Okay everyone check this out. Best theory up to date. Genetic mosaisism. Super interesting stuff.
They took cuttings from the bottom middle and top of a plant. They sequenced (or whatever its called) the 3 sets of cuttings and found that the more you go away from the base of the plant the more genetic mutations you get.
That means genetic drift does occur depending on where you take your cuts. If you take new cuts each time, after a few generations or even one, the genetics change, well they may change. So in order to preserve genetics through cloning you would have to make a selection of the cuts that are the closest to the base of the plant or to its original geno/phenotype. That would also explain all the different cuts from a single mother plant (ie:gsc).
If you want you can read the whole story, but in short I’ve been taking clones of clones and hit them with pollen from… you guessed it, a clone and always from the top of the plant.
The variegation seems to fade away on the biggest S1, that would be the plant trying to fix itself. It’s a common “problem” in the variegated ornamental plants community they tend to revert back to normal after some time.
Now to confirm the new theory I will try to infect all the plants in the tent by rubbing the deformed leafs on the mother and give a nice massage to all the seedlings.
I feel enlightened.