Aqua Flakes
House & Garden’s Aqua Flakes A&B is a two part base nutrient designed for recirculating hydroponics systems. Aqua Flakes A&B liquid formulation contains no bulking agents or additional additives. House & Garden’s Aqua Flakes A&B nutrient provides the plant with high quality nutrition during the growth and flowering periods. Aqua Flakes A&B is composed of liquid main and trace elements and contains no bulking agents like solid fertilizers. Our liquid formulation is 100% water soluble and its unique composition assists with the transfer of nutrients from the root zone into the foliage. Application dosage may be adjusted to both normal and aggressive strengths.
Derived From: Calcium Nitrate, Ammonium Nitrate, Nitric Acid, Potassium Hydroxide, Phosphoric Acid Anhydride, Magnesium Sulfate.
Ingredients Explained: The complete base nutrient for expanded clay, Oasis Cubes, Rockwool and Coco. Aqua Flakes A&B is specially formulated for recirculating hydroponic systems. As with all House & Garden products, Aqua Flakes A&B is extremely concentrated and has a low dilution rate. House & Garden maintains their own nutrient manufacturing facility as well as their own laboratories where they continually test each batch of fertilizer they produce. This ensures that gardeners employing House & Garden receive high quality, consistent products.
Application: Aqua Flakes A&B is the complete macro/micro nutrient for the plant’s entire life, dosage will very.
Available Sizes: 1L, 5L, 10L & 20L
Feed Chart: Aqua Flakes A&B and Cocos A&B
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Love your product, first time user. Growing medical cannabis, should I be using Cocos A&B?
Mike, if you are growing in a Coco medium, then yes.
Growing medical can you just use aqua flakes a+b and be sucsessful or do you have to use the spendy additives?
also my cuttings take super long time to root, i am using a gel rock cubes in the dome set up with cubes sittimg in waternand your root exec, i tried a heater mat didnt help? thanks alot
Hi Rob,
I’ve done runs with only using the A and B base nutrients and no additives and have had a decent product in the end. However, the additives really do make quite a difference when you’re talking overall quality. As far as the cuttings, you will need to add some kind of nutrient to the mix. I add 2.5ml/gallon of A and B, then PH the water. Then add 1ml/gallon Roots Excelurator to the mix and that’s normally great for the nutrient solution. I also use a cloning gel on the end of the cutting when I put them into the little cubes. The heating mat is a must too, you want the ambient temperature inside the dome to be 80-85 degrees F. You will want to spray the babies with some PH proper water occasionally too. That’s how I do it, I see roots in about 7 days. Good Luck!
Alan
I am using a soiless setup using peatmoss and pearlite. Is aqua flakes a good choice for that type of setup?
Hi Jared,
Yes, the shop is correct. We recommend using Aqua Flakes for soilless mediums. Peace!
Alan
Hi,
I’m thinking about switching to Aqua Flakes for an Ebb&Flow/Undercurrent DWC system. But I’m confused about your listed NPK values. Is A .3-0.3 or 3-0-3, and is B .1-.3-.6 or 1-3-6. I know it says on the label that the percentages are the point figures, but I find that somewhat hard to believe. If this is the case however, is that because availabilities are so much higher in a hydroponic environment? Also, does the Aqua Flake program have any Ca in it, or just Mg?
Thanks,
San Juan Sam
Hi 1mhOtep,
Aqua Flakes is what we recommend for either one of those systems. I’m told that we were instructed to change the label to include those decimal points and that it all means the same thing. Regarding the calcium, there is generally enough calcium in the water already and I have never had a calcium deficiency myself while using Aqua Flakes, but if you need to add calcium we recommend Cutting Edge calcium for that. Add it to your water before you add your base nutrients and don’t use too much. Peace!
Alan
I based in Hong Kong, Asia. Wonder if Aqua Flakes A&B could be shipped oversea to Hong Kong.
Hi Jackson,
Sorry, can’t ship overseas. I have tried numerous times and it always gets returned to me. Peace!
Alan
hi! im here in the u.s.a. and wondering;most nutrient lines use separate grow and bloom nutrients, with different ratios of NPK for each stage. this makes sense since my “medicine” uses more p than n during flowering. so when using aqua flakes in a top drip, 10 gallon reservoir set up shouldn’t i use different amounts of aqua flakes to adjust for plant usage? i have some plants in flower who’s leaves are dark green, expressing too much N.
Hi Chris,
For situations like yours, you can reduce your A part of your base nutrients. Maybe start at a 20-25% reduction of the A Part. Just a note, If you have plants that are in different stages of the flowering cycle feeding off the same reservoir, you’ll have to figure out how to deal with that. Our charts are disigned to have all of the plants on the same stage at the same time. Peace!
Alan
i have a seperate reservoirs. I have another question. after reading the labels closer i realized “B” contains all the needed macro/micro nutrients for flowering and 2% less N, than A. Theoretically wouldn’t it be feasible to just use twice as much “B”, instead of both?
Hi Chris,
No, don’t use twice as much part B and no part A. That’s just asking for trouble. Peace!
Alan
What is the difference between Hydros and aqua flakes? Can I use either in my res? Which one is better? I saw Hydros advertised but do not see it on your website. Is it a real product from you guys? Thanks.
Hi Heeb,
The Hydro Grow and Bloom aren’t available in America. We use the Aqua Flakes. Peace!
Alan
After reading your reveiws I give you guys much
respect for being honest with your answers for your
Customers . And you guys just got yourselves a new
customer . Peace from CROOKLYN
Hi Crooklyn,
Thanks for the kudos. Peace!
Alan
Just wondering. As my reservoir level drops should I add just plain water or include the recommended weekly nutrient regimen to top it off.
Thanks,
Wilson
Hi Wilson,
If you have a big enough reservoir to get through the week without topping off, then you don’t have to top off. If you need to top off the water to get through the week, then you can add fresh nutrients according to how much fresh water you add. Peace!
Alan
I am using Aqua Flakes in a soilless mix and was wondering what my PH in should be and what my PH out should be?
Hi Dejammey,
Your PH in should be between 5.8-6.3 and your PH out should be within that window too. Peace!
Alan
Hi, could you tell me which of your products are organic? This will help me figure out what I will need. Thanks and have a great day!
Hi Danny,
The Bio-1 Componant is the organic 1 part base nutrient. Peace!
Alan
Sorry, just saw something and needed to know why I see another product from H&G called H&G Hydro A & B? Is this another name for the Aqua Flakes? Thanks.
Hi Danny,
The Hydro A and B is the least selling and least demand of all the House and Garden products. It’s meant for a drain to waste hydro system and most people prefer to recirculate their hydro systems, so they use Aqua Flakes. Peace!
Alan
Hello,
Can you please list the percent, by weight (or volume if you must), of elements? That is, the same information that is printed on the back of the label. I am considering buying this product but before I do I want to know what I’m buying. Thank you very much.
Hi James,
The information you need is at http://www.aapfco.org/metals . Peace!
Alan
Hey I am running a non recirculating dwc system In which Each plant has it’s own reservoir . So I’m kinda of confused about switching from multi zen for bud xl aswell as how much do I drop my base nutrients when I start using shooting powder?
Hi Pablo,
You can just stop using the Multizen and go to Bud Xl without any problem. For your base nutrient levels and Shooting Powder, you should refer to your PPM pen on that one. Those bubble buckets are very efficient, so you’re probably not running the base nutrients at full strength anyway. Probably drop the total PPM by 1/3. If you’re running 500PPM, drop it to 300 or 350. Peace!
Alan
I’m wondering where I can get some info on your products in terms of organics. I would appreciate a complete list of all the additives, as well as Aqua Flakes and if they are 100%, organic based, completely synthetic, etc.. It would also be nice to know where your products stand with the USDA. Also, I’m sure you often have people comparing your products with Canna’s, but they stress their products are environmentally sound, how about yours?
Hi Bobby,
House and Garden nutrients are made from the highest food grade synthetics available. Our products are environmentally sound. The FDA approves of our products, otherwise they wouldn’t allow House and Garden to be sold here at all, let alone be used for edible gardening. Peace!
Alan
I followed your feed chart in week one veg and i got an ec of 1.8. This is not typical for any plant in the first week of veg. can u please clear this up for me. What is a good ec/ppm to start cannabis in week one so i don’t burn my new batch
thanks
jake
Hi Jake,
You might have a high EC out of the tap. I don’t know how the levels could be so high with a low dose of base nutrieents like that. I would think that a good PPM for week 1 of veg is maybe 300-350, depending on the health and size of the plants. It’s better to starve them a little at first until you figure out what the plants like. Peace!
Alan
I am running drain to waste coco system, but water from big reservoirs that are constantly recirculating with pumps and refilled weekly. Should I use Aqua Flakes or Cocos with this setup?
Do you recommend using Cal Mag if running RO water with either base nutrient?
Will using an aerator in my reservoir have any negative impact to the nutrients?
Hi Landon,
The Cocos formula will be fine with your system. I do recommend cal-mag with RO water. Add the cal-mag first to 150ppm then add your base nutrients and adjust your PH. Turn you air pump down so you dont lose your nutrients that way. Peace!
Alan
the nutrient calc. does not show amino for 9wk schedule during flowering early weeks before bud xl and shooting powder but it is used for 8wk schedule. It is also different depending on normal or aggressive dose. Please explain or is this a mistake and I should use equal parts of amino and multi zen or bud xl?
Hi Jason,
I noticed yesterday that the nutrient calculator had some wrong information on it for the odd numbered flowering cycles. We are aware of this problem and we are taking care of it. Peace!
Alan
Hello guys,
How long do you guys recommend flushing Aqua Flakes? Feed chart says only 3-4 days??
Thanks for the help
Hi Mr. Chong,
Actually the feed chart says 2-3 day preharvest flush, but you can go 4-5 days if you really want to. The reason for such a short flush time is that H&G doesn’t have the salt build up that some other nutrients have. It only takes 2-3 days of flushing with PH proper water to rinse out the lingering nutrients and up to 10-14 days to flush out salts. Peace!
Alan
Wow…I was flushing for 10-14 days and changing res as my ppm climbed and hit 500 ppm…this was obviously too much? You are saying 2-3 days and that’s all that’s required?
Thanks ! House & garden is the best and these questions you guys answer are just as good as the nutrients themselves…thanks again
Hi Mr. Chong,
I’m happy I was able to help you. Thanks for the kudos. Peace!
Alan
I’m am currently running the Aqua flakes nutrient line with Sea Green ( a compost tea) and mycorrhizae in a recirculating system with rock wool croutons as the grow medium. I am under the impression that AF prefers to be anaerobic in nature and was wondering if It would aid or hinder the overall performance adding blubbers to my well to assist the aerobic bacteria I have supplemented. Thanks
Hi Tolstoy,
Aqua Flakes does not prefer to be anarobic. If it did, your Sea Green and mycorrhizae wouldn’t work very well. Air stones just aren’t needed with the system you’re running. I’ve run the same type of system as you for over 10 years now, 5 years with only the House and Garden line. In that time I have used air stones and not used air stones, and always go 2-3 weeks between water changes. I have come to the conclusion that air stones aren’t needed for this type of system when using House and Garden. In fact, you can actually lose nutrients as the bubbles pop. The water gets plenty oxygenated with the recirculation of the system. Peace!
Alan
I was wondering what the best base nutrient for running sunshine mix#4 in 15 gal pots..they get fed and have run off with every watering! Thanks Peace!
Hi Cory,
Sunshine #4 is technically a soilles mix, so for that we recommend Aqua Flakes. Peace!
Alan
I was wondering what the best base nutrient for running sunshine mix#4 in 15 gal pots..they get fed and have run off with every watering! I feed one day water next would it be better to give drip clean with plain ph’d water?
Hi Cory,
You will want to feed everytime you water with the base nutrients and additives. Peace!
Alan
Have the measurements changed on the shooting powder. Before it was 65 g per 25 gallons. The Nuetriuent Calculator said to only use 40 grams per 40 gallons?
Hi Pak,
The nutrient calculator is having problems that we are taking care of regarding Shooting Powder on the odd numbered weeks flowering feed charts. The proper dose is 1 sachet / 25 gallons or 2.6 grams / gallon. Then it jumps to 2 sachets / 25 gallons or 5.2 grams / gallon. Nothing has changed. Sorry for the confusion. Peace!
Alan
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