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Chapter 403 Three Wild Huanghuali Trees

Boss Fu smiled, "It's definitely not extinct, but there are very few trees that are old enough to become useful."

Yu Yao nodded, "I'm talking about a mature old tree."

The wild Hainan huanghuali can really become useful, faster than the wild red sandalwood, but it takes about a hundred years to grow a thick enough "grid", that is, the heartwood; the white wood between the bark and the heartwood is called sapwood. is not available.

Counting from the seedlings of wild huanghuali, it takes more than ten or twenty years to grow the heartwood, and the heartwood is not necessarily thick in five or sixty years; especially avocado, the wild old tree in five or sixty years may only grow a dozen centimeters thick heartwood.If you want to use big materials, such as furniture materials, it must be more than 20 years old, or even more than 60 years old.

For wild huanghuali trees that are less than 50 years old, the yield rate of heartwood will be very low even if the appearance is thick enough.

At the same time, since 2000, hundreds of thousands of huanghuali trees have been planted on the whole island of Hainan, and cultivation and protection measures have been taken, which can be regarded as "semi-wild".

But even with human intervention, it will take more than 30 years to obtain materials for huanghuali, and it does not necessarily mean that the trees are old enough to have heartwood.

Today, there are still many people looking for old wild trees that can be useful through mountains and mountains, but very few have gained anything.What they could find were mainly some residual tree roots and stumps, which were caused by incomplete logging in the early years.Such tree roots and stumps are not easy to find nowadays, and it is not uncommon for them to return empty-handed after trekking over mountains and mountains for ten and a half months.

What is consumed in the market now is mainly the materials hoarded in the past, as well as some old furniture or scraps from the demolition of old buildings.

After hearing what Yu Yao said, Boss Fu smiled again, "It's hard to find mature old trees, but since it's wild, who dares to say that it will be extinct?"

Yu Yao froze for a moment.

What the boss said really makes sense.In the wild, it is not controlled by human beings, with continuous mountains and rare places where there are so many people. Even if you have been looking for logging before, maybe there will be fish that slip through the net? !

Boss Fu went on to say, "To tell you the truth, in some villages, some people have sloping fields and backyards. In fact, there are still some, although most of them have not yet matured; but the number of successful people is not zero."

Hearing this, Yu Yao couldn't help laughing and asked, "It seems that you must know that there are people who are successful."

"Yes." Boss Fu did not hide anything, "Thirty miles away from here, there is a village called Qichakou. There is a sloping field where there are more than a dozen wild sea yellow trees, and three of them have quite thick trunks. It can be said to be a success.”

"Ah? How do you know so clearly?"

"My grandfather is in Qichakou Village." Boss Fu introduced, "This sloping land is relatively remote. Behind a hill, there is a deep ditch on the periphery, and the trees are relatively dense. If you want to go there, you have to turn around from the front hill. About 30 Years ago, Wang Dayan from the village contracted this mountain. In the woods on this slope, there are more than a dozen huanghuali trees, and the trunks of three trees were not too small at that time."

Yu Yao nodded, "I see, this Wang Dayan didn't clear up that slope, and these huanghuali were left behind and are now growing. And the trunks of the three trees you mentioned are already thick enough. I'm afraid Wang Big Eye has been researching it all the time, so it's up for grabs, right?"

"I don't know what Wang Dayan planned before, but he started to sell the tree years ago. And someone has seen it years ago, maybe the price has not been negotiated, and he hasn't cut it down yet! If you are interested , I will give you an address and contact information, you can go and have a look too!"

"This..." Yu Yao pondered, "If you want to buy this, you must be buying a live tree?"

"Well, I heard that's the case. You are really knowledgeable. We locals call heartwood "Ge" and Gambling Ge, and outsiders often call it Gambling Wood."

Emerald bets on stones, sea yellow bets on grid.

Although there are many stories and novels on the Internet that describe stone gambling as miraculous, anyone who really understands stone gambling knows that most of the current market is clear material, even if it is all gambling material. Tools such as light flashlights still have an analytical basis; the probability of cutting up by luck is extremely low, similar to winning the lottery jackpot.

However, gambling with wood, especially with a living tree, has more uncertainties than betting with stones.

First of all, determining the age of the tree is a hurdle, because you can't hurt the tree, and you can't see the growth rings.

The height and thickness of the trunk have a certain relationship with the age of the tree, but it is not inevitable. If it is relatively thick, the age of the tree may not necessarily be long. Especially when gambling with wood, you often have to face decades or even more than a hundred years. The age of the tree, with a difference of 30 to [-] years, is not so easy to distinguish.

Moreover, due to various reasons such as the environment and rain, the shapes of trees are different. Some trees grow tall but not thick, and some have too many branches and forks, and the main trunk is "weakened".

Therefore, the thickness of the tree does not necessarily mean the "grid" of the tree, but it can only be determined according to the thickness of the trunk.

When gambling on live trees, most people estimate the age of the tree, usually by observing the trunk from head to toe, and calculating based on the annual branches, two-year-old branches, and three-year-old branches... Based on this.At the same time, the thicker the better.

According to the thickness and the calculated age of the tree, there is roughly a number, and then we have to bear the situation of whether the heartwood grows regularly.In wild huanghuali, the heartwood grows irregularly, which is not uncommon.

It is not uncommon for wild old trees with a trunk diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters to finally produce heartwood as thick as chopsticks.

Even if it is not a live tree, it is possible to bet on a felled whole tree, with the heartwood section exposed at both ends, but the heartwood in the middle is broken or suddenly becomes thinner.

The first time Yu Yao came to Porcelain City, on the day he met Xiao Ying in the Antique City, in front of a shop called Tanliguan, someone bet on a piece of sea yellow wood in public, and the result was barely paid, but the middle was sawed open. The heartwood is also much thinner than that exposed at the ends.

Therefore, this Wang Dayan has three living trees in his hand. Instead of cutting and sawing them and selling them, he sells the living trees directly to gamble on the price, which is a cost-effective calculation.

If you cut and saw it by yourself, there is indeed a possibility that the heartwood is good, which is more profitable than letting someone wrap the tree to gamble; but at the same time, the possibility of losing is not small.Whether it is a profit or a loss, it is almost [-]/[-].

But the tree-packing gamble is more secure.The point is that he is not just one tree, he has three trees, and he probably doesn't even believe that all of them can make money.Selling the tree directly makes the buyer gamble, which is to offset the risk on average.

Boss Fu saw that Yu Yao hesitated, and smiled, "This is indeed risky. If you like huanghuali, you can also go to the wood market in the county town, but the market will not open until the eighth day of the lunar new year."

Yu Yao nodded, thanked him and went back to his room to settle down and rest.

Before dinner time, Yu Yao was a little tired, so he half-lyed on the bed and flipped through Moments.

As a result, I saw a group of photos posted by Lin Fengcao, one of which was the gate of the nearby National Forest Park!
　Completing the third change is not breaking my promise.Thank you for your understanding, but since I said it, I should try my best to do it.It's just that it's almost midnight, and it's still too late, so I'm sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)