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Its because it only has genes from the mom.
I apology. I was just saying that I top mine because I like a bush. I actually was just answering the part about. Besides height/ space control. I agree that they throw alternating nodes because of maturity.
Naw bro, clones have alternating nodes because they are mature, thats what happens to plants from seeds once they are about 5 weeks old. So a clones that was taken off a 4 week old mother then rooted and grown at your house for another 3 weeks is gonna be 7 weeks old, which is more then enough time for the nodes to start alternating. It happens to all cannabis plants and it just means they are mature enough to flower.
You top clones for the same reason you top seedlings, to get more bushy plants so more bud sites have even light. Thats why I top , because its easier to tie down branches and create an even canopy.
By mom i mean mother plant the cutting is from...the cutting only has the genes from the mother plant correct?
It doesn't have a new father to generate new genotype possibilities.
Although it does still have the mother plant's father genes, it just cant pull the slot machine lever and get another set of genotype possibility.
It doesn't get to do the punnet square process, its the exact square the mom(mother plant, not the mother plants mom) had. Otherwise you could keep cloning and get diff pheno every time.
clones have alternating nodes from the start(assuming you cloned a mature plant).
Its counter intuitive to top a clone(unless you don't have room to train, then i just call that pruning)
It wont make it bush, just designate the next apical node to become the top(which is only 1 branch)
if it were from a seed, you could top early enough where its not giving alternating node and you will see the apical node shoot 2 branches off, creating the bush.
source:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ucilIjrex5cC&printsec=frontcover&dq=handbook of plant science&source=bl&ots=MNxtBgcHsU&sig=OA5_xTBzyuqO2oefolPxAiTbxuo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RQMmUMvLDcWe2AXj1IGwDg&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=handbook of plant science&f=false
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