cloning question

lets say for instance i have plants i know are females and just before there ready to go into the flowering room i take clones from each. Would i be able to just grow the clones up to maturity and then just before there ready to go into flowering take clones from them and then keep repeating the same process or does taking clones from clones do something to the plant potency or anything for that matter? Ive tried to fine information on this and it seems theres alot of opinions out there, but i trust alot of the opinions from people here so figured id ask. I know keeping a mother is by far the best way but i just wanted to know if anyone has any experiance with this.

Thanks

Go for it. It's a good way to go if you don't have the lights or space for mothers. You can easily get the rhythm going doing it like you described.

Just make one rule. Take your clones, but *never* put yer veg plants into 12/12 until you have established roots on those clones. Being able to go on is the key...and if you do have a problem..it'll only set you back a few weeks.

And no..potency will not suffer. have fun

bt dt

I Believe taking clones from clones reduces potency.

heh like i said everyone has there own opinion on this matter. When i first even heard of cloning this idea came to mind and ive just always wondered if it would do something to the plant if you just kept taking clones from clones and imo i could kinda see how it would make it less potent beings you just taking something from one generation then from another generation, etc hense the strain weakening but i cant prove that and havent found any info that proves for sure it does or doesnt. Ill definetly keep a mother but i think im going to toy around with this as a little experiment and see what happens.
Thanks for the feed back guys

If clones lost potency, many of the (still) famous *clone-only* strains (some call them elite strains) would no longer be in favor and would not continue to be circulated amongst the Cannabis community (as they have been for decades...)

Arcata Trainwreck comes to mind immediately...

fwiw...I grew the same clone-only strain for over 10 years w/ no complaints from those who regularly found her in their pipe. None. Zip. Zilch. Nada.

It's very hard, fwiw, to keep a mother plant going for a long period of time without (a) disease (b) pests (c) loss of vigor (d) all cuts/shoots becoming "woody" and hard/impossible to clone

therefore..at SOME point the plant will need to be cycled through and another "mother" chosen from cuts taken from the mother....thus...it's the same process in the long run...cuts from cuts from cuts...

good luck with whatever you do

bt dt

Home_Grown said:

I Believe taking clones from clones reduces potency.

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wait, huh? Why, they are genetic equals. No degradation to quality as with a Xerox machine.

Thanks for the info beenthere, sounds like your experiance has answered my question, much appreciated

you do not lose potency, its already in the gene of the plant to produce whatever amount of potency, and also given optimal condition it will produce the max potency for that strain.

On another note, the plant do get weaker. Clones take on traits from the parent plant, so if you clone from a clone that came from a seeded mother plant that clone wouldn't have the stem structure, rootmass and stuff as that mother plant. From my experiences that is the only thing i see that degrades if you keep cloning a clone. Now that doesn't mean that your clone can get worst and worst, you can grow a clone to be very healthy and that clone from that healthy mother will take on that healthy trait.

I think thats how most people keep it going... grow and clone and keep the same strain instead of waisting your time with seeds and i was told each generation gets more addopted to its mothers evnoriment .. THE grow room

thats a nice thought

psyclone said:

thats a nice thought

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