It can take years of hard work to cultivate a cannabis plant with the desired characteristics. Cannabis reproduces sexually, meaning it requires a male and a female plant to mix their genetic material to create seeds, so fine-tuning the cannabinoid content, the growth features and other important traits is exceedingly frustrating labour of trial and error.
When a grower gets a strain just right, it can be disastrous to breed the plant naturally; all the hard work of cultivation can go out the window in one generation. Thus, instead of breeding, many growers simply make clones.
A cannabis clone is essentially a cutting of a plant which grows roots and develops into a separate, mature plant with identical genetics. The process of cloning can conceivably be done ad infinitum; the original plant and any clone can be cut and rooted to produce more clones. Thanks in large part to cloning, the best weed strains have gained popularity around the world-famous strains like Bubba Kush, Cotton Candy, Green Crack and Sour Diesel.
Yet, cloning isn't without its detractors. Some weed experts suspect that cloning isn't as foolproof as previously suspected — that the act of cloning might cause strains to change over time, which certainly isn't what cannabis growers or enthusiasts hope for.
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