What you are setting up is a grow operation. You are nowhere near a perpetual grow. You
cannot start a perpetual grow with one room and/or one light. Perpetual meets continuously.
I have 3 roooms to support my perpetual grow set-up. I have a closet set up with 3 cfl "grow" lights.
Each light supports a cloning dome and a heating mat. I usually have 1-2 domes going with 6-10 clones between them.
Once rooted, clones move to a bigger closet that has a 400W. set-up, my veg room. Maybe 4 x 6 feet, the veg room houses
2 mother plants, 9 clones and 2 autos as of today. The clones are from the Kushage clone mother. Taken in sets of 3,
I will move 3 each week to the flower room. The autos will stay in the veg room at 20/4 for their lifetime. So the veg room
is set up to supply 3 clones a week to flower, in perpetuity.
I have a big chalkboard in my 1000W. flowering room telling me what came in when. Using 7-quart to 3-gallon size pots
to finish in, I' looking to get smaller plants. I can comfortably flower 18-20 plants in the 8 x 8 room if they are in small pots.
So, every week I take 3 clones, move 3 rooted clones into the veg room and harvest my 3 oldest plants. That's a perpetual grow
and it is a lot of work.
BigSteve.