Yeah I spent quite a bit of time planning before I pulled the trigger too. Right now my operation is far from safe between the smell and my closet pouring out light so I've got to find fixes for that ASAP.
Are you planning on growing for personal use or selling? Mine is just for personal use. I may sell a bit here and there just to friends (I already got more weed than I can smoke) to help get rid of it. I don't want to get caught sitting on a pound or anything like that. I need to double check the amount that is the cutoff for a felony here. I am keeping my grow to only four plants at a time, because five is the magic number for a felony in Kansas. It's ridiculous you can get a felony for growing five plants, but you gotta play by the rules.
Anyway, I'm starting to ramble. My point was that if it's for personal use if you're anything like me I wouldn't do a clone setup. I'm pumped to grow a variety of different strains. My first grow was white widow. Now I just planted my LSD seeds from Barneys. I want to grow Light of Jah, cheese, critical mass and Vanilla Kush too though. I've spent tons of time looking over different seeds/strains for sale and those are all at the top of my list. Most of all though I want to grow the new Pineapple Chunk that Barney's just came out with. It's potent stuff and supposed to produce a huge yield. For my next grow I think I'll do two Pineapple Chunks and two Light of Jahs. I think half the fun is building up a wide variety of different kinds of A+ weed. I want to be a conisseur of pot if you will lol. I just think it will be cool to have ten different jars with different strains in them that you can pick and choose from. Growing and trying out different strains is what motivates me. If I was just growing simply to have something to smoke, I could stop now and be set for a hell of a long time, but that's not my objective. I would get bored real quick growing the same strains over and over again. If you are growing to sell I can totally understand that approach though.
You have a lot to look forward to. I'm just wrapping up my first grow and starting my second, but so far it's been a hell of a lot of fun.