由種子開始種植的薰衣草
你知道嗎？
65% 法國普羅旺斯的（真正）薰衣草 都去了 Young Living 那裡！😱
Did you know?
Young Living is getting 65% of (true) lavender in Provence! 😱
圖片資料來源：Nicolas Landel
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Why do we have the best #Lavender is a question I’m asked almost everyday on the farm and there is a simple answer:
在農場裏，我幾乎每天都被問到，為什麼我們擁有最好的薰
The Lavender we grow at Young Living comes from Seeds, making each of our plant unique and different in the field, different color, size, smell and of course making a different oil. As you can see in the picture, I cut stems from 5 plants next to each other and none are alike. This is how nature intended it. Growing from seed is called a population and now a days it is not as common as you would think.
在Young Living農場的薰衣草是由種子開始種植的，種植出每
Another way to grow lavender would be to select one plant in a field (often the biggest one to have a bigger yield) and to do stem cuttings, in other words to clone it and make a field out of this clone. This would allow you to get a lot more oil per field but not a better quality.
另一個種植薰衣草的方法是在田間選取一棵（通常是選取最
Clonal Lavender are all identical in size, shape and smell, producing the same oil, as in a Population lavender each plant produces a different oil. When we harvest our Population lavender and distill it we bring all these differences together making the best quality lavender oil.
無性繁殖薰衣草的大小、形狀及香味都能夠一致地生產出相
We also worry about the sustainability of our Lavender at Young Living, when you collect seeds like we do, the plants transmits information letting them evolve over time adapting to changes in soil, weather and environment.
我們也會擔心Young Living薰衣草的可持續性，當你像我們一樣採收種子
As with clonal lavender this isn’t possible it will always remain exactly the same as it was when it was selected (most of the clonal lavender in France were selected over 50 years ago) since then everything has changed except these clones.
而無性繁殖薰衣草是不可能這樣的，它們總是保持與被選取
Today we are one of the last companies to grow and believe in Population Lavender thanks to our Founder D. Gary Young, almost everyone else has moved to a clonal lavender for the better yields. We follow our standard Seed to Seal and always will.
時至今日，我們是其中一家仍然堅持選擇種子繁殖薰衣草的
【True Lavender & Hybrid Lavindin】http://bit.ly/33IOajW
【More about Lavender & Lavindin】http://bit.ly/2MqHAJi
⁉ Lavindin和Lavender的分別 ⁉
🔹 Lavindin is hybrid︱Lavindin是混種的
🔹 Across between true lavender (Lavendula augustifolia) and spike lavender (Lavendula latifolia)︱是介乎真正薰衣草和尖峰薰衣草之
🔹 A much bigger plant︱比較大棵
🔹 The flowers are pointy︱花朵尖尖的 (Lavender flowers are more squared︱Lavender的花朵比較方形的)
🔹 Have little branches︱有些分枝的
🔹 Seeds can’t have babies︱不能繁殖的
🔹 Can’t be plant︱不能種植的
🔹 The seeds are not fertile︱種子不肥沃
🔹 Have to clone it︱需要再人工繁殖
🔹 Field always look exactly the same︱田地都是一式一樣的
🔹 Same color︱花朵的顏色都是一樣的
🔹 Looks very nice but not the best︱看上去很美麗但質量不是最好的
🔹 Very camphorous︱香味很嗆鼻的
⁉ Why does Young Living grow both Lavender and Lavindin ⁉
🔸 Young Living grows mostly Lavender︱Young Living主要是種植Lavender
🔸 Lavender is the strongest plant comes from the seeds︱Lavender是由種子種出最強質量的
🔸 Not from cloning or propagating︱不是經人工繁殖或傳種的
🔸 Lavender is always 100% pure Lavender oil︱Lavender 是100% 純薰衣草蒸餾而成的
🔸 We do have some Lavandin，just use in some blends with very small quantities, e.g. Purification, but not used in Lavender oil︱我們也有部份Lavindin，只應用於某些複
🔸 Not a lot of fertilizers / herbicides︱沒有添加很多肥料和除草劑
🔸 We distilled it the whole time and in correct way to ensure all the modecules have a well balanced oil︱我們會用正確的方法蒸餾，確保保存所有平衡有效
🔸 While other industries would distill it very quickly say 30mins in order to save money on distillation and they don’t have heavy modecule︱其他精油公司可能為了節省成本而以快
