Quote Originally Posted by kingbud2010
you can buy 2x 1 ft purple spectrum flor's at thc.ie for 40 euro, their good for seedlings, blue/white for veg and red for flowering,you'd be aswell off to buy the cfl's man their only 40 euro each and one of them should do you for a good few plants, they don't need a ballast there's pretty much no heat off them either so you can have them very close to the plant
All gas discharge lamps require a ballast, from HID to fluorescent. Who told you CFLs don't require a ballast?