With my luck.  With soil it really matters.  Size matters. It's like a battery, or any energy storage device, all organic nutrients have to be broken down buy the micoriza. The microbiom etc.  With hydro. I think I have seen big grows that use Rockwell cubes. It was an ebb and flow, or they flooded/ let it drain however fast they wanted and would flood like 6 to 8 times a day. But even those I think stack progressively larger cubes. And the food is like an insure for plants, with hydro.