Edison Pearl’s secret ingredient has other pearl farmers flocking to China to learn more
If you’ve held an Edison pearl next to another cultured freshwater pearl, you might know what the fuss is about. Using relatively new technology in the history of pearl farming, Edison’s pearls are known for their extraordinary size, range of colors, and high quality. But while these qualities make them coveted, there’s something else that keeps farmers talking.
Type of cultured freshwater pearl, but the technology involved in growing Edison pearls is completely different. This difference has drawn countless South Sea and Tahitian pearl farmers to China to learn more. Why? Because of a simple thing called ‘spitting bead’, if you translate it directly from Chinese. ‘Spitting beads’, or rather, the rejection of implanted beads by oysters is when an oyster ‘spits out’ the core of the bead which is implanted to form a pearl.
Edison Pearls – The Freshwater Pearl Made Like Saltwater, Only Better
Most cultured freshwaters are tissue nucleated. A small piece of oyster tissue is implanted into the oyster and nacre is secreted to cover the tissue and form the pearl. They are made entirely of mother-of-pearl, but tend to be round to oval in shape.
On the other hand, almost all saltwater cultured pearls are nuclear pearls, which means that the pearl is not made entirely of mother-of-pearl: the inner core of the pearl consists of a central pearl. A small round bead is implanted in the oyster and nacre is secreted around this nucleus to form the pearl. The great part about this method is that the harvested pearls are (mostly) perfectly round.
Edison’s pearls are freshwater pearl necklaces, but they adopted the saltwater farming technique of using round beads to nucleate an oyster. However, they have greatly improved this technique.
The implantation of a nucleus of beads in a mollusk is not always successful. The mollusk may reject or ‘spit out’ the implanted pearl. In most beaded cultured pearls, this rejection rate is around 15-20% of all implanted pearls. But in Edison’s pearl cultivation in China, it is only about 5%, which clearly indicates the technical superiority of Edison’s cultivation technique.
If you’re a pearl farmer, that number makes a big difference to your production and eventually your profit.
WHAT IS THE SECRET INGREDIENT? How do Edison pearl farmers do it? With its secret ingredient: a pearl core activating liquid. This liquid consists of a complicated mixture of acids, antibiotics, and sterile filtered seawater. The core of the pearl is treated with drugs to reduce the chances of immune rejection and reduce the rate of infection after implantation. Cell migration and division within the oyster is stimulated, pearl sac formation is promoted, and the survival rate of oysters is increased. It also means that the thickness of the pearl layer is increased, resulting in a larger, higher quality formation.
In general, a greatly reduced ‘spit’ rate increases production for farmers. In fact, the treatment is so effective that it has increased the survival rate of pearl oysters by between 2.59 and 7.33%. It also increases the size of the pearl, and the rate of production of high-quality pearls from a harvest can be up to 12.55% higher.
CONCLUSION
This technology and the results achieved is one of the most important ways that Edison pearls have changed the face of pearl farming and the pearl industry, and it is no wonder that South Sea pearl farmers flock to in mass for more information about it.
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