Quote Originally Posted by personified
It would be a tough decision to give them away. On one hand it would build customer loyalty in the other it would detract from paying the bills. Especially if that clone is the basis for the rest of the patients grow.

The one thing I keep thinking while it is economical to grow your own there will always be those who do not have a green thumb or do not have the space.

That would be the niche that the producers will fill.
It has been my experience that just before inducing flowering that there is a profusion of "sucker branches" on a cannabis plant. These are usually used to start clones. There can be as many as 6-8 or more of each plant that is about 12" high, depenting on internode spacing. These are usually trimmed off because they will not get light, and to promote top growth. If'n you are allowd 95 plants, aand you trim 4 lower branches off each one before flowering, you are going to have a lot of clones to give away.

Just by trimming the plants and inducing rooting you are instantly going to exceed federal and state limits. Four, 10 week old mothers from seed can easily produce 24 clones each 10 days. If you were in a producers shoes you would have 2 choices...throw them away or give them away...I dont think I would risk rooting them or keeping them around, and they wont last long in the refrigerator (10 days, maybe more?).

So it really makes sense to give them away. It looks like any patient with a growing licence might be able to do that. I was under the impression that they couldn't. If this is true then anyone that needs clones can certainly get them easily. If we can trade seeds and clones there will be no problem with access to medicine very soon. I would gladly grow four big females and take regular clones off them. If I took 16 clones each ten days, I could legally produce and give away one batch each ten days. I could theoretically supply the 4 plant limit to four patients each ten days and be able to do that four to six times while plants were in vegetive growth, with no decrease in my yeild.

...One more reason for a cooperative of card carrying patients!