Does Cloning Yield an IDENTICAL Genetic Copy?

[shoney45]

....or is cloning like it is in mycology? That is to say that when you clone a mushroom, you increase the odds of getting the trait(s) that you are looking to clone...but you are also getting a lot of other genetics in there.

The reason that I am wondering is that I am on my second grow now. Of the seeds I planted for the first grow, two survived and blossomed into two different phenotypes. I cloned several of each and now am growing those out.
Well, there are four of one of the phenotypes. ONE of those four plants is doing extremely well. It began flowering in under two weeks. It has about another month to finish and is getting coated in trichomes all over. None of the other of that specific phenotype however, are performing like that. They are growing tall and stretching like crazy (NYCD), but only the one is prolifically budding and developing trichomes. So now I have seven clones from that specific plant cloned and ready for the next grow.

The grow space is small at 4' x 3'. So conditions can't be varying a lot from place to place. All the plants recieve nutrients with the exact same ppm from the exact same pitcher. So I am unsure why the others are not flowering as successfully as the one since they were all cloned from the same plant.

 

[cbtwohundread]

Some plants/clones are stronger than others.,.,.,thats why u selectivly cho0se plants to clone/breed with lovely traits.,.and those traits will and should be passed on.,.,and the generation after gen.,.,should get stronger and stronger.,.and it will mature

 

[lopezri]

Maybe it's just because of where you selected your clones from the mother, perhaps. If you took a foot from a body, and you took a hand from the same body and started growing them in the exact same conditions, would you expect them to grow at equally the same rate and have the same characteristics?

 

[tusseltussel]

a clone is an exact copy a clone from a clone from a clone its all the same its a clone. i hace seen a plant that hrmed have a perfect female clone from a branch that didnt herm

 

[lopezri]

They are exact copies genetically as far as DNA is concerned. The will basically all have the same codes in their DNA that tell them how to grow, what to do, etc. but because there are no two plants that can be in the exact same space at the same time (one would have to be next to the other in our universe) then they will never have the exact same conditions and because of human error will never have the exact same experiences. Just like if you cloned a person. . . they can never be exactly identical because they will never have the exact same experiences even if they are together ALL the time.

 

[shoney45]

Some plants/clones are stronger than others.,.,.,thats why u selectivly cho0se plants to clone/breed with lovely traits.,.and those traits will and should be passed on.,.,and the generation after gen.,.,should get stronger and stronger.,.and it will mature

Cool, that is good to know. That is pretty much the way cloning works with mycology (even though cloning doesn't yield identical copies in that case). So, your comment was kind of what I was hoping to hear. All seven clones that are in veg now were taken from that good plant. We shall see I guess.

 

[shoney45]

They are exact copies genetically as far as DNA is concerned. The will basically all have the same codes in their DNA that tell them how to grow, what to do, etc. but because there are no two plants that can be in the exact same space at the same time (one would have to be next to the other in our universe) then they will never have the exact same conditions and because of human error will never have the exact same experiences. Just like if you cloned a person. . . they can never be exactly identical because they will never have the exact same experiences even if they are together ALL the time.

Reading your post gave me the same feeling I get when I have been struggling with a difficult math problem for a long time, and then when I see the answer it was so obvious that I want to just kick myself in the teeth. It is so obvious. I guess I was thinking too simplistically about the whole thing.