Your gonna have to partition it or something eventually if your gonna run a mother/clones room and flower room at some point... I'd suggest grow tents would be the easiest and fastest way but not exactly the cheapest, but a nice 4x4/5x5 tent for flowering can be setup basically for $1000 with with most everything you would need I'd say.... But if your handy with 2x4's/wood etc... You can frame it somewhat modestly and use black/white poly to separate the areas and just get creative for light leaks... But you gotta...gotta...gotta have the rooms light proof have it so the lights do not interfere with one or the others dark time, zero light from anywhere in the dark periods, most importantly the flowering area but you still don't want any light leaks period.... Even the little red/orange light from the little switch on a surge protector in the dark can fuck shit up/cause herms, switch flowering plants to veg... Dark time needs to be 100% dark...
But u need a minimum 1 room for veg/mothers/clones....all 3 can be done in the same area but it is nice to have seperate cloning area as u want very low intensity lights to clone with... A few cfl's will work fine....or farther away from your main veg light will work too... and a flowering room... Otherwise your kinda defeating the purpose of getting a cloner n all that... If you only have 1 space to work with then I'd suggest getting some fem seeds or worst case some autos (last option in my book.. Zero experience with them but for some people a necessity) and do seed grows... Takes quite a bit longer but if u use fems/autos you know your getting females...
But if you want to run any kind of perpetual grow/reap the benefits of using clones.... FYI most strains u run from clone will most likely be better, better yield, pretty much better all around unless something gets fucked up... From seed grows are usually your preview of a strain, unless it's really bad; and even then you have to grow a strain from clones a few times before deciding if it's a keeper or not unless it's a complete dud but most times your seed grows are a preview, that's all... Sometimes a strain will change completely with the added maturity time... Also getting to know a strain will help u grow it better too so that's part of the equation...
But on the real, if you aren't ready to invest the time and money and do it semi right and be ready to still most likely fail a few times... don't do it.. If you don't already have some kind of grow know how, gardening experience etc...don't go off the chain and spend $1000's of $'s setting up and then give up on it because you failed a few times because u didn't know what to expect... There's a LOT of work and time gonna be required of u even on a small scale... My honest opinion is if you have no grow experience and aren't setup at all, go with soil... It's much more forgiving and a lot less labor intensive...waaaay more forgiving...and way cheaper to get started... My first biggish investment was my Ez cloner and is the only way to clone for me and can be used for plants to be grown in any medium... But soil is easy compared to hydro, once you know your basics you can get yourself setup for hydro if u still wanna go that route... But I initially started with hydro, fucked up and fucked up until I decided to try the bag of soil I had laying around, once I did that the $500+ I spent on diy hydro bullshit got dumpstered and I learned via dert... Now I feel confident enough to run hydro, know how to read plants etc... In soil you have plenty of time and buffers to save a failure, hydro you can blow a grow in a res change... Anything you give the plant is pretty much instant in hydro, soil things take a few days and you can see problems coming, hydro...you can walk out of your grow room and come back in 4 hours to a ruined crop... Not trying to scare you off, but honestly think about it...
On the real it took me years to get to the point to "think" I knew everything and a few more to realize I didn't know shit... I hate to sound old but truly it's a commitment that can get real fuckin expensive...and still fail no matter how much $ you throw at it... But again, I'm all for people growing their own, I just hate seeing people get crazy, spend a bunch of $, fuck up a few times and give up... Read a few grow books if u haven't, take all with a grain of sand....take what you need from everything u read and leave what's not useful to you... The one book that comes to mind was Ed rosenthals "grow guide" or some shit but it was my first book that's been revised I believe... But read a few and you'll see the variances in opinion most times stated as fact... "Stoner science" is a big problem on the forums and in even in published books as well so don't make major decisions or any for that matter without researching them heavily... All the right info needed is usually posted in the "stickies" and should be browsed through in each forum... But don't rush into anything blind....try not to anyhow...
