do clones loose their quality if you keep cloneing one

[easy jimmy]

if you have a clone and you keep cloneing over and over. will the quality go down ..take a cut and then clone that cut and clone that cut

will this reduce quality please help ,,,,,,View attachment 2958542

 

[Ringsixty]

I say NO

 

[Yodaweed]

From what I've heard , yes.

 

[CouchlockOR]

I have a clone that has been cloned by me from a clone for the past 6 years. Once a month. Absolutely no change. It was cloned by a friend of mine for several years before me. Same predictable results. Same growth pattern same yield. It takes thousands of years to for evolution to happen. Don't worry about it.

 

[tip top toker]

No .

 

[BustinScales510]

No, it is totally fine and can be done for a long time with no loss of vigor or quality. The thing that is important though is that good robust cuttings should be taken from a healthy mother plant.

If a mother plant is in poor health, like grown with not enough light, is root bound, or isnt thinned out and pruned down from time to time, it will just have spindly stressed out shoots on it. When those are cloned and grown out they produce feeble plants that dont do very well.

I think thats what people attribute "genetic drift" to (the loss of vigor and quality), but as long as new mother plants are always started with fat healthy clones that process can be kept going for many years.

 

[mr sunshine]

No ............

 

[Nizza]

here's a great article http://www.kushmagazine.com/knowledge-base/grow/growers-grove-jade-kine/2263-cloney-baloney-can-genetics-degrade-or-do-plants-just-lose-momentum

 

[adower]

No. The only time the quality might go down is if you don't have a healthy mother.

 

[Grojak]

Quality no, vigor yes.... most of the true breeders will pheno hunt every few years to maintain the quality and vigor of a breeding mom.

 

[Cascadian]

No, it is totally fine and can be done for a long time with no loss of vigor or quality. The thing that is important though is that good robust cuttings should be taken from a healthy mother plant.

If a mother plant is in poor health, like grown with not enough light, is root bound, or isnt thinned out and pruned down from time to time, it will just have spindly stressed out shoots on it. When those are cloned and grown out they produce feeble plants that dont do very well.

I think thats what people attribute "genetic drift" to (the loss of vigor and quality), but as long as new mother plants are always started with fat healthy clones that process can be kept going for many years.

I agree the answer is generally no. But, I have seen first hand a grower who always flowered the healthiest clones from the mother plant and used the weaker ones for a new mother. Even with that kind of abuse it took 3 years before some hermie problems started to develop.

If you use common sense and take cutting from younger shoots on healthy mothers for the next generation there won't be a problem.