HossCartwright
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I decided to change my cloning style after learning about Epigenetics, mainly that stress from the environment can cause mutations in DNA and phenotypical expressions, called somaclonal variation. What's worse, if you grow out the clone with somaclonal variation and take cuttings of her for another generation its possible to pass that mutation on, called germline mutation.
Yup, I recently learned this fact from personal experience. I inherited an indica dominant mother plant that was in Soil. For some dumb reason I transplanted it into a 100% perlite hempy bucket. The stress from the transplant and new medium caused all the new growth to express sativa dominant traits and all future clones from that plant were also sativa. It was crazy.