What's the longest amount of time you ran a clone??

[Meast21]

Mine is a NL and a Black Destroyer for going on 1.5 years now.

 

[oill]

Mine is a NL and a Black Destroyer for going on 1.5 years now.

Herd of people with 15 year old plants

 

[RancidDude]

Herd of people with 15 year old plants

My black chernobyl cut I've had since I was 16 obviously I've had to resource it a time or two but only from the people I gave it too.

 

[Zett66]

My black chernobyl cut I've had since I was 16 obviously I've had to resource it a time or two but only from the people I gave it too.

What do you mean by you had to resource it?

 

[Leeski]

I believe Jim (coots) had the one for over 20 years may be 30 can’t remember

 

[oill]

My black chernobyl cut I've had since I was 16 obviously I've had to resource it a time or two but only from the people I gave it too.

How old are you? If your 17 thats not that impressive!

 

[thenotsoesoteric]

The blue dream cut is at least 20 years old, same with triangle kush.

 

[ChronicWonders.]

I believe Jim (coots) had the one for over 20 years may be 30 can’t remember

36 years since 1984 I do reckon...and he’s still growing it.

 

[Mganj]

I’m a noob and this isn’t answering the question, but I want to air out I grief I had about a high times article lol. It said that a plant could theoretically live forever, and if one starts to get less healthy, you can use one of its clones. No organism lives forever. Everytime a cell reproduces, it loses dna, and so we have a limited lifetime from that.

I don’t doubt the accounts here, and I also wonder what the maximum life can be

 

[thenotsoesoteric]

I’m a noob and this isn’t answering the question, but I want to air out I grief I had about a high times article lol. It said that a plant could theoretically live forever, and if one starts to get less healthy, you can use one of its clones. No organism lives forever. Everytime a cell reproduces, it loses dna, and so we have a limited lifetime from that.

I don’t doubt the accounts here, and I also wonder what the maximum life can be

Bananas all come from clones from the same plant for roughly 60+ years from the Cavendish variety we have now. But the old gross Michael variety they cloned for a hundred years or more if I'm not mistaken. They only lost the clone because fungus disease but not due to age.

The Joshua tree in California is like 10,000 years old and still alive.

Plants can last a while.

 

[BDGrows]

I’m a noob and this isn’t answering the question, but I want to air out I grief I had about a high times article lol. It said that a plant could theoretically live forever, and if one starts to get less healthy, you can use one of its clones. No organism lives forever. Everytime a cell reproduces, it loses dna, and so we have a limited lifetime from that.

I don’t doubt the accounts here, and I also wonder what the maximum life can be

if memory serves... as long as the telomeres are intact and dont have too much degradation, an organism can live for a really long time...

 

[thenotsoesoteric]

My bad, the oldest tree Methuselah, a Joshua tree in cali is 4500 years old. Not 10,000 but still hell of a long time.

 

[spliffendz]

RKS 25yrs

 

[RancidDude]

How old are you? If your 17 thats not that impressive!

33

 

[Star Dog]

I’m a noob and this isn’t answering the question, but I want to air out I grief I had about a high times article lol. It said that a plant could theoretically live forever, and if one starts to get less healthy, you can use one of its clones. No organism lives forever. Everytime a cell reproduces, it loses dna, and so we have a limited lifetime from that.

I don’t doubt the accounts here, and I also wonder what the maximum life can be

My understanding is your correct in that dna is lost over time afaik that's the reason behind root pruning mothers rather than just taking a fresh clone.

 

[BleedsGreen]

I have a Lemon OG I have been growing steadily since 2008, not quite the time on some of these but I am pretty proud of it none the less, even kept her through a mite infestation.

 

[Moabfighter]

Can someone give me a quick rundown how to keep a cut going forever without getting too big?

I have a biscotti clone I paid a nice penny for and I want to keep it. Just take a clone off the mom, flower the mom, let the clone grow, take a clone, flower that precious clone once its too big, forever?

 

[MSS]

OG kush from 1999 to 2018.

 

[SATIVAZOID ROBOT]

Dj short blueberry crossed to AK47..... Personally been running it since 2014....It was given to me and was probably 5 yrs old

 

[ChronicWonders.]

Can someone give me a quick rundown how to keep a cut going forever without getting too big?

I have a biscotti clone I paid a nice penny for and I want to keep it. Just take a clone off the mom, flower the mom, let the clone grow, take a clone, flower that precious clone once its too big, forever?

Precisely.