I am aware of the problems. No matter who or where I get a clone from I wash off the roots and medium. I almost never take mothers because they can hids more bugs. I dip the roots in
AVID and rinse the hell out of the roots, then I transplant into fresh coco. If it's rockwool, I rip all the rockwool off. You'd be surprised how many times I have found root aphids and thanked god I checked. After all that I give the plants a dip in
AVID. I wait a week and then give them a dip in
Eagle 20. Then I never mess with those nasty chemicals again. It's the only safe way. I learned my lesson after getting Spider mites that over wintered in soil that I didn't wash the roots off. Destroyed my whole grow. I plan to do a write up on it next time I get a clone.
I have access to lots of clones. I can get the original OG kush but I want the True OG. I won't get the True at a clone shop unless someone gives me the word that's it's real.