Yeah, I used 2 x 125W blue envirolites for vegging in my cupboard and I will be using them again. Worked good for me. Can you stretch to second 200W??....that would work VERY nicely in a double reflector!!
Sure, I could put another 200w in there, but I just don't think you need 400w of enviro's to veg 8 plants - it's more the light spread I'm interested in, which 2 x 125w's would do a better job.
I'll check out the Which articles, hadn't thought of looking there actually, thanks.....then I'm going to Blooms and am going to read the back of all their soil bags to see what I like the look of. I can't buy any yet though as I'm skint!

But I should be able to get my Satori and Hashberry started next week when I have some money to get the soil.
It's hard to advise you on which one to get as I'm as confused as the next person - the compost companies keep changing their formulations without telling anyone. J A Bowers Multipurpose compost (not the one with added John Innes) I beleive is a good one, but only that one. Also B&Q Multi-purpose compost is supposed to be good as well. To be honest, from what I've been reading, I'd stay clear of the Westland products with the Advanced West+ in them as a lot of the problems people have been having is stemming from the time that was introduced. Might be a coincidence or not, but people have been having problems growing Canna in Westland products since the formulation change.
Peat is an organic material, its just not so eco friendly to remove it from marshes etc, so I guess that's what why the soil association don't approve its use in soil mixes. I wouldn't think twice about planting a hanging basket up using a peat based mix, so there's certainly no moral reason why I shouldn't use it for my ganga! I'd use the canna soil again with a few tweaks if it wasn't 15 quid a bag!!
Of course peats organic and yes, that's pretty much why the Soil Association have decided it isn't organic or at least doesn't fit in with their 'organic principles'.
The Canna and Allmix soils are both great composts, that's not in doubt really although I've never tried the Canna, I've heard its similar to the Biobizz one. As you say though, at the prices being charged for them and the hassle and cost of having to collect the stuff means (in my mind at least) they'd have to be worth that in terms of performance and for me the Allmix certainly wasn't. That may not all be down to Allmix, my water is medium hard and for some reason Allmix doesn't seem to like hard water, now that might be because the Allmix starting EC is already at 2.4 which is pretty high already, now add in 0.8+ EC of hard tap water and you start getting an EC of 3.2, when you should only be feeding at something like 0.8-1.0 EC.
I'd love to try Allmix with RO water, as I think you'd really see Allmix at its best then would be interesting to do a test grow between Allmix and RO water and say one of the better peforming common composts like J A Bowers MP and see if the Allmix performs 2-3 times as well!
What's interesting is that both the Canna and Allmix soils are listed as being organic yet have peat in them. So technically they're not organic by the Soil Association parameters and therefore do not have organic status in this country. However, they do conform to the EC and European Organic certification bodies, as they clearly do not have a moral problem with the way peat is sourced.