Most people don’t expect their hydroponic system to fail. You plug it in, add water, drop in a seed—and for a while, it works. You see growth. You get excited. It feels like you’ve figured something out. Then one day… it just stops. Leaves yellow. Growth stalls. Maybe everything looks the same for a week. Or worse, things start going backwards. What I’ve learned from working with hundreds of new indoor growers is this: hydroponic systems don’t usually “break”—they drift. A sm