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by _ph_ 1656 days ago
This sounds like they are clones of the tree the needles were take from. But if the don't take a thousand needles from one tree but one needle from a thousand trees to star with, they would have a lot of generic variety. Going via needles would only mean "skipping" one generation of intermixing the genes, but the new trees would be as genetically varied as their origins.