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Will stressed clones ever be the same again?

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Will stressed clones ever be the same again?

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This is a crosspost that I just posted in the Infirmary. I got carried away though and would like to see if my question will harbour some light here also?

This is kind of a theoretical question. Some of you may have direct experience or more knowledge of plant growth/genetics than me (none :P).

Say you start with healthy clones. They have 3-6 nodes. Something environments happens. Whatever... cold temps, electricity went out, unskilled grower etc.

They got stressed and all newer growth is fucked: unproportionate growth of fan leaves (one larger than other), single-blade leaves, single blade couple with 3-blade leaves, what have you.

Are the clones worthless now? If you retune your environment correctly, will they grow the way they should from that point on? Or have their genetics/code been permanently damaged? Will they recover but the high will never be as good compared to how it originally was going to be?

Could all of these scenarios happen? Some? How does one find the right path, hopefully an alternative to the school of hard knocks, to this sort of knowledge?

I understand that learning to grow correctly from the start is the right direction, but in my opinion that leaves holes in one's knowledge.

Think of Actions and Effects. Add in Homeostasis. A well grown plant should be in Homeostasis. It is achieved and maintained through the correct Effects from the correct Actions, of which there may be only one, several, or more than one as a series for one particular aspect/goal/attribute. These Effects manifest themselves physically and biologically to maintain Homeostasis (plant health).

Homeostasis is sometimes easily fixed as seen in this forum... you add Cal-Mag for this, K for that, etc.

BUT, sometimes, can the homeostasis of some aspects of plants health ever be reached again past a point X?

AM I TOO FUCKIN HIGH BRO? or can someone point me in the right direction for this KNOWLEDGE and the KNOWLEDGE to know that a particular INFORMATION should be assimilated as a true KNOWLEDGE?
 
I have a Blueberry mother plant that is a few years old. I recently got a slacker friend set up with growing. Since he's too lazy to be a good gardener , he got spider mites and did nothing about it. He gave me a clone that infected my mother box. I tried a treatment that basically just about killed my mother plants.

My favorite, the Blueberry had just been trimmed and I threw the cuts in a jar for compost. After I realised the mother was going to die, I took those wilted cuts that had been without water for over 24 hours and soaked them in Root Excellerator and got 3 out of 4 to root. They are as vigorous as ever and I made a new mother and grew out 8 recently. No loss in vigor, health, potency etc. It can't be worse than cutting them, leaving them without water in a quart jar for over a day.

I have no over processed scientific jargon to explain it, but that has been my anecdotal experience.
 
Same experience here. We've got this Island Sweet Skunk clone going around denver between a few growers that I poped from seed (federation, RIP) circa 2004 that has been through hell and back. It's been re-vegetated from flowering more than once and who knows what else, stressed to all holy hell and back. I just got the cutting back after all of these years and it's still at least as vigorous as it was in '04. I would attribute this to the great breeding and stability of the blueberry and the ISS, as I've seen other strains go to a complete loss at the first sign of stress. Make sure you get the best genetics posible, it will save you some pains down the road.
 
stressed clones

i have had the opposite happen, about 10 years ago i found a great ak47 plant . i found out it was great by flowering it so when i cloned it , it was in bud. it took approx. 4-5 weeks for the clone to show any new growth. i grew this plant up made many clones and the new plants all tasted like mango but the killer buzz was gone(the mango taste was also new).stressing your clones can have detrimental effects on potency and flavor imo.



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