LOL this guy has no idea what he is talking about
Listen to Mindfuc I don't feel like repeating what he he said. I personally don't keep a mother plant because i don't have the room, so I have been taking clones from clones...ect, who knows how many generations I'm on to now
He's not listening. Someone gave him some bad information. Ed Rosenthal would not have said anything about degeneration of the genome by taking clones from clones.
Okay fan boy, here it is one more time. If I take a recording of a tape (2nd gen), and then copy that, then copy that, etc. for many generations, I will get degradation because everytime I copy it, I'm introducing small variables and lose information and gain noise. That's the analog world.
If I take a digital file, oh, let's say a file of a Beatles song or a DVD of a popular movie. If I copy that, the copy will be the same, bit for bit as the original. That's why the RIAA and MPAA are so up-in-arms with illegal file sharing, the copies that are distributed and re-copied and re-distributed are identical in every way to the original, making it in essence, the exact same thing as the original.
This is the same with cloning. Think of the DNA of the plant the computer code. The clone will have the exact same characteristics as the mother plant, the same growth habit, disease resistance, fruit shape, flower color and yield potential. There will be no best clone out of the bunch genetically, that will be like asking me to pick the best of the copied DVD, it doesn't matter, they are all the same. The only variance will be how it is raised.
It is this reason that you might want to eventually replace a mother plant, because of stress or disease but it won't be because genetics have changed.