little-soldier
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Very interesting what you are saying here but if that was the case (plant maturity) then wouldn’t this problem be very common? I mean, next to no one grows seedlings more than 2 months because at that point plants are about 3-4 feet tall making most plants higher than most ceilings when done flowering. As for phenotypic plasticity, i always feed my plants the same food, my environment is on point and i tried cloning in rockwhool, then jiffy’s and now in turbo cloners and in the end, the final product is still the same disappointment.One is you may be facing is phenotypic plasticity
Another option is maturity.
In terms of maturity - having bred for almost 2 decades I have seen how a plant changes dramatically after being alive for a while. Some plants dont really shine til they are vegging at least 6 months. The tricky thing is, when you take a clone, the clone will no longer mature. If your seed plant is 2 months old when you take a clone, even if you veg out that clone for 10 years, genetically its still only 2 months old. If you vegged both the 2 month clone beside the seed plant for a year, the seed plant would start exhibiting new features.
So, maybe your seed plant was maturing more than your clones and thus produced different chemotypes.
Then theres phenotypic plasticity. It could be that whatever youre using to clone or any difference in environment or foods is causing the differences.