If I lived in Colorado and cash was tight I for one would be using the best natural source of light there is. A big ball of fire in the sky. Also (and I am probably opening myself up to being trolled), keep it simple and cheap. Get a bag of Miracle Grow and some inert perlite (the soil has enough nutes on it’s own), a 5 gallon bucket and go to town. Get a grow going and read, read, read. Tons of great stuff on RIU. Not to mention a shitload of videos on you tube. In Colorado the competition for customers must be fierce and decent equipment should not cost an arm and a leg. Also you have another awesome avenue for learning...several hundred growers. Go to some garden supply stores get to know some folks and learn! Soon you will be able to grow seriously dank buds. Then you can tell all those that want to nit pick your grammar instead of offering real help to go suck eggs.