Is this CFL good to start?

cool thanks for the info,your right n i didnt expect much when i bought them i just seen full spectrum n the cheap price .i am just tryin to go cheap for veg lights,cuz i spent all my cash on flowering lights .and im going 12/12 at 30 days plus im not planning on havin mine as big as yours at 30 days due to the fact im gonna put 1 plant in flowering side every week without running outa room ,so i can (hopfully) harvest one a week.friend of my dads has a set up like that n hooked me up with some good lookin clones with preflowers already on it :D.not sure what strain exactly,its real skunky every one calls it B weed in our area .he's been growin it for 15 years now.all i know is i can only take 2 hits of it before work or ill be fuckin everything up all night.

Hey I saw at Home Depot tonight the 65 CFL I think you saw. $13.00 I think.

But that didnt include the mogul socket they needed. Im sure it the same light too.

The need a ballast....lights didnt look bad actually....but i guess you get what you pay for. WHo knows, might be a good bulb....jsut dont know how long they might last...

I bought one of the outside lights from home depot thats a 65w lights of america 6500k light. It has its own reflector and mogul socket. All I had to do was install a power cord. Another thing this bulb puts out like 8000 lumens. it was around $35
I also have a teklight t5 4 bulb unit that puts out 20,000 lumens and seems a hell of a lot brighter. I also bought a couple $12 2 bulb shoplights with the t8 bulbs and I bought a ballst that runs 4 bulbs and took the one ballast out of one light and installed the new one and bammm more light output. So then I took the other ballast and doubled up ballasts on the remaining light. before I overdrove the other light I did a picture comarison of outputs and the overdriven one was better. You can even overdrive the bulbs to 4x.

heres is a pic on the left is a normal t8 fixture and the middle is my teklight t5 and on the right is the 2x overdriven t8 fixture

http://members.iglou.com/rons0z/lamps/ovdr.htm and heres how its done

yeah thats the one i seen ,n they got a fixture for it with a reflector like harmon said for 35$,in the outside lights section.id prolly buy it n try it out if the bulb came with it, not sure if it did or not .ill get up there these weekend n check it out.

yup it comes with it but all you need is a two conductor power cord for it

yeah just went n bought it lol,comes with a 65w=500w 6500k bulb $39 plus tax
its this one here http://www.lightsofamerica.com/floods.htm.u just gotta cover
up the night/day sensor with some black tape.i really dont see how it could = 500W
but thats what they say.plus says on the box its more = to sunlight than a hps,n
i dont see that either.hell it it does the job i say its worth it.if the bulb dont last as long ill just buy a few for 13$ a piece n keep them around.well i gotta go find a spot n dig some holes ,peace

You will need at least 3 of those to grow 2 plants with any real density.

Keep it to two plants.

yeah they arent quite as bright as it seems they should be. the T8 overdriven seems to put out more light for me and you can just go buy 2 shoplight t8 fixtures for $12 a piece and make them into 1 you can also mix spectrums.