Can a Mars hydro Fc 4800 flower a 4x4?

Let’s find out. I’m a little behind getting this thread up and my seedlings were neglected some and look a little rough. But they will come around, let’s see what this light can do over the next couple of months.

I’ll be running a Fc4800 in a 4x4 tent in soil for this run. Testing new seed stock let’s see how she grows.

Ok didn’t have time to update this, this past month. But I will keep it updated as we go into flower. Im switching theses gals to 12/12 this week. I have 11 plants in the 4x4 in #2 nursery pots. They are going to be flowering under the Mars Fc4800 at full strength just as they have vegged.

I wasn’t around to care for them completely but I am now so they are in good health and ready to flower soon I just took cuts so a few days to heal up and I’ll switch them.

At 480 W it's going to be a bit shy of the low end of optimal for a 4x4 tent. It'll get you to harvest but not with the best results. GL.

Light looks good, what strains?

twentyeight.threefive said:

At 480 W it's going to be a bit shy of the low end of optimal for a 4x4 tent. It'll get you to harvest but not with the best results. GL.

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I’m aware it’s a bit lacking on watts, however I’m just trying to show what it can do in a 4x4 tent, since it’s the most common tent bought. Hopefully it helps new growers, When deciding on a plug and play setup.

Corso312 said:

Light looks good, what strains?

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I have gorilla glue x animal cookies
Gmo x animal cookies
And purple punch s1s going in there together

Light will be fine. If we go from the par maps youre going to want your buds to stay between 12-18 inches from the light. If you have a even canopy and keep all bud uncovered, you should be able to drop that light 12 inches from the top and penetrate good down 10 inches. So from top of bud to 10 inches down on each branch. shave them south of that. Wont run as good as a 600w would in the same space but wont be a slouch either.

m4s73r said:

Light will be fine. If we go from the par maps youre going to want your buds to stay between 12-18 inches from the light. If you have a even canopy and keep all bud uncovered, you should be able to drop that light 12 inches from the top and penetrate good down 10 inches. So from top of bud to 10 inches down on each branch. shave them south of that. Wont run as good as a 600w would in the same space but wont be a slouch either.

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I have zero doubt in the light, I’m sure it will fare well for me.

evergreengardener said:

I have zero doubt in the light, I’m sure it will fare well for me.

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Yeah i dont get some responses. I mean less then a year ago this forum was packed full of people running Spider farmer 4k lights in 4x4 tents all over the place. And 10 years ago we were doing this same thing accept with T5s. They didnt penetrate as far as LED but we could set them right down to a half inch from the bud. It was a little over 400 watts and done right in a scrog in a 2x4 space you could almost hit 1 gpw with it. The good ole days. LOL

looks good to this guy

Ok folks. So what happened here is I had a family member pass, and I let things go like crazy. plants went Unmaintained and they were not flipped to flower so now I have a super full tent I flipped them a week ago and they are starting flower now. I will update here to show how the light preforms

Here is the tent pretty full I still managed to have decently even canopy.

But here is to show just how long I let these things go for lol. They have legs

evergreengardener said:

Ok folks. So what happened here is I had a family member pass, and I let things go like crazy. plants went Unmaintained and they were not flipped to flower so now I have a super full tent I flipped them a week ago now and they are starting flower now. I will update here to show how the light preforms

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Sorry for your loss buddy.
Life sometimes takes the front seat and we have to deal with it. Plants can always recover. I'm sure you'll do fine in there with that light gl

Jjgrow420 said:

Sorry for your loss buddy.
Life sometimes takes the front seat and we have to deal with it. Plants can always recover. I'm sure you'll do fine in there with that light gl

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Thanks man. All in all I’m pretty confident it will still end in a nice run. After all it’s just a hobby for me. Plants were abused but they came back around with a little love.

evergreengardener said:

Thanks man. All in all I’m pretty confident it will still end in a nice run. After all it’s just a hobby for me. Plants were abused but they came back around with a little love.

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You know what you're doing, I'm sure you'll get what you need out of it. There's ways to maximize the potential of that light just maybe your outer edges might lack a bit. People always forget about reflection off the tents. It raises the par by a fair bit. Just keep that main growth area under the footprint and keep the outer edge minimal.
Would be nice to add 2 bars to it tho