Boss Fu smiled, "Definitely not extinct, but there are very few trees that are old enough to become adults." ”

Yu Yao nodded, "I'm talking about mature old trees." ”

Wild Hainan Huanghuali can really grow into wood, faster than wild red sandalwood, but it also takes about a hundred years to grow a thick enough "grid", that is, heartwood, and the white wood between the bark and heartwood, called sapwood, is not usable.

Wild huanghuali starts from the seedlings, and it takes more than ten or twenty years to start growing heartwood, and fifty or sixty years of heartwood is not necessarily how thick; especially avocado, fifty or sixty years old wild trees, may only grow more than ten centimeters thick heartwood. If you want to take heartwood, such as furniture materials, it has to be more than 100 years, or even more than 300 years.

Wild Huanghuali trees, which are less than 50 years old, will have a low heartwood yield even if they look rough enough on the outside.

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 if it is manual intervention, it will take more than 30 years for Huanghuali to extract materials, and it is not that the tree is old enough to have heartwood.

Nowadays, there are still many people who climb the mountains and mountains to find mature wild old trees, but few have harvested. The main thing they could find was the remnants of roots and stumps, which were caused by the fact that the earlier years were not very thorough. Such roots and stumps are not easy to find now, and it is common to return empty-handed after ten days and a half of mountains and mountains.

What is consumed in the market now is mainly the materials that have been hoarded in the past, and there are also some old furniture or demolition waste materials from old buildings.

Boss Fu listened to what Yu Yao said, but smiled again, "It's hard to find mature old trees, but since they are wild, who dares to say that they must be extinct?"

Yu Yao was stunned for a moment.

This boss Fu really makes sense. Wild, not controlled by man, continuous mountains, so many rare places where people are rare, even if you have been looking for felling before, maybe there will be fish that have slipped through the net?!

Boss Fu continued, "To tell you the truth, in some villages, some people's slopes and backyards are actually still there, although most of them have not yet become mature, but the finished ones are not zero. ”

When Yu Yao heard this, he couldn't help but smile and asked, "It seems that you must know that there are talents." ”

"Yes. Boss Fu didn't hide it, "Thirty miles away from here, there is a village called Qichakou, there is a sloping land, there are more than a dozen wild sea yellow trees, three of which have a considerable thickness of the main trunk, and it can be said that they are complete." ”

"Huh, how do you know that?"

"My grandfather is in Qichakou Village. Boss Fu introduced, "This piece of slope is relatively partial, behind a hill, there is a deep ditch on the periphery, and the trees are relatively dense, so you have to turn around the hill in front of you if you want to go over." About thirty years ago, Wang Dayan of the village contracted this mountain. In the woods of this sloping land, there are more than a dozen huanghuali trees, and the trunks of three of them are no longer thin. ”

Yu Yao nodded, "I understand, this Wang Dayan didn't clean up the slope, and this batch of huanghuali left behind and now grows up." And since the trunk of the three trees you mentioned is thick enough, then Wang Dayan is afraid that he has been studying and waiting for the price to sell, right?"

"I don't know what Wang Dayan used to think, but he has been preparing to sell trees since years ago. And someone has seen it a few years ago, maybe the price has not been negotiated, and it has not been cut down! If you are interested, I will give you an address and contact information, you can also go and see it!"

"This ······" Yu Yao groaned, "If you want to buy this, you must be buying a live tree to gamble?"

"Well, I heard that's the case. You are really knowledgeable, our locals call the heartwood "grid", called the gambling grid, and the outsiders call this a lot of gambling wood. ”

Jade gambling stone, sea yellow gambling grid.

Although there are many stories on the Internet now, the gambling stone is said to be magical, but those who really understand the gambling stone know that in the current market, most of them are clear materials, even if it is all gambling materials, experts according to the characteristics of the skin, with the help of strong flashlights and other tools, there is still an analytical basis;

However, there is much more uncertainty when it comes to gambling on wood, especially in the face of a living tree.

First of all, determining the age of the tree is a level, because you can't hurt the tree, 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, relatively stout, the age of the tree may not be long, especially when gambling on the wood, it is often necessary to face the age of the tree for decades or even more than 100 years, and the difference between it is twenty or thirty years, which is not so easy to distinguish.

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

Therefore, there is the roughness of the finished wood, and there may not be the "grid" of the finished wood, but to determine whether it can be cut down, it can only be based on the roughness of the trunk.

When gambling on a living tree, most people estimate the age of the tree, generally observing the trunk from head to toe, according to one-year, two-year, and three-year-old branches······ Extrapolating from this. At the same time, the thicker the better.

According to the thickness and estimated age of the tree, there is a rough number, and then it is necessary to bear the situation of whether the heartwood grows regularly. It is not uncommon for wild huanghuali to have irregular heartwood growth.

It is not unheard of for a wild old tree with a trunk diameter of twenty or thirty centimeters to finally produce heartwood with the thickness of chopsticks.

Even if you don't bet on a live tree, you can bet on a whole tree after cutting, and the heartwood section is exposed at both ends, but the heartwood in the middle is broken, or it suddenly becomes thinner.

The first time Yu Yao went to the porcelain capital, on the day he met Xiao Ying in the antique city, in front of a shop called Tanli Pavilion, someone gambled on a piece of sea yellow wood in public, and the result was barely compensated, but the heartwood sawn in the middle was much finer than the two ends exposed.

Therefore, this Wang Dayan has three mature live trees in his hands, and he does not sell the materials after cutting and sawing them himself, but directly sells the live trees to gamble, which is cost-effective.

If you cut and sawn it yourself, there is indeed a possibility that the heartwood is good, which is more profitable than letting people gamble on the tree, but at the same time, the possibility of losing is not small. Whether it is a profit or a loss, it is almost half open.

And Bao Shu gambles on the price, and earns more safely. The point is that he is not a tree yet, he has three trees, and it is estimated that even he himself will not believe that he can earn one of them. Selling the tree directly to let the buyer gamble on the price is offsetting the risk evenly.

Seeing that Yu Yao was a little hesitant, Boss Fu smiled, "This is indeed risky, if you like Huanghuali, you can also go to the county market's wood market to have a look, but the market will not open until the eighth day of the first month." ”

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

Before dinner, Yu Yao was a little tired, so he half-lay on the bed and flipped through the circle of friends.

As a result, I saw a set of photos sent by Lin Fengcao, one of which turned out to be the gate of the nearby national forest park!