Question about clones and mother plant

Vinny.ca

Vinny.ca

Active Member
A bit of background. I started this grow just as an experiment, wanted to see how much I can LST a plant versus topping. I grew this thing at almost 70° angle out of the pot and then it ended up curling up when I couldn’t tie it down any further. At that time I thought I’ve never grown clones before after five years of gardening and thought I’d give it a go. Took three cuttings and three survived, and I can’t believe how robust they were. Same feeding ratio, same water, same pH everything‘s the same as a mother plant but the one thing I noticed is that the clones are a healthy, deep, rich green, while the mother plant is that light green. mother showed a bit of deficiency at first, but I corrected it. The mother plant was 96 days old when I flipped it in the flower and the clones were about 26 days old since potting. The clones have been doing great ever since. I left them alone, no training of any kind no topping just want to let them grow natural and their buds are fatter and healthier than the mother plant clearly. Anyway, my question is why are the clones so much greener than the mother plant when it’s the same genes, environment, same pH, feeding, everything?

Critical Kush by Barney’s Farm
Growing in coco using Gaia Green organic dry amendments
All under my Photontek, 465w Pro.
As of today, day 30 of flower

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CaliRootz88

CaliRootz88

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Maybe A few reasons I can think of:

If the mother was from seed it’s hungrier.
At the same feed the clones don’t need as much but by doing the same they’re showing more abundance of nutes in the leaves.

A seed can behave different than the clone. Sometimes a strain from clone end flower looks different when I grow it from seed. Even depending on what time of year (winter, summer). My highs and low temps fluctuate depending on what time of year I’m growing. The buds, the growth, what it wants, or doesn’t want. So many variables can go into it. When it comes to keeping genetics around I like to run clones a few times to make sure it’s stable and clones etc. my point is clones can tell you more than the mother from seed. I wouldn’t worry too much about the differences. As long as you like to run it and learn what the clones want you’re good to go.
 
Vinny.ca

Vinny.ca

Active Member
CaliRootz88 said:
Maybe A few reasons I can think of:

If the mother was from seed it’s hungrier.
At the same feed the clones don’t need as much but by doing the same they’re showing more abundance of nutes in the leaves.

A seed can behave different than the clone. Sometimes a strain from clone end flower looks different when I grow it from seed. Even depending on what time of year (winter, summer). My highs and low temps fluctuate depending on what time of year I’m growing. The buds, the growth, what it wants, or doesn’t want. So many variables can go into it. When it comes to keeping genetics around I like to run clones a few times to make sure it’s stable and clones etc. my point is clones can tell you more than the mother from seed. I wouldn’t worry too much about the differences. As long as you like to run it and learn what the clones want you’re good to go.
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Mother was from seed.
 
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