Personally I think it's a lot easier, and a lot more hands off and easier to control than soil grows.
When you over water in soil it's because your depriving them of available oxegyn, the roots have to be able to breath, that's why in soils you generally want a nice, light, air mix with at least 30% perelite or pumice with some pest for water retention and maybe some coco + your amendments. Overwatering in soil happens when the soil can't breath because it's to dense, and from frequency of water not generally how much you water when you water. When I ran soil i'd watered 1-2 gallons every time I watered once they were past the seedling stage, and even before putting the seeds in the container I would completely soak and saturated the container a couple days before I moved the seedling to it. When it lost 60-70% of its fully saturated weight it was time to water again until it was fully saturated again.
In dwc you don't have that problem because you are constantly pumping air into it with air stones so the roots stay fully oxygenated at all times. In the small buckets we run 2x 2" round ball style air stones now, and in the big buckets we run 3x of them. Each airstone has between 5-9w worth of air pump going to it. In the big buckets there are 2 with 9w (6x on a 55w, 2x 55w pumps so 12x stones with about 9w to them, and then 6 stones on a 35w that are mid way down the bucket closer to the top so a little under 6w each for a total of about 25w per bucket, that equates to around 7-8lpm per gallon of solution or so way over kill but it's how you get explosive growth making sure the water never really dips below 7 or 8ppm Disolved oxegyn, 9ppm is ideal but that's hard to achieve once the plants really get moving), then the small buckets each have 2x stones on a 35w pump but hold 1/2 the amount of water and doesn't have to work as hard against the weight of the water.
Sounds complicated but it's really not, you just oxegynate the water, a lot like you would a fishtank kind of. Get an air pump, drop some stones in the bucket, roots never lack for oxygen never have rot issues or "over-water" issues.
Germinated in root riot cubes dipped in 50/50 organicrev/water. Will be moved to 3.5 gallon buckets for a week or two before going to the 7 gallon buckets on the gravity fed dwc. 3 or 4 will be on kosher nutrients, hydroguard and bud candy. 2 or 3 will be on the complete success nutrients line + bud candy + hydroguardView attachment 99View attachment 100
