I grew 4 Barneys Farm Critical Kush Feminised Seeds And I picked the best Pheno out of the 4 I grew. Now my question is if I continue to clone a clone instead of just keeping a mother plant will the clones loose potency and would the buds start to look different from another. When I grow from seed I keep different plants in different jars but since I cloned the phono I like I wanted to know will the bud stay the same ??? \n\n
Yes the more you clone a clone the weaker it's going to get. You should take a clone from your first cut and put it in a 3 gallon pot and make it a bonsai mother by selectively taking cuttlings and shaping her to keep her small and then you can throw her in a closet somewhere with a low wattage bulb and never take up any growing space.
But you can clone a clone with no noticeable degradation, normally. I've kept a clone and flowered the mother lots of times, when they get too big. I've read that you can go out three generations, but I've only gone the two. I wouldn't be afraid to keep that clone as a mother.
Around 62 and I layer my cut. I'll cut tops at 62 and the next layer 10 days later and so on and so on.
That's why you make a bonsai mother out of her. Basically like a bonsai tree trimming the branches back to keep her from getting too big and every once in awhile you will have to trim the roots back. When cloning a clone you are asking for a herm. I wouldn't risk it in my garden.
I have yet to have a clone hermie like that, but I know its possible. I agree that keeping the mother as small as possible is the best way. ..but I will admit that I don't always stay on top of my mothers like I should.
clones don't lose noticeable potency over time...I have a strain that's over 15 years old now, I've had it for 5 years myself. I've cloned and re-cloned to make a new mother plant probably 50 times...and I don't notice any difference in potency. It's actually my highest yielding, fastest rooting, most vigorous strain...I guess that's why it's been around so long When I run a seed plant through flower I usually get better results the second run with a clone. I sometimes give strains a second chance through flower as a clone...
superskunk from sensi seeds....I have several other strains that I've had for a few years now...I never worry about them getting weaker and I don't keep track of the number of times they've been re-cloned.
That has not been the case in my experience but that's awesome you're having that kinda luck. I have noticed the same thing with flowering a seed vs a clone so I've gotten to the point where I won't flower a seed just clone from it and run a few thru flower and see if I like the strain. I've read the reason for this is because a clone has a much bigger root mass than a seed plant.
same here.. never noticed a loss in potency or anything negative at all in taking clones off of clones after years. I rarely keep a proper mom anymore...
I don't really keep a mother as such, I take a few clones then put the donor plant in to flower while the clone roots and then vegges. It's huge by the time the donor has finished flowering and then that one can then be cloned and put in to flower. I have done this countless times and the bud has been exactly the same every time. A clone is genetically the same plant, there is no reason it should react any differently to the same environment
Sounds good but not the case when I tried it. I noticed at about the 7th generation problems with hermies so I just cut all the balls off that I seen then she got to the point where it was harder and harder to get a good style clone so I said fuck it and moved on. Not sure which seed company I got the beans from but it was supposedly an OG kush. Great bud the whole way through the generations just became a weaker plant with time I'm gunna plant me a seed and grow a marijuana money tree
Not style but stable clone. Fuckin auto correct I'm gunna plant me a seed and grow a marijuana money tree
I took 8 cuttings from Northern Lights auto and they all rooted and took to their pots beautifully. I dropped the temperature to 60 Fahrenheit and left the lights on 24/7.....they returned to veg state and bounded and grew 10 inches in two weeks with moderate applications of fertilizer. I thought they would jump to flower right away but they stayed and then around the same time as the mother plant, they started to flower. They went to 3 feet and flowered beautifully. During the veg state I took 20 more cuttings and they are doing the same thing. I was told you couldn't clone autos but this method seems to work and I used cuttings from 6 mother plants grown from 6 seeds bought from different supplier so the chances of getting fems and males was lowered or eliminated. I hope that helps someone trying to work through cloning autos........you have to keep the temperature at 65 for the first couple weeks and then raise it to warmer climes to initiate the growing to flower stage.