bodhisatta said:

Senescence is something most of won't even be able to juggle a culture long enough to run into.

I think most of that info stems from contaminants and people getting dirty after so many g2gs. Ive been to a couple farms that only order a master culture every couple years and keep it going all that time between

A lot of edible farms are fucking jokes. And a few have their shit together. One mushroom farm I visited didn't do g2g at all they bought all their spawn. They said a lab is too complicated and risky. They went out of business after a year.

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This is interesting as I was also always under the impression that you did not want to push g2g past 2-3 generations, but then again, so much info has changed since I began cultivation that this was just another lingering detail I had stored in my head with no personal proof.

Tstone said:

Sure, however even clones have hundreds of genetics in them, so when you take clone tissue, you aren't guaranteed to get an exact match as the donor, it just increases the likelihood of similar genetics.

Unfortunately , cloning shrooms aren't as exact as Cloning plants. If your on  your 8th G2G transfer, and clone tissue, your tissue sample is the same age as the the original master jar. When clones are done, most tend to take samples from the first tub / grow made from the master, keeping the mycelium as young as possible, in order to get the most future use from it( regarding health,vigor etc..)

Someone recently mentioned that the clone tissue sample he took, produced small fruits, instead of the large ones like the donor, and cut his yield by 1/2.

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