Clones from clones or mother plants

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rdgx34

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Instead of keeping mother plants, can I just have clones then veg them and right before i put them into flower i take more clones.

Then once those clones are ready to go into flower i take more clones from those?

Is there a difference from that and keeping mother plants?
 
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rdgx34

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So it makes no difference if i just keep cloning clones instead of keeping mother plants?

it wont lose any genetics?
 
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rdgx34

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I read where that if you take clones from clones itll slowly lose its genetics.

Like if you take a page from a book and copy that page, then you copy the copy, then copy that copy, etc....

It wont be as clear and good as the orginal copy.

Im just trying to clear things up because if its the same both ways, It would help me alot and save alot of room if i could just keep cloning clones.
 
sublimed

sublimed

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yea, there's no problem with it. genetics are slightly more embedded than words on a page lol.
 
Dirtyboy

Dirtyboy

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rdgx34 said:
I read where that if you take clones from clones itll slowly lose its genetics.

Like if you take a page from a book and copy that page, then you copy the copy, then copy that copy, etc....

It wont be as clear and good as the orginal copy.

Im just trying to clear things up because if its the same both ways, It would help me alot and save alot of room if i could just keep cloning clones.
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A clone is a clone. They will not change.
 
CaliMedicated

CaliMedicated

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ive heard differant... it isnt as potent with the more you clone from a clone and so on. thats the beauty of a mother. the strain will stay consistant. i think if you do it a couple times i dont see much of a differance, but several times down the road not too sure about. i may be wrong.. but why would you have a mother plant then besides always have the same strain
 
Proph

Proph

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i have heard the other way. I dont think people are understanding CLONE, it is the exact same as the mother. Jorge even says this in his book about professional growers who never notice a change in potency and they will be 20x cloned.
 
Dirtyboy

Dirtyboy

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Proph said:
i have heard the other way. I dont think people are understanding CLONE, it is the exact same as the mother. Jorge even says this in his book about professional growers who never notice a change in potency and they will be 20x cloned.
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Dat is da troof bro
That is the truth brother.
 
smalltownDill

smalltownDill

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theres nothing wrong from cloning from clone ive done it up to fifteen tim just experimenting and noyhing changed they were stiil as stong as the original they just get bushier
 
slingblade

slingblade

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clones take 2 weeks to establish so if you got mother let it bush nget 1000s of clones anytime like i do 100 at a time check out my new strain armageddon wwidows
 
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vertexx

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I think one keeps the original mother plant
more for emotional reasons.
Who could kill off their dear old mother anyway ? :)
One gets attached you know.
And yes, 20x cloning is still as potent.
 
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DaGambler

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... i -have- heard / read that after 30 generations or so you may see some loss of potency or plants start to grow strange.

if you think about it... we all have a time clock, and when are number is up and our minutes have all been counted, we die. now a plant isn't the same... but there is still degradation and bits of the double helix continue to 'fray at the ends'.

so i can imagine that eventually the genetics would no longer be pristine.

but, in further answer of your question, i don't wish to keep mother plants either. i just clone from clones right before switching the veggies to flower. then they stay under floro's until the flower room is empty and ready for them.
 
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