Hmmm, I have been running my lights on a 18:6 time setting for vegging with a 150 watt HPS, I have only been running my set up now going on 2 weeks. As for cloning, I haven't done that yet, all of the plants I am growing are from seeds I found in buds I got from a club, otherwise I would have bought clones from the club to start. I know in the next container I'm doing I will be buying clones and either doing 3 strains x2 each or 6 different strains. Plus this way I know that I will have all females.