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One day, you'll say to yourself, "You know what, Self? you should have two rooms, one for vegging, and one for flowering." (trust me this will happen) Naturally you'll agree with yourself, and you'll start looking around your house for another space you can commandeer because you've realized that if you had another batch of clones ready when the first was done flowering, you could produce a crop of flowered clones every eight weeks or less instead of 12 or 16 (or more) with seeds. Here is a method that works well, with only a minimal increase in power. For your Vegging room, use the space under a staircase, ("It's not good for much else...", you'll say) and employ you'll  4 CFL's light it, and leave it on 24/7. You will have to buy another fan, etc, it means setting up a whole new grow, and effectively running two operations at once, but once you get the hang of it, it will be worthwhile. Use a HPS for the flowering room, which of course is perpetually set on 12/12, and you move the plants in and out. So much for the general overview, here's how the cycle works. We'll start as though we were adding the new room just prior to flowering your sexed seedlings. Take cuttings off the lower branches  of your sexed female plants just before you flower them, and root them for at least a week under CFL's before planting into their final homes. Under 24 hours of light, they will grow into mature plants 12 to 18 inches tall, ready to bloom quickly when you put them into the flowering chamber. When your first crop is done flowering, take cuttings off the vegging plants, and place them in the rooting chamber, and the vegetative plants go into the flowering space to bloom. There you have it, the circle of life is complete.