HOUSE AND GARDEN AQUA FLAKES REVIEW – MY FLOWER CYCLE

I am running House And Garden Aqua Flakes in my flower cycle for the first time.

Over the years I have run many different nutrient lines and most were pretty good.

But I never got around to trying H&G Aqua Flakes or the rest of their nutes, although I have used Roots Excelurator with good results.

Several growers I know and respect are knocking it out of the park with this line so I thought it was time to give it a try.

So here is my honest House And Garden Aqua Flakes Review.

House And Garden Aqua Flakes Background

House & Garden Aqua Flakes A & B, 1 Liter

House And Garden was developed by William Van De Zwaan a Dutch horticulturist who ran greenhouses and has a long time in the horticulture industry in Holland.

He helped develop several Dutch nutrient lines including Canna before launching his own company. Today they are made in Humboldt County California.

Aqua Flakes are different in a number of ways from other nutrient lines.

It is a 2 part system with specific additives for the different growth cycles and it is cannabis specific nutrient line.

The are no separate veg and flower nutes with this system. You use the A & B for both cycles along with specific additives tailored to the growth phase.

They have a fair number of additives but I won’t be using them all and in a moment I will tell you what I am using in my flower cycle.

But first a word of caution here: You can not judge a product by reading its label.

Generally it is required to list the NPK ingredients and not much else. So often someone reads the label and says the product is overpriced and they can mix it up for pennies on the dollar. Don’t believe it.

This is a very competitive industry and manufacturers will not disclose their secret ingredients and formulas so the competition can knock them off.

House And Garden Nutrients are chock full of aminos, enzymes, vitamins and other good stuff but they are not listed on the label because they don’t have to be.

So about my grow. I grow hydroponically in flood and drain. I use growstones primarily and I recirculate my nutrients.

Aqua Flakes was designed for recirculating systems with inert media. Because these media have little to no buffering capacity and don’t provide any nutrients it is important for this mix to provide everything plants need and be pH stable.

I run HLG lights in all my grows so I do add extra calmag. I hear people get good results with it in coco too but I cant confirm this.

I am growing Bahama Mama a strain from Solfire Gardens among others. It is a SOG with 15 plants in a 2 x 4 flood tray under a HLG 650R. I did a review of this light here: https://420dotcom.com/hlg-650r-review.html

If you want to follow this grow it is on my sister site at: https://420grower.org/bahama-mama-by-solfire-gardens/

HOUSE AND GARDEN AQUA FLAKES FEED CHART 10 WEEK

This is the feed chart I am following. I am not running all their additives and I am running Power Si Bloom as a silica source.

It was designed to be used in bloom so it has less silica than the original Power Si.

It contains some NPK and other ingredients like natural plant antioxidants, phyto enzymes, L-amino acids, and low molecular weight humic compounds.

HOUSE AND GARDEN AQUA FLAKES REVIEW MY NUTRIENT LINEUP 

Power Si Bloom

You run Power Si Bloom at 1-2 ml per gallon throughout flower.

Always add it first and be careful not to contaminate the bottle with other nutrients.

This stuff can really lower pH so dont forget to adjust it after everything is mixed.
CaliMagic

I am, also running CaliMagic as a calmag supplement.

This is the best calmag supplement on the market because it actually has more calcium and magnesium than any other brand along with iron and a bit of nitrate nitrogen.

You may not need it. My water is close to RO at 30 ppm so I need it. Also plants grown under LED lights require added calmag. 

OG strains in particular are heavy calmag feeders. I run this at 3 ml per gallon. A ml is about 100 ppm. If you are in coco you will probably need more.

Root Excelurator

Root Excelurator adds vitamins, hormones, kelp and beneficial bacteria to create an outstanding product to increase root growth.

Been using this even before running the House And Garden line especially on my clones.

Now I run it until week 4 of flower. Seeing increased roots with nice fat white roots poking out of my net pots. At 1 ml per gallon a little goes a long way.

Aqua Flakes A+B Base Nutrients

This is the heart and soul of the H&G line. Use both bottles in equal parts for both veg and flower. 1 ml of both A and B adds about 100-120 ppms per gallon. I am in hydro so there is no buffer so I use about 70 ml of each for a 20 gallon reservoir. With the added calmag I run about 800-900 ppms in early flower.

This is a hydro formula but I have heard of people using it for coco too. If you do grow in coco, soil or DWC they have specific bases for those grow methods too.

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