Your watering habits are bad based on your description. you seem to want to choose how much water you give. don't do that.
water entire pot. Wait for top 1" to dry, then repeat. how often you add fertililzer depends on how concentrated you feed.. is it soilless or soil etc etc...
a little runoff ensures soil was fully saturated. if soilless, you want 10% runoff minimum.
is this an indoor or an outdoor plant. if oyu took an indoor plant and put it outside in the sun, it will droop like that even if watered recently. the sun is much, much stronger than artificial lighting. if it evolved outside, the density of chorophyl would adapt to the level of light given. so, if this is the case, other adapt it to the outside, which takes time or just avoid the sun.
this looks like underwatering to me. 37C outside is hotAF for plants, too. if sun is hitting the black pot, maybe the substrate temps is going nuts.