Thier are variables here dude you could have 2 high end leds and 8 plants in 5 gallon buckets of coco top feed or flood and drain or dtw on a 2 month veg but hid lighting yeh your gonna need 1500 to 2000 watts of gavita fluence or growers choice led or cobs or 1800 to 2000 watts of cmh or 3...