The Veg room will be 100% sealed from light and Ill be using fluorescent lighting. The mother plant will be grown in a 5 gallon buck and a plastic dome for the clones.

Im going to with a 600w light because down the road i would like to upgrade and like you said 2 lights make it easyer to workwith then 1. From what I have read I should save money with 2 600w digital lights vs 1 mechanical 1000w.

As for the aquamist I would like to hear more comments. I watched the dvd "see more buds" and they used these things to grow 15lbs in under 80 days using the same system but with someting like 100 plants per system. Thats 100 plants in 2" net pots vs 8 plants and 4" net pots. They also used 600w per system.

The aquamist also comes with a stand to hold it off the ground for 17 bucks that im going to be picking up with it so the plants wont be on the cold basement floor.