Cloning is not an easy process, So read up on that if you want to give it a go. Now is probably a fine time to start flower. Remember that they double, triple and sometime's quadruple in size during flower.
A little hint on cloning, Remember in 3rd grade when your teacher had you grow marigold or whatever in a 2-liter bottle with saran wrap on top. Then we had put them in a windowsill,
That has much of the principles of cloning in that experiment.