Yea, ive looked at those lights and ballasts and even have some on my wish list, but am just sticking with led for now. I have enough money invested at this point..lol.
I couldn't exactly say why about leds and the deficiency either without doing a little reading up on it. I think it has to do with the light spectrum.
I have seedlings that just popped as well. The only things I added to my dwc buckets were: rapidstart, and hydroguard. Which brought my ppm up to around 50ish.. 150 isn't bad for tap water. Mine is up over 300.
if nature is illegal, freedom doesnt exist..