clone of a clone, of a clone, of a clone

I ran my White Widow I had for over 4 years, and was out to around 15 generations in that time with great results. I don't believe that time and generations will automatically make the genetics degrade. I do believe that if you abuse and stress the plants along the way it will damage them, and they may never return to 100%.

A friend of mine had a bubba kush plant he kept for about 1.5 years. I got a cut in the begginning, and flowered it out but lost the mom, and got another cut near the end of the time. When I flowered that plant it had changed how it grew, and yeilded very poorly. I asked him what was up, he said it was all from the same genetics, but that in the time he had it, it had been abused basically. He moved, transplanted, cloned off, chopped back, and prolly worst of all froze the genetics over that time, so I didn't doubt all that was why it grew different.

intenseneal said:

You dont want to clone a clone more that 3-4 times. The plant will start to loose vigor and will not grow as fast or be as healthy. Personal experience.

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Soooo wrong...I have clone of a clone of a clone that's over 20yrs doin it...The key always take your starts from the healthiest plants

I dont think the plant loses any vigor or potency with generations of cloning, I think we grow a tolerance to strains.

That's perfectly fine and many do just that. But the timing doesn't work for those of us with more of a commercial operation. Count the clone's first day in dirt as day 1. I FIM her between weeks 2 and 3 and by week 4 she is 18-24 inches. Perfect size to go into my flowering room. But, very few strains are able to give up viable clones when the "mom" is less than 5 or 6 weeks. That's why I designate my bushiest new plant as a mother plant. I put her in a larger pot and take 2 clones a week from her for 3-5 weeks. Depending on how much of that strain I want. That way I'm not trying to get clones rooted that are cut from donors too young. BigSteve.

You can indeed clone a clone a clkone etc.. the dna doesnt change when you clone it. if you couldnt do that tissue culture wouldnt work ecuase it is doing exactly that oftgen times, but much much more frequently than with plants out of tissue culture..

Obviously none of you have seen multiplicity "afraid the leg has to come off Steve" lol.... seriously though I dont see why a 5th gen clone or whatever would be different. I do have a friend back home that gave up on NL#5 because he said it wasnt as good as it used to be. I think he just has become more tolerant of the strain or he messed something up

Just read in Mel Frank's indoor growers guide testing was done by scientists and reported no "running out" of thc but the clones finished 2-3 weeks later than the mother. I have never tried clones so I cant offer any personal experience about flower time being longer for the clones.