Cuttings of clones - Good idea ?

[fhydro]

I've got 4 AK47 clones in veg. Is it a good idea to take cuttings from one of them to grow it in a mother plant to take cuttings and flower them?
Fhydro

[cnd411]

I've got 4 AK47 clones in veg. Is it a good idea to take cuttings from one of them to grow it in a mother plant to take cuttings and flower them?
Fhydro

It is a good idea because you know for sure you will have all female for your next run and so on.

[Easy Roller]

Thats what i'm hearing..some guys only take cuttings from a plant 3 times, therefore to keep a champions genes alive one must take cutting from well vegged clones..i think

[Sativagrowin]

The way I do it is to take the origional seeds and plant them. Then I take a cutting from each of them and once they're rooted I flower them (cloning for sex). These clones are discarded and so are the main plants that are determined to be males. Then I have nice mother plants that have never been flowered and regenerated to take the rest of my clones from.

I have taken clones from other clones before and haven't really noticed any real drawbacks to it. I'm not a geneticist but I'm sure there would be something wrong on a genetic level but I'll leave that for someone else to explain. If the smokes good it was a success imo. :D

I dont like regenerating my flowered females because I always end up with bud rot on the plant matter that I leave behind to regen. I take off as much bud but if I took it all I wouldn't have much left to get the plant going again. Since I've been doing it the way I mentioned above I don't have to worry about it anymore.

Hope this helps,
Laterz

[latewood]

Yes, you could but; Don't take cuttings from your clones in veg to make mother...Just take the strongest clone...remove it from the rest...and keep it in perpetual veg...take cuttings when you are ready...You already have your mother...just pick :smokin:

[fhydro]

Thank guys for inputs.
Fhydro

[arcticspyder]

I have kept the same mother plant alive for over three years I have taken thousands clones over that time. Always get the same excellent quality and taste.

[Herbus]

I've read alot about genetic drift. This is when you take a clone from a clone and then do this like a whole hell of alot of times. I personally have never gotten past 10 or so because I want to try something new. In my opinion you would need to live to be 1000 years old and cloning all of those years before you would see any adverse effects. Like 1 in 100 billion cells makes a mistake or some huge number like that. I can remember reading in one of ED's books about genetic drift and that he recommended starting seeds every year, I think the only ones who benefit from that are the seed companies.

Herbus