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shemshemets's logic is flawed....yes you are better off taking from one mother....but.....there is no such thing as genetic mutation....in this senerio.....genetic drift or mutation happens when parent passes alleles recessive know as hitch hiker alleles that can present themselves at any time for any reason....it is not a mutation or genetically veering from .....he is right it isnt good practice to keep cloning over and over from the next host only high radiation and a few other highly improbable things can mutate dna/genetics
I would start a new clone....and let her grow for a while....
No....mutation can be random. Radiation / chemical exposure can speed things up forsure. Rarely plant breeders will use that technique (dangerous crapshoot if you ask me).
What I said is technically true, yet not practical at all.
What I said means that it is possible, but not likely. How likely is it that a branch of a plant will mutate with a specific mutation of less vigor, slim to none. But a mutation is a mutation and that could be anything. It could hinder photosynthesis, stomatal production, trichome production, terpene production....literally anything.
If two people have a clone from the same cloning lineage, IT IS POSSIBLE for those two plants to express differently in the same environment.
I do not believe that the environment influences these changes. I do not believe in the practicality of all of it, that this happens often. It may not be called genetic drift, it may just be mutation. But my logic is not flawed. If you clone a mutated branch you get a mutated plant.
Hope that is an easier to understand example. Now substitute variegation for [ ].