One word, grasshopper: GrowFAQ
Particularly highgrade’s classic how-to on bubbler buckets.
For new to immediate growers, it’s a hydro tek that is still hard to beat for cost, flexibility, ease of operation, and output. Takes the complication and dependence on mechanics out of the equation. Worst can happen is your air pump fails and your girls get a little oxygen-starved for a couple of days til you can run to the aquarium shop.
Though I would agree that if you are very new to it, soil is the first stop on the path to wisdom… (And probably the last stop as well.)
-b420
ps- Oh, and skip the full spectrum LED lights, go for white COBs. More on that soon…