Watering a auto seedling properly.

you always want to saturate entire pot. leaving dry pockets is a recipe for failure. if the plant is droopy from basic irrigation, it is the fault of the potting soil not having good drainage qualities. the small circle thing is only important if you have put too small of a plant into too large of a pot... if you watered it properly it'd take 10+ days to be drunk and that's just stagnating water in the meantime.. this increases risk of root issues. you want to avoid this situation. it's completely avoidable and it's only a negative when doing it. with soil, you want to limit runoff, but ensure the entire thing gets wet. how often you fertilzie depends on how concetrated you make it. runoff just leeches off the amended nutes in the soil. this is a waste of money. you supplement the soil until you are fertilizing more heavily toward end. with a soilless substrate you fertilize every time and get 10% runoff or more to avoid buildup. foliar spray is a good idea for immediate help to a local issue - but only with the minerals that can actually traverse a stomata. plants get nutes from roots the most effectively. if you feed effectively there's no benefit to foliar sprays in regard to nutes, just a potential to overfeed due to ocd type perceptions - preventative stuff being a separate consideration. maybe it helps with seedlings or clones by reducing transpiration. it also increases risk of microbial growth. you don't want constantly wet plants.