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Just got pictures from a farm. Bead nucleated FWP. They seemed to have achieve maximum luster in this newest harvest. Still small production for top quality rounds though. "Freshadama" term should be credited to PP (Jeremy).

Those screenshot photos in the original post don't seem to be legit natural purples. Seems to be treated Edisons. Or, it could be heavily edited video with filters over them. As for fading, natural colors fade but depends on harvest. Many of the mussels used are too young, and the younger the...

Why are the drilled holes bigger than the knots? Odd..

Classic FWP finishing that you see being sold in the wholesale trade. They didn't even bother to restring... No knots.

If you ever go to JCK/Tucson, you can visit us. I have those baby fwp you can see. All size from 2mm to 6mm.

Commercial quality in purple may saturate the market. But high quality purple with metallic overtones are very rare in each harvest. I personally believe this market is just getting started. As of right now, these colors below are all natural colors. Getting entire strands in uniform color is...

I don't have exact (or definite) age. But from what I understand, 2+ yr yield better and stronger color.

I'll share some photos here..

Yup, we've been collecting since the pandemic. These are all 10mm+

https://www.gia.edu/gems-gemology/summer-2024-gemnews-large-akoya-bead-cultured-pearls

Previous production using younger mollusk have the tendency to fade. This is true.. Also previous productions also have more birthmarks on pearls under the top layer which is very noticeable. Depending on the farm technology, production has gotten real good, but still scarce. Fading also depends...

These are not dyed and 100% natural color. Mollusk that are older (3yrs+) produce stronger nacre and color. I have no idea where your daughter bought her pearls, but if it faded, there are other underlying factors that might have caused it. P.S - Treated color pearls do not fade. The...

Update on current quality for small size

Haven't seen high quality Edison Pearls gets posted on here. We would like to share some photos of strands that we came across recently. Colors like this haven't reached the end consumers quite yet, but sooner or later it will be more available as farmers yield bigger harvest. P.s. If mods...

I'll try to get some more details from my farmer friend when I get on a call with him.

China consumers want certificate for everything they buy.

Plastic cards to display a strand like this weighs about 65g, not sure about cardboard, my guess would be 40g. The pearls are so big, they honestly don't look good in person.

To my knowledge and what I've seen, there's at least 15kg. Someone in Zhuji offered me a 8kg lot, which price made absolutely no sense. Many of them are sending individual pcs to Guild for lab certs and selling them by the pc.

Maybe I should mention, there was a recent harvest last last yr to earlier this year. Production of these are super lightweight compared to traditional bead nucleation. My sources told me that the inside is plastic nucleus (something that farmers were trying, and succeeded). As far as...