For what seems the longest time ever, the understanding that clones and biotypes are fundamentally different entities was completely missing among producers and (culpably) glossed over by scientists. Still today, the vast majority of producers, who have very limited if any scientific preparation, routinely misunderstand what the two terms, clone and biotype, mean. In their ignorant bliss, they use them interchangeably; in so doing, they engage in an act that is not only erroneous, but downright harmful to their own cause. Not that the scientists are much better: for the longest time, they too tended to speak of clones generically, without forwarding the insight necessary to allow anyone to grasp that there are in fact huge differences between the two. Even more importantly, that there are huge implications for all involved resulting from this lack of differentiation and understanding. Let’s see why and how that is.
Clones versus biotypes
