i'm just saying that if it played that big of a roll in things, then things like clone only strains after a year or so wouldn't be desirable, and we all know that this is not true..
you can't possibly expect me to believe that every single clone out there of say, hmm, let's say girl scout cookies as that's a hot clone only atm, comes from the same exact mother plant..
so this tells me that gsc must be a multi generation plant of pretty epic proportions, and i've never heard anyone say that their gsc wasn't as good as another's so long as they are both grown well, and are of the same cut..
but of course environmental factors will play a roll in pretty much anything.. that's not to be blamed on cloning though imo, the same thing could and does happen in seed grows.. two different people could by the same exact pack of seeds, let's say herijuana as it's pretty much considered an inbred line, so being inbred, it should be super stable and only one or maybe 2 different pheno's.. yet even though there is only one or two phenos, you can still get more genotypes, which are much more dependent on environmental factors..