@Traxx187 - I'm keeping the original seed plant for my mom. I like original seed plants as moms better than using clones for a mom. Although I have used clones from the original seed mom to keep a strain going once the original mom gets too old. I just rather stay as close to the seed mom as I can.
It probably doesn't make much difference, but that's how I've always done it.
I've found that if I keep making a mom from clone from clone from clone etc...that eventually the strain changes a little bit. I think I've read something before that the slight changes are called genetic drift? I think other things can affect small changes too, like how healthy the mom was before being cloned and possibly where on the plant the clone came from (top branch vs bottom branch).
Maybe I'm just crazy and it makes no difference at all? If someone with more knowledge would chime in, I'm definitely listening.