SOG with two rooms

After my first grow I've decided to go with the SOG way. Im going to be getting 3 general hydroponic Rainforest 318 site. They each take 18 plants, making that 54 plants.
Would it be wise to get more plant site packed in there, like the rainforest 236, which holds 36 plants a site, thus 108 clones. I have 2 digital ballast with 1-400 watt mh and 1-430 watt enhanced hps running.
IF a 400 watt lights cover 4'x4' areas, my 8 foot by 7 foot shed should be pretty much covered by 2 400 watt lights. So would another system be sensible or is that packing it to tightly?

On the set up of the system: Two grow rooms which are equal size with the HID lights being put into the flowering room. In the Veg room we would have our clones propagating under a EZ Cloner system and our 3 mother plants, all under fluro lights. I was thinking of just using racks for the clones to go under when they are done with being in the EZ Cloner. Would 2 30 watt CFLs work for 20 little clones just to get them to 12 inches.
Lol , sorry to ask so many question so this will hopefully be my last. Seeing as I only bought one Co2 system, would it make more sense to put the co2 in the flowering room, right? Since Co2 only increases weight, not quality of the bud, it would make more sense to go in there, from what I've heard.

The first picture is of the first system suggested and the 2nd pic the second system. Ebb and flow systems have crossed my mind too. Money isnt a problem for this set up so any input is welcome.

 

lol yes i know..
Thanks for the input. So i guess using the 318 rainforest would be better, but thats pushing it. I think having 3 lights in there is to much, i thought the 2 400 watters could make it for the 40-50 plants.

 

Thanks for the input guys, Dr. Green, i thought packing it in was the whole idea to it as well. It just came upon me though that an Ebb and flow system would be much easier to take care of- like changing the water out- with a container as opposed to having to move the plants to get into the system itself like in the rainforest set up. Thanks for the input

 

Well.... I do have another 400 watt regular ballast switchable MH/HPS, so maybe i could throw that in there, but i was just thinking with 3 lights going, thats sucking up a crap load of power.

On another note, I think ive decided to go with an ebb and flow table, and like Dr.greenbud said, "pack it in", using a 4x4 tray, im figuring ide be able to stick 20 clones in with each of them in 1 inch rockwool cubes. So if i go with ebb and flow im going to be getting two of the systems with 2 lights, possibly 3.This sound reasonable?

 

damn, thank you guys so much for the info... my family was just having a family medicate session, relaxin out and my mom was pointing out that i was using a ceramic heater this whole time( its gets chilly in nor cal sometime-like low as 25 at where im at) and it was using 1600 watts. I'de rather spend a few hours insulating my shed then work a weeks worth of a paycheck to pay a 700 PG&E bill, no joke.

Thanks for the input guys, I still have a question though that hasn't been replied to: Better to go with an ebb and flow style system for SOG grow or will the rainforest style hydroponic system work well? Oh yea im gonna be usin flora nova for nutes on this, but only for bloom, I've read up on Flora Nova grow and heard its shitty. I guess Ill stay with GH for veg.

 

Decided to go with ebb and flow tables. Two 3x3 tables with 30 gallon res. each, Im guessin i could pack in about 30 clones on their with the two, anyone agree?

 

thanks for the advice Doc. Im going to go with a 600 watters instead of 400's, so it will be 2 600 watt digital ballast with both mh and hps.the clones are already coming in 1 inch rockwool cubes, so im guessing you could pack quite a bit on 3'x3' table. Im gonna stick with 20 on each table i think.
As the whole process gets going and goes smoothly im gonna to be putting clones in at different times so that every week or 10 days i can have a harvest of some bud, whatever the amount.

 

So i got a question about feeding the plants. Im using ebb and flow and i got two giant res. and if i have 10 plants in week 8 of flowering and i got some plants in week 3 of flowering, what would be a good nutrient strength for it? i was guessin around 800-1000 ppm .