Clone And Age

Chronologically the cuttings will be the same age as their parent plant
If a plant has a life span of 10 years
and on the 9th year i take a clone will the clone live 10years or 1year?

good question.. i think it would live again that 10 years... coz it produce new life...

Great question, I think it would only live 1 year, because the telomere after 9 years would be so short.

fish601 said:

Chronologically the cuttings will be the same age as their parent plant
If a plant has a life span of 10 years
and on the 9th year i take a clone will the clone live 10years or 1year?

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that is a very good question, something for us to think about..

Charlie Green said:

good question.. i think it would live again that 10 years... coz it produce new life...

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how do you figure? its not NEW life at all, its the exact same plant simply forced to grow new roots AND new shoots. a seed produces new life, a runner produces new life, a cutting is just a continuation of the donor plant.

huh...interesting...never heard about this concept before

bump..............

wow!!!! excellent question!!! ide say 1 yr second gerenration which could live to 11 yrs... this should replace the chicken and egg theroy.. it would be 1 yr tho... all that is old it its self, the roots, and foilage wound be new

with plants is it really an issue? I mean dolly the sheep died quickly due to advanced dna degradation. But in plants they can be manipulated to live forever. Hell all Hass avocados are cloned plants from one tree in CA. Clone age is more of an issue of taste than a hard and fast truth.

I think one should rather look at what phase of life a plant is in, you still treat a fresh clone as if it were a seedling, not as you would as a mature plant. Plus you can give plants all the hormones you want to get it to do things that just arent natural.

i agree totally.. clone slive forever if they dont mutate