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Keep everything healthy, keep a backup at a different location. Then should be no problem keeping a mother for 10-20-30 years. Keep making healthy clones and select the best ones to carry on the genetics.So what about decendants of the mothers...? A clone of a clone of a clone of a clone and so on.. let the mothers flower and harvest after a period of time and bring new mothers from the same first plant?
Is the majority thinking that these will just keep losing thc levels or is that just a seed company's sales strategy?
Point being shit happens so take steps to protect yourself. Take the information for what it is. A warning and advice for what CAN happen.
One example: Grower has been growing 15years with the same clone. He takes clones from his flowering plants. Went good until one time his plants got pm, his clones were not as healthy and not as many rooted. He went and flowered them and yield was down. Slowly thing went downhill, the worker kept getting blamed for the problems. Testing the thc shows it was 13-15%
Went back to papa and got a healthy clone to start a new mom. Back on track. Testing at 17-19% again.
Steephilll want you to buy testing.
Testing can help you determine a problem like this.
Again the point is: shit happens so backup your genetics.
Do you think genetics are degrading? Test it out.
Do your suspect your quality is going down and you are doing the same things that brought you success before? Test.
Tools for the grower to establish a baseline to test against. A Warning for the educated to use to protect themselves.
Seems like your missing the point.I do not believe this at all, and this is why. Do you like OG kush? SFV, Tahoe, or Larry? How about Sour Diesel? Blue Dream? Afgoo? GDP? All of these are extremely old strains yet they are identical in every way shape and fashion since I started growing them years ago. The flavor, look, yield, and high are all equal. IF there is a drift, or a genetic mutation due to age, then I would say that it is very weak at best because of the lack of noticeable difference from when I first grew them until now.
I have seen old strains such as U.k. cheese do much better outside than inside, but I have no past with the cheese as it is from the U.k. and has only been here since 06 so it may never have grown inside that well. I will take unhealthy plants outside in order to get them back to healthy again if necessary.....not sure if this affects the genetics though.
Don't take care of your mothers and let em go to shit, give em some pest and mold, now stick it outside. It is a plant outside with the same problems. Is not a miracle cure. Will help a plant bounce back, but your missing the point.
IMHo the whole point is to know that It is a problem that CAN happen so take steps to avoid it. Does not mean it ALWAYS happens.
if a grower was dilligent in keeping genetics healthy and/or backups then odds of it happening are low.
Took 8 years for me to see it happen. Same clone has been around since 99. I got it back and she is back to normal.
Root aphids or broad mites can soak the vigor pout of a plant. One grower had all of his mothers die except this genetic. So phenotype is also a big part of long term vigor.
You got a plant you tested at the lab and it was lower thc, so you stuck it outside and then was able to get the thc % back up?That always works for me too
Don't taze me broscience!