What light do you use for your 4ft x 4ft?

What ya using for your 4x4 grow?

I can't spend $700 on a light so I'm hoping to get some budget suggestions

600w MH/HPS with a parabolic reflector, ~ $300 Cdn.

King Gelato auto, one of five in the space ! Hiding in the very back right is a Gorilla Glue #4.



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HTGSupply Digital Greenhouse 315W Ceramic Metal Halide Dimmable CMH System with Philips 4200K Full Spectrum Bulb & Hangers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079K2FQRS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4E7Y13JCD8ZZ1KXTAF4E

Carambola 4000W LED Grow Light 5x5 ft Sunlike Full Spectrum IR Commercial Grow Lights for Indoor Hydroponic Plants Veg Bloom 1152pcs LEDs Waterproof Hightest Efficiency https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DLZW7TP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_4PJHF7T4R86MTZM0TMGQ

Check that LED out. Cheap action.

why don't you give us your budget instead of saying what you cant afford and well help find a light to suit it?

Yeah, it really depends on the budget-cheapest light to cover that space is a 600 watt hps, which run around $130. LED is significantly more expensive.

TheHouseOfGreen420 said:

why don't you give us your budget instead of saying what you cant afford and well help find a light to suit it?

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Yea that's fair, I guess $600 max. I'd like to go LED for energy saving purposes.

I'll be using a single 4ft x 4ft tent for everything... seedling to flower.

I know you can get a Growers Choice for around $500. I love mine. They are worth looking at in my opinion.

Skillcraft said:

I know you can get a Growers Choice for around $500. I love mine. They are worth looking at in my opinion.

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Those are fantastic lights.

Check Amazon for the new HLG Blackbird. Newest model in their Scorpion line. HLG is out of stock on their website but Amazon has them.

Still my favorite hidden gems here. Dirt cheap. A good cleaning and $10 Octua case fan upgrade is most additional expense you should see. Dense buds and almost full coverage in 4'x4' @ 32" tall.

Best wishes.

There are two grow tents in my grow area. I have a 400w MH in my veg tent, 18/6. There is a 600w HPS in my flower tent, 12/12. Originally I ran everything in a single tent, vegging for a number of weeks and then I would swap the bulbs and shift timing. Decided to set my area up to have perpetual growing, hence two tents.

Both lighting systems cost me $600 combined and they came with cheap reflectors. Replaced those with ones that would allow for cooling air to move through and that was another $200. I replace the bulbs every 6 months with fresh ones as they lose their lumen output over their life cycle. Lamps cost about $100 to replace so an annual cost of $200.

Used an air cooled 600w MH/HPS but would always suffer light burn at the end of flower.

Tried a DE 645w CMH. Had to dim it to about 345w in flower to avoid light burn.

If you live in a cold place I’d suggest a HID lighting system rather than an LED as I had to run a 2kw heater with it. Which made it much more inefficient than the HID lights.

But if you’re grow room temps are good deffo go with LED. Just not a purple one claiming 3000w from China lol

I use a mars hydro fce 4800. It gets the job done. Really any 480-600w bar light rated at 2.5umol/joule or higher will do the trick. Some of the best weed I’ve ever smoked came out of my 2x4 with 300w of cheap generic led 2 $60 150w lights.

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I've recently bought an HG Scorpion Diablo and I'm impressed with the growth I've had the past 5 weeks of flower.

HLG has some great customer support.

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Lenin1917 said:

I use a mars hydro fce 4800. It gets the job done. Really any 480-600w bar light rated at 2.5umol/joule or higher will do the trick. Some of the best weed I’ve ever smoked came out of my 2x4 with 300w of cheap generic led 2 $60 150w lights.

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$549 isn't terrible for 480w is it? Also you don't have any issues with overheating or burning smell? Thats the one complaint ive seen posted about mars-hydro products.

I use vivosuns vs4300 it gets the job done for 500 bucks its not quite what I want. I'm looking for at least 650 watts.

DrDukePHD said:

$549 isn't terrible for 480w is it? Also you don't have any issues with overheating or burning smell? Thats the one complaint ive seen posted about mars-hydro products.

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no problems with it at all, won it on a giveaway here last year. Just ordered this though, same specs minus the uva on the current gen and like $200 cheaperSAMPHON Led Grow Lights 4x4ft Coverage Dimmable Daisy Chain Full Spectrum 480W Hanging Plant Lights for Indoor Growing,Grow Lamp for Indoor Plants Veg and Bloom https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Q559RKG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_WB2E1KM60TCYHJENH72S?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 moving up to an 8x4 for main flowering and retiring all my hid stuff

hotrodharley said:

Check Amazon for the new HLG Blackbird. Newest model in their Scorpion line. HLG is out of stock on their website but Amazon has them.

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That thing looks pretty dope. At $699 though, is it worth it compared to the Mars Hydro FC4800 which is $550? Aside from blackbird @600w VS fc4800 @480w....Like how much difference in production/hours of light lifetime can i expect out of the HLG product?