Why don't you all just try it on one plant? I did...now I do it on all of them. My plants have never been bushier or healthier. Take risks in life. It will set you apart when it all works out.
I think you missed the point of what I was saying. There are 2 ways apparently to make Polyploidys, from seed or from an established plant.
If you make one from an established plant, then from what I've read your results aren't guaranteed.
Plus from what I gather, you're not changing the whole plant, you're only changing the area that you treat. Which means that you wont be able to get seeds to make more polyploidys and if you pull a clone you'll probably just get a regular plant that has to be treated.
Add to that the risk to exposure to the colchicine every time you treat a plant.
And finally, you're smoking the buds from a plant that you changed at a molecular level. And any geneticist will tell you that you're crazy for doing that because when you change a plants genetics you should never ingest that plant in any manner. It's dangerous.
On the other hand if you make them from seeds then you are changing the genetics of the whole plant, roots & all.
You only risk exposure to the Colchicine once when mixing the Colchicine solution that you're going to use to water the seeds once. So there's a much lower risk of exposing yourself to a poison.
Since you're changing the genetics of the first plants, you shouldn't smoke from them but when you plant the seeds that they produce, the babies will be Polyploidys. And since the whole plant is a Polyploidy, the clones you pull will also be polyploidys. You never again have to treat anything unless you want to make super plants from a second strain so you have 2 strains of polyploidys.
So if you make them from seed rather than from an established plant you're guaranteed success, you limit the risk of exposure to Colchicine, the buds are safe to smoke, you can pull clones....... I just don't see the sense in making them any other way.
And I have a theory working that in the 60s growers were using the "from seed" method and everything was fine. Then someone got the idea to try to make them from established plants and to new growers that didn't know any better, the "from established plant" method was the only way, but it was just too much of a pain in the ass so it didn't catch on with the new growers. As the older growers got old & retired, the art got lost.
If you're wondering what art I'm talking about, this is how you make gold plants. Ever hear of Columbian Gold? Ever wonder why you can't find any today? Now you know.
