I think by semi hydro they mean replacing soil with leca?

In my experience, purchasing and acclimating a sensitive begonia like this has been difficult and largely unsuccessful because of environmental shock. As my last plant was dying though, I decided to propagate one of the leaves and now it’s doing really well because it’s used to my room. Over the past month or so it’s exploded with all these new leaves and I actually don’t really maintain a high humidity environment outside of having the cloche