Quote Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
M'kay.... so what's your feeling here?
Regarding what? Although I don't usually link-hop, I'm familiar with the post, as it's been around almost as long as my post(s) regarding bonsai techniques and re-vegging. One of 'em is in my signature.

Quote Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
I've only been working this method for a few months,... with great success!
I've been doing it for a few years. Also, with great success. :thumbsup:




Quote Originally Posted by canniwhatsis
These plants fall into the "Overcloned" category, so even tho I'm cloning a mum that's never seen flowering cycle there's gonna be some kind of genetic drift?
Not necessarily genetic drift. More like old age and different reactions to different (or ongoing) enviornmental conditions. Like how the plant will use/process/store nutrients, how it deals with being consistently overfed or underfed, which micronutrients it's lacking or choking-on, drifting light spectrums from aging bulbs (or new bulbs versus old bulbs, or different manufacturers...) or power outages during lights-on...stuff like that.

Let's say you had two seeds of equal quality and stability, from the same mother, plucked at the same time. Plant one, and keep her as a mom for a couple of years. Then, plant the other seed, bring her to her preflower stage, and check the difference between the growth habits, the quality, density and quantity of trichomes, internode spacing, leaf structure/thickness/size, aroma's...and likely the plants will not look like sisters. Good or bad, the plants adapt to their enviornment.

I'm pretty sure the genetic drift occurs during the reproductive stage, when seeds are made. But the enviornment determines how the plant(s) will react in any given situation, and is not limited to one singular response.