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Freshwater pearls - grown in freshwater mussels. Freshwater pearls are much smaller and less expensive to harvest than saltwater pearls. One mussel can yield upwards of twenty or more pearls in each harvest. The turnaround time for freshwater pearls is much shorter as well, with only one and a half to two years to grow each crop of peasrls.