@HighFromHome, Yep you nailed it! The forgiveness level that coco or soil has is the main reason it’s taken me so long to try any hydro set ups! But it was cheap and easy to setup so we will see what happens😂
dwc is nice and if done right you get a huge yield, a few tips for you, your water is way too high, the idea is to have a gap underneath the clay pellets of just air, now in the water you have your air stone making oxigen, if your trying to get that going you want to water by hand so the roots can breath and also they will stretch way in the bucket, now remember yur gap between the water and the bottom of you net basket, this is where the roots will eventually be stuck in air before hitting the water, but that air is a high oxygen and those roots soak it up and just take off
also after she is going for awhile and things look happy, make sure you keep an eye on ph, check your water ph every other day cause it will drift way down, your prime ph zone for dwc
is between 5.6 and 6.2 so aim for a 6, your plant will be huge and you will be hooked on dwc, good luck and i have a few dwc diaries if you need to look