Vex, I built a ebb and flow system 25 years ago. It was a Sea of green perpetual system. I cloned the mother, in perlite, until roots were nice and long, then transferred into 4" mesh pots in an expanded rock called Turface. The mesh pots were sat on the veg flood table, and under each mesh pot I put a square of synthetic fiber lace... this helped "wick" the nutes into the roots. Switching to flowering room, meant moving the pots onto the new table in the flowering room, and starting them on their new nutes. The plants stayed in the mesh pots until harvest.
I made the tables myself out of plywood and an epoxy coating they use on milk tanks. This enabled me to size them right, set them on supports, and flood and drain all the tables at once from a 100 gal reservoir. Nowadays that would not work, because of the variety in nutes we can use at various stages to produce good results. My setup was 12 X 1000W HPS and 1 X 1000 MH veg light... so, I'd probably need 2 or 3 reservoirs for that setup.
But, that will never happen again. I had that garden for three years and it was mad fun!
I don't know what strain it was (bag seed) but it was wonderful.
I really like your grow and I'm looking forward to learning...