Severely stressed plant recovery?

[Jack Harer]

I recently looked at a friends plants that were severely stressed. At first I couldn't figure out what the problem was. Her soil was draining pretty poorly, so that the bottom half of the pot was continuously wet. She finally tells me had just recently transplanted the small plants, and wasn't watering them until the bottoms dried a bit!! The roots on the newly transplanted girls didn't care about the bottoms, all they knew was that the top area where their roots were was really dry.
Anyway, the upshot is that I have inherited these plants (Great genetics) and they seem to be on the way to a full recovery. These plants were brought back just before they hit the point of no return.
My question is will these girls recover enough so that cuttings will be normal and yield as if they weren't moisture stressed? I have good genetics myself, and although this is a cultivar i have been after for some time, I do not want to fool with these if the clones won't yield properly.
Thanx fo any input!!

 

[Lovepump]

Cuttings will make their own root system and will have no "memory" of mom's badly-draining root system. Additionally, if the plants are still in vegetative growth: usually if you give them 2-3 weeks of "normal", nobody will know they ever looked bad. As insurance, I would clone each one individually though and keep track of mother/offspring relationship until moms are done, especially if the genetics are noted for going intersex due to stress (unlikely).

 

[Jack Harer]

Thanx LP. This cultivar isn't prone to hermie, I just don't have a lot of experience with moisture stressed plants. I read "somewhere" that a moisture stressed plant won't ever yield to its full potential, even after recovery. I thought it was BS at the time but I just wanna be certain before I invest a lot of time and energy in these girls. They are Black Domina. I already have Selene and Killing Fields, ND will round my selection out!!! Thanx again for getting with me on this.

 

[kin_dawg]

Hey jack. Here's my take- what you read about a plant not reaching it's full potential if 'checked' in growing (checked meaning any type of deleterious effect eg moisture stress, broken limbs etc) is more true of crops grown from seed to harvest (usually outdoor). Think of it in the way that if you had 100 tomato plants in a field which you let dry out on an occasion, so this may cost you 2 feet of growth or a pound of tomatoes at final yield which, x100 tomato plants is quiet costly. The plants have not reached their full genetic potential.
Inside with cannabis plants we are able to manipulate and keep sick/stressed plants in vegetative growth and nurse them back to health. This to has its taxes like extra electricity, nutrients, time, $ on your bottom line. You will notice that the best growers on icmag keep super healthy plants in all stages of growth. It's a combination of experience, skill and dedication. That's what makes a true green thumb.
The other type of damage we may incur on a plant is at the cellular level, if a plant is sick and unhealthy then over time it's DNA may become damaged, but that's something I don't know much about.

Sorry for the long reply but I hope it helped some.

 

[Backwoodsman]

I think you will be just fine if they came from good stock to begin with. I'm nursing some underwatered plants back to health as we speak. If you get them healthy I see no reason why the cuts won't be healthy.

 

[stoned-trout]

I have had some ugly ass plant recover and kick ass..so yes ....yeehaw

 

[St. Phatty]

I had an Apollo 11 F3 that was saying, "the soil is too rich".

A friend suggested giving her a flush so I washed about 5 gallons of water through it, a 2 gallon pot.

A week later it was completely different. No more burned look, Covered with resin.