How much water and how often?

It's still as needed. I find the amount of water data point on the diary itself kinda useless. Good Luck! ***disclaimer, multiple people are answering all questions as there is a contest called GOTM, when a user is selected as the answer they get a point. Please see the contest page for information regarding the details: growdiaries.com/giveaways/GotM-August-2022 Please note, when you reply to anything on the questions part of Growdiaries website, no one will be notified of this. Not even if you use a "@" tag in their name. Best to reach out to them in DM using your inbox, it can be found in the bottom right hand corner of the site. It's the small paper airplane button, it will be highlighted green if you have new messages***

make sure that moisture goes to the bottom or you'll get more superficial roots than you want. As long as you have sufficient perlite or similar in the soil, you can't really go wrong. if it exhibits signs of overwatering, consider more perlite or similar next time. 50/50 for soil is great... may incerase rate of irrigation, but will lead to healthier, happier plants with fewer headaches along the way and you'll neer worry about this so-called "over/underwatering" thing cuase that's a mate of drainage 9/10 times. 1 gallon is small and you have a small plant.. so, make sure the whole theing gets wet -- some runoff is good... extra runoff is just leeching you soil of any amended nutrients it came with out of the bag, but nothing crazy bad either.. so less is more. Again, if any negatives fom this, it is the lack of drainage in the soil which you'd want to fix "next" time or whatever it transplants into. it's small enough pot it won't remain overly wet for a long period of time... the 2nd or third irrigaiton will speed up quickly by comparison. learn weight of when it is 'dry' and if you water at that same point it'll roughly need the same volume each time, which makes planning and mixing nutes a bit easier for you. just need a sec for the roots to grow. it'll dry/dunk faster each cycle... the first cycle may be a bit slow but not long enough to rot anything.

What you want to do is keep the soil around it MOIST (not wet)... let it dry out between waterings. To actually water it, try spraying the soil as opposed to pouring water ... and have a tissue ready to soak up any water that may get on the leaves from the spray. You might need to spray the soil every day or twice a day... it just depends on when the soil dries out... but DO let it dry out before giving it another drink. Good luck!