Cuttings

and, damn.. clementine isn't just fluent in english, they are clearly a native speaker... "one to a pair of hours..." very typical phrase used. I work simply for that to of your time for best results! you no want super happy family #1 time?

just grew several clones out from a plant that was re-cloned many times over... given away to a friend, whatever he did with it in meantime, then back to me for the cuttings i used.. Came out the same as always. some variation existed but more attributable to being in a corner or too close to a fan etc... even cloning a clone.. the only danger is that you take a damged part off the plant -- possibly unseen initially. No problem.. when regenerating always take more than 1 cutting and only use the healthy ones... genetic degradation is not sped up by taking a clone. the danger is what you cut off has a defect.. which again is occuring at same rate relative to age from germination. the thing about regenerated plants being weaker... i'd be curious if that is a true epigenetic effect or not... lots of times people's intuition about this stuff is later proven wrong, and that's what we have for evidence on it as far as i know.. how often was an experience tainted because not enough time was give, for example... ppl that didn't know any better but adding to a potential myth like flushing at end of harvest or the marketing term "organic" being causal of anything, especially what is often attributed to it with no shame, lol.

appreciated guys thanks muchly first time doing cuts tbh put them straight into 4 inch pots filled with canna proplus rooted in 16 days with only bnq rooting gel

Just like humans plant cells age so the cutting is a "Clone" of the mother and will be the same age. Plant age is always based on when the seed was germinated not when the cutting happened, As a plant gets older it can slow down, But this will be over years / decades.

Hello. It will about 5 years of taking clipping/clones this way before you notice any difference. If you take clippings during the veg state then the growing tip will just keep growing and it will be about 5 years before you notice any difference. Where this system breaks down faster is if you take clippings after you have turned over to flowering. Then the plants will degrade faster, but not at the rate you've been told. Good for you to take the time to get the experience of taking clones. It's a bit tricky at times. Try liquid seaweed to help with the stress on the little clippings, about 10 ml per gallon of water will help. Chuck.

Epigenetics is real, but not to this extent, i don't think. Most breeders and genetics labs take what is called a, "mother clone." This mother clone turns into the mother plant that they use to breed, after letting the plant it was clipped from finish flowering, and the breeder sampled it to see if that's what he/she was looking for. Now, if you clone from that mother and turn it into a new mother plant, say, 10 times, then yes. It will have become weaker, but i'm not sure if it effects yield. I know making a cultivar too inbred will effect yield and possibly make the next generation of seeds sterile, but I'm not too sure about epigenetics doing that. It's still fairly new to the cannabis world and people are researching it to a better extent.