The Pro’s And Con’s Of Cloning Cannabis

With the ever increasing demand for the the best possible yields and potency larger cannabis growing houses and cultivators have turned to cloning cannabis to keep costs low

The process of cloning a cannabis plant involves creating an exact copy of the DNA structure of only the healthiest and most robust female plants. This article explains how these large cannabis growing houses can keep up with the supply while cutting out the costs of expensive seed

Cannabis Cloning Benefits

There are many benefits to cloning cannabis especially in the growing and competitive market that is developing. New seeds are never planted when cloning so the germination period is completely skipped out. The clones are taken from what we call the mother plant. Once a clone is taken it starts the growing process from the rooting stage saving time, care and equipment and ultimately gets to the flowing stage much quicker. The real money saver is no seeds ever have to be bought or produced to keep crops continuously growing.

By shortening the life cycle of a cannabis plant via cloning cultivators can produce bigger yields per year. The opportunities for creating more harvests vastly increases especially in artificial growing conditions where everything is fully monitored and controlled. In theory one could have a continuous harvest on the go all year round. Even outdoor cannabis growing operations could squeeze in an extra harvest without much effort.

Only the most robust and highest yielding female plants will be used as mother plants. A mother plant could in theory be kept in a vegetative state and be used for clones permanently but studies suggest the more a mother plant is cloned the more there is a chance of the resulting plants being hermaphrodites. Therefore as you are creating exact copies of your best plants mother plants should be replaced and only cloned from 3 or 4 times.

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The Arguments Against Cloning Cannabis

Of course there are those that suggest cloning cannabis is not the best way to create crops. There are many arguments against cloning such as messing around with the plants natural life cycle. A marijuana plant is a very sensitive annual plant and has not evolved to live for several unnatural generations. This prolonged lifespan and the stress involved from external sources such as insects, disease and rough handling may over time decrease the plants genetic make up resulting in weaker clones the older the mother plan gets.

Some growers believe that given the right growing conditions and given the proper care and attention the mother plant needs the genetic drift as it is called can be greatly diminished and even completely eliminated.

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