The state Department of Agriculture estimates that up to half of the state's cut flower industry has been wiped out.
There has been a slight increase in tropical flower prices at Watanabe Floral, according to general manager Monty Pereira.
"Some of the things that we're used to getting locally, we're going to have to go around the world to try and source out and get," he said. "Then, of course, maile has been the biggest problem because it's just too dangerous for pickers to go up and pick in the Volcano area."