Cloning Question: Please Read!

Ok, so here is my question. Lets say you get a seed, say from a seedbank, or amazing grower, whatever. Its a reliable and awesome seed. Now you plant this seed, and its a female. You cut clones off of it, and keep one of the clones for the mother, and bloom the original. Beautiful plant, no hermies. Then, however long later, said mother is overgrown and as such put to bloom but not before more cuttings are taken. Now, one of these clones is setup to be the mother, and this cycle repeats. So my question is, is a copy of a copy of a copy gonna a)lower potency and/or yield, and/or b)increase the chance for the plant to go hermie?

That wil be fine and it will still be an exact copy.

Im not doin it its kind of more like a hypothetical. I read somewhere that it stretches out the genetic code and that will cause it to lower its resistance to stresses causing it to more likely herm, and ive also heard about clones taking on the memory of stresses from mothers as well. But like ive said Iheard, and then I read that other thing somewhere and dont quite know if it was reputable or not. I cant even remember where i read it....

As long as your mother stays healthy your clones will never loose their potency.Some mothers get genetic drift after years but useually stressing your mom causes the drift

Yes you can clone clones and clone clones from the clones clones. I take two cuttings per plant just before flower instead of keeping a mother plant.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Epigenetics In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence, hence the name epi- (Greek: επί- over, above) -genetics. These changes may remain through cell divisions for the remainder of the cell's life and may also last for multiple generations. However, there is no change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism;[1] instead, non-genetic factors cause the organism's genes to behave (or "express themselves") differently.[2]

You would have to clone for a lifetime to try and see differences from genetic drift, and even that may not be enough to cause any change.

You wouldn't likely see genetic drift unless you reverted it after it had flowered and even then not necessarily.

Cells have a predetermined ammount of replications they will make and the genetic line will eventually suffer from senesence and wear out, lose its youthfull vibrance. I've found that keeping the original sprouted plant is best and the clones taken from that mom will last out longer. I've also noticed that if you flower the mother she'll express a stronger vigor that the clones of her dont. The clone's buds might be stretchier. I dont know why, it might even be metaphysical thing in that the sprouted plant contains the original spark and stronger chi but that is obviouslly a speculation.

Anyway turning a clone into a mom is fine.

As long as your cloning is sterile. The only thing carrying to your new gens would be disease if you were sloppy

Very informative. Thank you very much everybody.