I agree that hydro is a more efficient and probably more technologically advanced way to grow, but there's nothing like good old fruits of the earth :P

Plus it's much easier to keep stuff around for a soil grow, keeping things around for an advanced hydroponics grow gets a little more suspicious.

I thought as a rule when dealing with Veg/Flower, you wanted to have the flowering room at least 3x taller than the Veg area? In previous grows I've seen a large increase in plant size after going into flowering, plus as it's spending much time there you'd expect alot more growth.

As for the pot size idea, that's probably good, but having 8x28cm pots on the floor would make it very difficult to fit the CO2 gen and canister in the main chamber (I've done the maths).

And yes, cloning will be located differently - The clones we'll be using will be taken off vegging plants just as they go into flowering - Because we're using a high tech aeroponic cloner, we should get at least a 60-80% success rate on those clones, so we'll only be taking two off each plant which'll be strategically located to top growing tips too. This means we have a self sustained grow without any worries about buying seeds or supplying mothers.