get a 250 for flowering and if you want to make a badass light for veg, i would compact fluorescent bulbs. I just make mine last sunday and my plants went from seedlings to triple their height and probably 4x as many leaves. I bought a 2 x 2 foot piece of wood and cut 12 holes in it for light fixture boxes like you would install in your ceiling. They are blue boxes and I got 12 plastic bulb bases. I just used standard 14-2 wire and pigtailed everything. So i basically have in a 2x2 area I actually have 16 42watt CFL bulbs and its all wired to just a plug in. I uses like 300 watts but that thing makes some light. I am around 25000 lumens and I only spent like 60 dollars for everything. I would suggest something like that for my mother and clones. I went a little overboard but I think a few of those 100 watt or 150 watt cfls from home depot would work just fine. They are like 7200 lumens per bulb. If you use fluorescent tubes, dutch pimp is right on about the t5 being better. Just make sure to use one cool bulb and one warm one. Also any fixture you get from your hardware store will not be 54 watts like the High output fixtures from sunblaze. The ones that you will find commonly are 26 watts. That isnt too bad but you just need to use more. Just know that a 4 foot 26 watt T5 bulb will put out around 2500 lumens. One of my 42 watt CFLs makes 1800 lumens and its 2" x 2" lol. I like my slightly less efficient CFLs.