I suspect you will be able to keep the plants alive, but you may need to swap bulbs from bright white to sunlight tint (blue to red in the spectrum) in order to get flowers. I would also add another small CFL light, just to boost the lumens -- 6000/sq. ft. is my self-imposed minimum for indoor growing.

Small lamps are cheap at thrift shops, but get the biggest CFL you can find that will fit the socket. Usually you can find the color spectrum of the light and the lumens on the side of the package.

Nyamo,

I cant grow African violets with cfl lighting either!!! lol I would not even want to try unless I had a hps. Every plant I ever grown under an hps has never had any thing wrong, I suspect the high uv keeps plants really healthy killing any chance for disease. I never really had luck growing house plants and special flowers that grow so slow they get disease from bad temps and low indoor lighting. I can grow huge harvests of peppers, tomatoes, and other veggies outside or under hps lihting. When they sit under fluorescents lights it seems like they do not even grow? I used blue spectrum hps bulbs and I can grow plants start to finish under it. Dwarf and cherry tomatoes are my favorite thing to grow indoor.

This is why I will never answer one of these questions again because no one comes back. Why would you post a question then never come back to it?

MasterGardener, how do you know he or she hasn't come back?

OP: I don't know much about your specific plants, but the idea is to replicate these plants' ideal conditions (see link below for a good write-up on African Violet). The humidifier is definitely a good idea. However, a 60 watt incandescent equivalent (14 watt) CFL isn't a lot of light given little to no supplemental sunlight. African Violets need about 80 watts of fluorescent light (not incandescent equivalent) according to the write-up. You can easily go to 100 watt equivalent (~27 watt) in that same lamp but that is still not enough. You can get flowers with any fluorescent bulb provided there is enough of it -- the red/blue thing is largely a myth -- all fluorescents cover the light spectrum well.

Here is a link that might be useful: African Violets