Now that I understand there are choices in fluorescent light quality and color, I don't feel as disappointed. There's two components you should be aware of. The first is the Color Temperature (that shouldn't be confused with actual temperature or heat the lamp may give off). It's expressed in degrees Kelvin and you'll see something like 2700K or 6500K printed on the lamp or packaging (with the higher numbers being towards the blue end of the spectrum and lower numbers towards the red). Manufacturers also use terms like "Warm" or "Daylight" to describe the color but those terms are subjective and what is warm to one manufacturer may be slightly different than another manufacturer's warm and even different within the same manufacturer's line. Which, depending on how fussy you are, can be a little annoying when you use multiple lamps in the same fixture. The other component is Color Rendering Index (CRI) or how accurately the lamp reproduces color. This is very important to stores where, say, a blue shirt needs to appear to be the same blue in the store and at the customer's home. CRI is measured on a 100 scale and higher is better. The only way to improve the CRI is for the manufacturer to use better (read more expensive) phosphors when making the lamp. While very few manufacturers give that information on the packaging, generally speaking more expensive lamps reproduce color better. Most fluorescent lamps have a CRI in the low to mid 80's which is fine for most purposes. If you are sensitive to color or want better color rendering in, say, a dressing area then look for lamps with a 90+ CRI. Unfortunately, with the eventual phase out of incandescent lamps, picking a light bulb just became a little more complicated.

well i am using the AeroGrow CFL lights in the Aerogrow gardens, to grow my violets, as many as i can,i can only fit so many under each one. i bought 6 of them for the 3 gardens, everything grows FAST, and blooms like they are on steroids! The regular CFL twisted lights, i was using, they seemed to grow violets a bit, but now that I have been using these, till they burn out, ill use them.

I want to know what type of bulb this fixture takes LED? Halogen? cfl? [Signature 1-Light Wall Sconces, Oil Brushed Bronze[(https://www.houzz.com/products/cassia-1-light-swing-arm-wall-lamp-oil-rubbed-bronze-prvw-vr~56719434) Sold by Lighting New York

You don't need much at all to replace a 45 watt incandescent with LED. Try buying an LED with as low a wattage as you can and trying it out, like under 5 watts. Now, if your lights are actually halogens and you're replacing them with LED, that's a different story.