Cali, I'm no expert on cloning by any means but this is what I do. I have a glass of ph'd water ready before I take a cutting. As soon as I snip it it's into the glass of water. You don't want air getting into the stem if you can help it. The water that I ph'd I'm going to use to water the clones after I put them in party cups. After I've taken the cuttings I want and they are all in water I get my soil ready. For soil I use about a fifty/fifty mixture of soil that I've amended and then fifty percent seed starter. I use a wooden skewer to make a hole in the dirt. I use root powder, I have gel but I like the powder better. I get some powder and sprinkle it onto a piece of paper, I never dip my cuttings into the jar of powder. I then start taking my cuttings removing any leaves at nodes and make my final forty five degree cut where I want it and immediately dip that cut in root powder and then take the cutting and roll it around in the root powder to cover the bottom inch or three of the stem and right into the party cup. I then trim the leaves back until I have the clone looking like I want it. To the ph'd water I add a little maxicrop and 0-2-0 to help rooting and water the clone. I went to walmart and bought a tub with opaque plastic. I took the lid off and used the tub part as a dome. If you have a tub like container you can always put your plants in it and use saran wrap as a top. Remember clones don't need a lot of light, you're trying to grow roots not leaves. As far as spraying, I try not to overspray, it will cause your plant to rot. Instead I spray the clones once in the morning and once at night before lights out. To keep it moist I spray the lid and sides of my propagation dome.