I’m just going to drop off dumb questions I have here and probably rant a bit about how much I don’t get them.
To start off:
How the heck do you grow anything in clay pebbles? It’s clay! I remove clay lumps from my soil in the garden because the plants don’t like it and people are actually using it to grow things? How does that even work? It’s so light, the plant would fall over, it should fall over! I can get the concept of clay pebbles on top of the soil but clay pebbles AS the soil… no. NO! You’d just lose a seed in there if you dropped it in and it bounced off the clay pebbles and into the cracks somewhere. Must be like living on mars to plants. And how does the plant get to moisture/nutrients? It’d have to grow roots very quickly to get into any scraps it found in the clay pebbles or do the pebbles excrete it?
I don’t get clay pebbles.