Originally Posted by MajoR_TokE

For the cfl's i would use atleast 1 42w or 45w or 2 27w per plant, more is always better. Most people say to get the cool white 6500K cfl's for vegging those are the blue spectrum. The biggest 6500K cfl i could find at HD was 27w i think . For the perlite i got mine a HD in the gardening section.