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Either way will work fine, depends on you.
Flowering out the seed plant will give you a good idea of growth habits/requirements, more bud (larger plant) and if you even want to keep the clone as a mother after finish; potency/taste. I would do this if you are unsure of the plants genetics, like bagseed.
Flowering out the clone will leave you with a larger plant to take cuts off of if the plant reaches your expectations. I would do it this way if you are pretty sure that the plant is a winner and you will want to do more runs with it.
HTH
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Flowering out the seed plant will give you a good idea of growth habits/requirements, more bud (larger plant) and if you even want to keep the clone as a mother after finish; potency/taste. I would do this if you are unsure of the plants genetics, like bagseed.
Flowering out the clone will leave you with a larger plant to take cuts off of if the plant reaches your expectations. I would do it this way if you are pretty sure that the plant is a winner and you will want to do more runs with it.
HTH
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seasmoke
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I normally send the seed plant through first, after I take cuttings...this time I have a seed plant that hasn't gone through yet but I have cloned once. Shes a nice full plant and I would like to keep her around if there is any advantage to it. They called this strain Midnight Oil.
No particular advantage, but keep her around.
I've done it both ways since I'm still running the same strain. It seems that after about 6 months or so, the host plant just gets too unwieldy and gets a trip to the flower room. Been running this strain for a bit over 1 1/2 years and on my third host plant.
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I've done it both ways since I'm still running the same strain. It seems that after about 6 months or so, the host plant just gets too unwieldy and gets a trip to the flower room. Been running this strain for a bit over 1 1/2 years and on my third host plant.
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eyecandi
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no real advantage, but here is my take : cloning is like using a copy machine. take a copy of the original, all is OK. but keep making copies of copies (Seed Original Mom->clone->clone->clone->clone ... etc) leads to genetic drift (how does copy # 20 look? missing ink/spaces, looking distorted.) and lower long term yield/potency (I've even had a couple strains loose smell completely).
so for me, I use the original seed mom until she has problems in her 18gal container (I up-size pots every couple months to avoid rootball/container size problems), then she gets culled and replaced by a 1st generation clone from her. I never go deeper then a 3rd gen clone mom).
a seed mom is usually more vigorous in her growth then subsequent clone moms (same as hybrid vigor)
my 2 coppers
so for me, I use the original seed mom until she has problems in her 18gal container (I up-size pots every couple months to avoid rootball/container size problems), then she gets culled and replaced by a 1st generation clone from her. I never go deeper then a 3rd gen clone mom).
a seed mom is usually more vigorous in her growth then subsequent clone moms (same as hybrid vigor)
my 2 coppers