Quote Originally Posted by maryjanehaze
cfl's are great and evrything, but I'm tired of everyone saying you need them. I have been successfully growing lowryders under 2 standard 125w household flo. tubes and they've been growing great. :thumbsup: .

A flourecent tube is the exact same type of light as cfls. A cfl is just a twisted up flo tube. It is much easier to concentrate a cfl then a tube so ppl use them.