Clones are not exact replicas of the mother. Each branch has mutations known as races. Clones taken from the upper third of the plant have more mutations than middle, and the middle has slightly less mutations than the bottom. I have a scholarly article about it somewhere. Pretty interesting. The margins of profit in the legal industry is very very slim. Seeds outperform clones, that's a fact. To stay afloat, it's just dumb to rely on clones because they are slower, and varied. Some clones do better than others. That's why so many legal operations dont last long. There is the ones that simply outperform them as their profits dry up and they can no longer operate without hemorrhaging money. Eventually they go under. To see one in business for 7, 10 years is rare. And the ones that do, dont farm clones.