clone generations

[bluntman_77]

how many generations can you clone for ? Ie clone of a clone .... etc . Do you always have to go back to the mother plant ?

 

I will only have 1 grow chamber so no room to keep a motherplant going . So I was planning to grow from seed , hopefully get a good plant to clone , fill the chanmber with those clones and then continue that cycle a few times rather than go back to seed each time .

 

sorry if this is a simple question or I am missing something , I did a quick search and checked stuff like the overgrow faq but didnt find anything

 

thanks :smoke

[F420]

It very slowly will star to yeild less etc, but it will take a few years to notice any change.

 

A mother plant is nice if you have room, but Ive never had one.

[bluntman_77]

thanks heaps . I thought there was degredation due to repeated cloning but I thought it was much sooner than that . few years is cool

[WantDaChronic]

clones of clones are the same as the original plant it came from but like ferengi said, it will take a serious amount of time....

 

my advice would be to let a few of the clones grow into decent size plants then take more cuttings from them...if u constantly take clones from small plants they end up deformed and really weird, seen it happen :thumbdown

 

hope your grow works out for ya :smoke

[Pure]

you can clone a defect though so alwasy choose healthy robust choices

 

once a defect is cloned it's a bitch if not impossible to remove dependign on what it is in the case of hermies I have heard of peopel reccomending stressing it out of multiple cuttings and keep the ones hat stay female this would obiously take allot of the problem away but it's still dormant in there to be cloned again

 

 

just pick health specimines and you'll be sweet

[Luke Skywalker]

Provided the clonee is healthy and you don't take "sports" which are branches of mutations which can be passed on sexually or asexually only through that branch, there is no clone degredation over time.

 

Many plants are mass cloned regularly, there are millions upon millions of clones of some popular cultivars taken constantly, with no degredation, except for the occasional mutant plants which may be less than 1 in a hundred thousand or more. These can be positive or negative mutations, depending on what part of the plant is affected.

 

A small mother room is not hard to set up. I maintain about 5 strains for myself with a small aluminium frame panda room and 130-200mm pots. It has a fluoro light for illumination, (between 20 and 48w, depending on my finances) and a small 125mm vent fan for exhaust, as well as a 15cm desk fan for air movement within the space. Using a small "Smith Grow Valve", which is kinda like a simple smart valve, (you can get them from growth technology) I can maintain a wet/dry cycle for them, and they are kept under a long day cycle, (22/2) to maintain them in vegetative growth.

 

Think of it like bonsai.

 

Anyway, you can certainly take clones off your main plant and then use these for your following generations, you may have to hold onto said clones for a while as it's far easier and quicker to take clones off a vegging plant rather than a flowering one. And besides, you'll likely want a new strain after a while, with a couple of mothers you have an option available to grow out something different in stone or flavour.

 

Hope that helps.