how many clones can a clone clone clone?
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The word "Clone" is, somewhat, misleading. A clone isn't like a copy you make on a Xerox machine (in which case, there are bound to be small errors - which keep getting amplified as the process repeats itself - resulting in a badly distorted image, several copies down the road). Although this is exactly how some people imagine the cloning process to operate - distortion and all!
What really happens in the cloning process is that you are not making a "copy" of anything at all - you are actually taking part of the "Mother" plant and allowing it to continue growing. Clones are just disconnected parts of the original plant; nothing more - nothing less. There is no degradation or change in clones because they are part of the same plant!
shhhmokey
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So lets say i take 1 clone... then i take another. Then another off the new clone... and so on. Never using the same clone more then once but using the new clone everytime to make another new 1...
Things should be ok?
Haha does that make any sence to u? Lol
memnoch
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Ive kept the same strain in my tent for over 3 years now. Im yet to see any lack of growth. Hell my current chrystal plant that i have in veg. i took it 35 days into flowering took a lil while to reveg but she is coming along nicely. Its the plant on the right and the cuttings in my cloner are Chrystal as well.
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Yeah, lots of people do it that way. You're just planting clones taken from your last batch of clones - etc. - etc. It's like perpetual cloning from the plants in veg - as opposed to using conventional Mother plants. Both ways work!
shorelineOG
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Taking a clone of a clone is healthier than keeping a mother alive for years. Genetic drift is nonsense and I have worked with 20 year old clone only strains that are a thousand " generations" and still the same. I like to flower my mothers and veg my new mothers while the other room flowers. Perfect system for a sea of green.
shhhmokey
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Very nice!! Thanks for the info!
rshackleferd
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Ive revegged my mother over 10+ times, still same wonder buds each time. Trick is to flush it several times before starting over again.