gemology and travel: Grafting South Sea cultured pearls

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Uploaded by on Jan 8, 2008

Grafting is a surgical implantation of a shell nucleus and a tissue graft (a small piece of mantle tissue) into the pearl oyster in order to produce south sea cultured pearls. It is performed at the pearl farm with a selected donor oyster which will be sacrificed and a host oyster.

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