You need to clear out your preconceptions about watering. Start over.
You irrigate as needed. Tehre's not set schedule, though based on your substrate and temp/rh, size of plant vs pot size etc, it will eventually settle into a consistent schedule once fully grown. If you use the same products and grow the same sized plants etc, you can expect that sort of consistency in future grows too. Change variables, and the timing or ramp up might change also.
Don't over think watering. Don't make it some top-down perception. Reality dictates when and how much and nothing else.
1) Fully saturate. In soilless context, 10% runoff or more avoids buildup. In soil, runoff justs wastes amended nutrients. So, minimize it as best you can unless trying to fix a root zone issue, of course. You will quickly learn how much water is needed, retroactively.
2) Wait for appropriate dryback and repeat.
This ensures a proper drying pattern and trains roots to grow deeply as opposed to superficially. The wet-dry cycle, especially at the top, helps reduce risks of growing weird shit in your root zone.
In a heavy soil, you want to wait for 1" deep to dry before re-irrigating. It takes as long as it takes. Again, reality dictates, not some top-down conceived need to water. In something like coco that holds a lot less water, it needs an irrigation when the top starts to change color.. a supeficial drying is usually good enough. Above all, never let it wilt. That is waiting too long.
I think the weight loss over time is the easiest trigger to re-irrigate. You may need the above suggestion to callibrate how light it should feel before irrigating. If you consistently water at the same weight loss/light feeling, it will require a very similar amount of water each time. You learn the volume to provide in hindsight. Again, if you use the same medium, you can expect the same volume needed in future grows. You buy something new or add perlite to it, you will learn the new volume required.
You give what it takes. You wait as long as it takes. There are observable triggers that dictate watering schedule. Deviating because you are leaving for the weekend or some one-off need is less of a concern than consistently bad watering habits over time. The long-term effect is the concern.
Fully saturating should never cause droop. If it does, the substrate is poorly constituted and needs more perlite or similar so the roots are not deprived of o2 so easily.
In a soilless context you can push fertigation more frequently, but stick to the above in vege phase, or if you have an extended vege, later on etc. The more pronounced wet-dry cycle promotes developing more roots which can be better utilized by more frequent fertigation when it matters most - flower phase.