What are the prospects for agarwood (qinan) cultivation? Let's hear Old He's views
As shown in the picture, the resin formation from currently cultivated qinan looks like this, and most cultivated qinan is green qinan.
Regarding qinan cultivation, Old He's views are as follows:
1. At present, the resin formed by cultivated qinan is already fairly thick, and there is no problem making beads from it. I believe it won't be long before qinan bracelets made from cultivated qinan resin hit the market.
2. Because the raw material price has dropped, the cost and the loss in making qinan beads are relatively easier to bear. A single wild qinan bracelet costs at least over a million; don't complain it's expensive, a million-yuan one may still be quite ordinary. A cultivated qinan bracelet is expected to come out at around a hundred thousand or so.
3. Consuming agarwood is mainly about savoring the fragrance. Cultivated qinan and wild qinan definitely differ, but the gap is not as huge as imagined.
4. Between the scarcity of wild resources and the high price of qinan, there will be an intermediate product to meet the people's ever-growing demand; after all, high-priced wild qinan is currently still a plaything for a minority. Just as not everyone can afford an iPhone X, so Xiaomi phones and Huawei phones come out.
5. If you want to discuss with Old He the pros and cons between wild qinan and cultivated qinan, please first confirm that you have smelled and tasted both and already have a clear idea of their respective merits and drawbacks. If you have only eaten wild pheasant, or only eaten farm-raised free-range chicken, then you cannot judge where the difference between the two lies.
6. Old He's current agarwood and agarwood products are still mainly wild agarwood. But as a practitioner in the agarwood industry, I closely follow the development trends of both wild agarwood and cultivated qinan; this is simply the industry sensitivity of a practitioner, not hype, and not smearing. Neither hyping new things nor demonizing them, but viewing them objectively.
Text/Old He heyidao1