First, let's fix some potential misconceptions and habits.
Watering s easy.
1) water entire pot -- you do not pick the volume, you give enough to saturate the entire thing.
2) wait for top layer to dry and repeat. this is diffrent for differing water capacities of the substrate. With a 'soil' you wait for top 1" to dry before repeating. something lke coco coir holds 2/3rds the water per volume and you water a bit sooner than that dry back.
Regardless of substrate used, if you irrigate at same loss of weight, it will require the same volume of water.
you cannot fuck up irrigating if you follw these simple concepts. If you get any droop after irrigation, that's due to a poorly constituted medium -- more perlite or similar is needed to avoid drowning roots from basic watering habits. Any problems seen will be about your choices of fertilization and not your irrigation habits.
over/underwatering is easy to avoid. simply don't do it. You can fix your habits now, but if your substrate doesn't have goodo drainage properties, you can't really add extra perlite midstream. could add more to any up-potting that remains.