A clone only plant is a distinct line of genetics, it's like cloning a person, as soon as you cross it with someone - or even itself - it loses what it originally was.
To make a clone seed you either dose it with feminising agents thus making it grow seeds with hermy traits or you cross it with something that is more or less identical. But whatever you do you STILL don't have exactly what the clone offered. I don't care what you say whose done or owt, they haven't done it.
I took some Exodus Cheese to 'dam last time i was there to compare.
The only come that came close was HGF's who said he got it from somewhere in the UK.
And Franco in my opinion is just a hacker, not a breeder, as is GHS in its entirety. They are as bland and un-uniform as Nirvana to be honest.
Arjan is even breeding by terpens now rather than the high and ease to grow, he's literally growing and breeding by flavour!
And while i like MJ that tastes awesome, i would like a breeder to preserve and not milk the MJ market for all its worth to be honest.
The seed strains are nothing like the clones, and anyone with the clone will tell you this. Go look at iCMag or Uk420 for endless discussions between people who have the clones and people who have the seeds and how different they are.
Sure they might grow and look the same, smell a bit the same, but the high is always different.
As for serial cloning it's alright if you keep a Bonsai Mum and have done for years, as all clones have the same cell age as they're all coming from the same mum.
Explanation;
Hey Arnold! A plant that is propagated by serially cloning, will age much much faster at the cellular level than a plant that is held in semi stasis from its puberty age and constantly renewed from old tissue. ie mother plants are a way of holding back aging. Most of the research has in fact been done with elite forestry genetic lines, even their stock clone lines age beyond where cuttings are of commercially viable any longer, the cells having lost vigour and weakened beyond recall.
So at the moment with cannabis, bonsai mothers are the best method I know of, of holding its age back. Once a clone line has aged to a point that it is getting senescent, nothing can rejuvenate it, like all things the ability of cells to replicate is not finite. Plants are different to animal life in that a stem has many incipient dormant buds, these buds meristem is fixed at the age it was formed. So If I have a 5 year old mum and I force a dormant bud in the old bark to develop the shoot produced is 5 years younger age wise at the cell level than the tips would be at the top of the plant. This also holds true to a certain extent with the normal propagation methods used with bonsai mothers. ie the tips are constantly cut back to normal semi dormant nodes, these develop into new shoots that are aged from when they were formed. I hope you can translate this to what happens with cuttings that are produced by the serial method without me having to go into detail.
Some people are very confused about this and think that tissue culture can rejuvenate a clone line. This is not true re the cellular age level of any meristem is the cellular age, it can’t be changed. What tissue culture can do is produce a plant completely free of virus vectors. This make the plants take on a new vigour and life at the full potential for what their base cell age is.
I hope this helps.
The above is taken from a growing site i frequent.
As for blues i'll keep my clone over the seed any day to be honest
Would love to discuss this over some fat doobies in 'dam Boner!
You're not there next weekend are ya? 6 days baby!
