When it comes to pearls, I believe everyone is familiar with them, even if they have not worn them, must have seen their elders, relatives, or friends wear them. When we want to buy pearls, have we thought about how pearls are formed and how many years it takes for pearls to grow? Some say it takes 3 years to cultivate pearls, and others say it takes more than ten years. Who is accurate, and who is fake? What is the truth? Let's find out how long it takes for pearls to form.
Some people describe mother-of-pearl-producing pearls as human mothers producing children. This is an excellent gestation process; it represents a mother's love and cherish. Its growth time is not only the "October pregnancy" of human beings, but it takes longer years to form a pearl. There are many kinds of pearls and different shapes because of their different sizes and shapes and therefore different prices. Pearl jewelry is ordinary, but do you know how long it takes for a pearl to mature? Today we will talk about how long it takes for pearls to grow.
In short, the formation of pearls is divided into two cycles: the seedling stage and the pearl culture stage.
It takes about 2.5-3 years for the seedling period to grow mature oysters, and then the foreign body core is inserted into the mature oysters. After being stimulated by foreign bodies, the oysters will secrete a nacre, which wraps the implanted foreign bodies layer by layer. The pearls are secreted 3 times a day, the thickness of each layer of secretion is only 0.3μm, the thickness of the nacre cultivated in one year is only about 0.3mm, and it takes about 3 years to grow to a thickness of 1mm to gem-level pearls. After three years of secreting pearls, there are thousands of layers, so it takes 5-6 years to form a pearl from seedling to pearl cultivation. During this growth process, pearl farmers must carry out various management to continuously maintain water quality and feed nutrition. Check the health of the mother oysters at regular intervals, etc., until winter is the best time to harvest pearls. Generally, the survival rate of mother oysters is only 50%, and only 40% of them can successfully raise pearls, and only 10% of the harvested pearls can be used as jewelry; the remaining 30% can be used as handicraft jewelry, and the remaining 60% Can only be used for cosmetics and medicines. Among the 1000 pearls, they were finally selected to make about 2 pearl necklaces that can reach the first level, about 8 pieces that can reach the second level, and about 15 pieces (about 40cm) that can reach the third level. The rest can only be used as handicrafts, Cosmetics, or drugs. In 1000 pearls, the perfect pearls that can reach more than 7mm and have a perfect round luster, brilliant and flawless, are sometimes even less than 10, and the slightly inferior ones will not exceed 30-50.
Therefore, it can be seen that cultivating pearls is an arduous undertaking. It generally takes about 6 years or even longer, from seedling to harvesting. The larger the pearl and the thicker the pearl, the less the output will be. Therefore, a large, round pearl with relatively good quality is not something that can be easily obtained but a treasure that can only be obtained at the right time and place. Seeing this, I believe we can understand why the price of pearls with a difference of 1 mm varies so much. So now you know how expensive pearls are.After learning that the formation of pearls takes so long, I believe you will love it even more because pearls are vital and spiritual organic jewelry, the birth of life, and it is also the gem that people get after hard work.
