I thought I would take this opportunity to explain some things, mainly because my memory sucks..
I've been doing this growing thing for some time now, and have been very pleased with the results. As I mentioned in the preface, I have been experimenting with plants for some time. I do mean experimenting. I get a lot of grief for not doing it "the right way", but this doesn't matter to me. The learning process is the most important to me. I personally know what 90+ degrees will do to plants, I've done it intentionally. This is a personal hobby, and I get a lot of satisfaction out of it, learning, improving. I'm not concerned about yield, weight, cost. One thing to note, everything that you see will be consumed by me, eventually. I grow for myself only, no matter how much I may grow.
My approach to start out with, was to have a single box to grow in, with a cloning area, and perpetually have 6 plants. I found problems with this scheme, particularly that I could only harvest just enough to smoke, with no surplus. Going to 12 plants helped slightly, but with the same amount of space and light, I had about the same production. During these grows, I perfected my veg and cloning techniques. Dense flowering was a different matter, and was only really fixed by going to HPS and a larger space.
Now I have three areas, a box for clones (2' cube), a box for veg (4'x3'x4'), and a room for flower (big). Right now, I have all my space filled with clones, vegging, and flowering. I perpetually clone before flowering and get the next group ready.
I decided that my old clones were perhaps not performing as well as more modern strains, so I went looking for new seeds. I purchased over a few months, white russian, super star and chocolope as regular seeds to clone. My intention is to go back to a 12 plant rotation with four plants of each strain. I've been phasing out the sensi star ( my original clones ). My first group of 3 strains x 4 plants is in the cloning box right now. I hope to continue this for some time. I think my only regret is that I don't have a more pure indica or pure sativa. It would be difficult to fit them in, so it may not happen, or if I do, it will be feminized ( one-time ) seeds.
I planted my regular seeds in rockwool and put them in the flower room to germ,veg and flower. I wasn't concerned about stretching, only that I was able to get a few clones. Then I could grow out the mothers ( from seed ) and smoke em. That is where the white russian is right now, harvesting the imperfect plants from seed. This, combined with the 3 free seeds that I'm growing makes for quite a few plants. Once these are gone, I should be back to 12 plants in cycle.
Currently I'm harvesting the first white russians, and my legacy sensi star. I have 6 great looking plants of white russian ( clones ) now in flowering,
My veg box is holding 6 sensi star, and the 3 free seeds-plants, until the next clones have rooted.