Help with flood times ebb and flow

This is a repost since no one replied to my post:

fter transplanting my clones into straight hydroton from an aero cloner, how many times should I flood my buckets a day during veg? Right now I’m flooding every 3 hours, plants look slightly droopy. Should I maybe flood them less? I’m thinking maybe start with fewer floods and work my way up to every 3 floods an hour? Any help would be appreciated. Also, I’m using a recirculating ebb and flow system with buckets. Vegging under metal halide. Thanks!

I ran flood tables with 9” pots and hydroton for a few years. I used to flood for 15 min every hour for the whole run.

Yeah see I’m using buckets but not a flood table.. I was running every 3 hours last grow from start to finish but it seemed like every 3 worked well when it got into late veg and flower...

The plants seem droopy and not perky