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06-25-2008, 06:54 AM #14Senior Member
Clone longetivity
Originally Posted by Orzy
Originally Posted by Orzy
Sorry Orzie but I disagree!!!
A mother plant for 15 Yr?
The longest a mother is ever kept on my Veg is a Yr to a YR and a 1/2. Even a mother can not stay around for to long w/o fading off....
Through light manipulation we can now keep a pot plant alive indefinitely. There's a grower not too far away that has kept a plant alive for over 5 years.
But he doesn't clone from it. And it never flowers; it's in perpetual veg. It's more like a house plant.
The reason that clones lose vigor over time IMO is because marijuana is an annual. Without artificial sources of light it will complete it's life cycle and die in less than a year.
When you keep a donor plant alive for over a year, you are doing something unnatural, something no marijuana plant experienced through millions of years of evolution.
The plant you take clones from IS NOT a mother plant. Mother denotes (usually sexual) reproduction, and that's not what's happening when you take clones. The plant you take clones from is more correctly called a donor plant.
When you take a clone from a donor, that new plant, the clone, you shouldn't think of it as an exact reproduction of the donor plant--it IS the donor plant. You cut a piece of the donor plant off but it still is that plant.
So the plant, kept alive for longer than nature intended, loses vigor, which affects both yield and potency.
The difference in opinion is probably due to the fact that it affects some strains quicker than others.
If you take a original F1 seed to start a mother what is better to keep the original or take cutting from cuttings on and on? Fifth sixth generations loose there potency for sure....
Each time you flower the seedling and take cuttings over and over the plant looses it's potency and that is a fact in my Bible....
It even gets more technical then that I'm just blazed out I hope STINK stops by and gets technical on the issue...
People Reveg plants and they loose potency IMO.
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