Wow I just installed a 10k Solistek 600w MH in my bloom room yesterday. Had no idea it was a defense against PM; it was suggested by the Rev in last issue of Skunk because it has an enhanced spectrum supposedly better suited for organic soils than an hps or so I've read. The 10k has UV a and b which is supposed to help boost trichome production.
I was using an hps so we shall see how it does but if gmm is using it I'm a bit more confident I'll get good results.
yea man, the 10k is a beefy light, VERY bright... just remember that UV is baaaad for ya, get some dark sunglasses/skin cover or simply kick it off when you go in there.
and you should run at least a 1/1 ratio of hps if you can, the 10k as a sole flowering bulb doesn't seem to work as well
the anti-mold aspects of it I discovered on accident, but the key is you gotta have not only an open reflector (the tempered glass shields the UV) but you gotta have your fans running through the light, so the setup would be a "pulling" setup, rather than a "pushing"
so what i do is, draw air in from outside (one 6" vortex) pushing that air through my aircooled hps bulb, into the 10k air cooled reflector, which is open.
so all the air passes through the UV light as it comes in.
same concept as an aquarium UV setup sorta.
works really well, i'm happy with it, but I wouldn't use it as a sole source of flowering light
the overlapping spectrums work amazing, the plants in between the two bulbs do the best
