take it easy with lighitng.. don't expose to your vege light yet...
ambient light only for 10-14 days.. unless you see it grow and stretch, then it's telling you "give me more!!" .. you should wait for that moment with clones or you can stall them with intense light... if they are younger, you will cause them to cannibalize their leaves... clones shouldn't yellow, that's a sign of bad methods.
you can snip the larger leaves off and that might help.. leave only 2 at top plus any tiny leaves of auxiliary growth.
this helps retain moisture with fewer leaves and, the plant doesn't want to photosynthesize with a limited root system, or you only damage it and slow it down. -- it doesn't know any better, so it will ract to light and cannibalize itself if you provide too much light.. removeing leaves also helps to this end.
i wouldn't take off any auxiliary growth when you take cutting, just my opinion.. i think it takes longer to grow side branches later on and what benefit it might provide early on doesn't outweigh that slowdown later.
a cfl.. out on your coffee table.. a window sill with no direct light.. all great options for this initial time period. just make sure it gets ~15+ hours so it doesn't produce an abundance of bloom hormones due to extended darkness.