They aren't mutually exclusive Stealth LOL!! disclaimer: JOKE!

The problem with the w/f's is that they don't promote good drainage partially because of their teeny holes in the red bucket and i personally also think its because of the square shape of them. They jus aren't built well for larger plants imo.

Here's a couple photos of some of the problems we've had (pic one is a branch literally suffocating due to the roots being squished off inside the red bucket) that can be traced directly back to poor water flow, air flow AND drainage in the waterfarms buckets.

The largest problem is that the roots get so messed up and crammed together that they keep any water, fresh nutes and oxygen flow out and away from the middle of the root area where its needed. Adding a zyme product OR H202 will help but only in the spots inside the red bucket that it can reach. Without fresh air, water and nutes to the rootball eventually you will get root rot or another root disease and could easily lose your crop.

GL if you go back through some of my older grow logs you'll see we've been fighting this issue for YEARS and never did find a good way around the problem despite drilling TONS of extra holes in the buckets among other things. We ended up going with some different and modified buckets instead of the red w/f's