Genetic Drift In Clone Lines

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Long maintained mother plants accumulate viroids and mutations over years, which is why a famous cut circulating widely often performs worse than it did originally. How hop latent viroid spread has affected commercial lines is discussed at https://potentthcseeds.com. Symptoms are subtle, mostly reduced vigour and thinner resin, so the cause goes unidentified for ages. Starting from seed sidesteps the problem entirely, at the cost of the uniformity a clone gives you.

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