Noob question about watering

Watering depends on plants sizes and pots sizes…. Avoid this: -Big plant in a small pot -Small plant in a big pot -Watering small volumes too frequently Just lift your pots every 2, 3, days and check the weight.

Never water to a fixed schedule or with a fixed amount. Water to run-off (like you have been doing), then do not water again until the top inch to inch and a half/3-5 cm are completely dried out again, be that one day or five days. Sticking your finger in the pot is a fairly reliable "moisture meter". The time it takes will depend on many things - type of substrate, size of pot, size of plant, temps and individual plant needs. With time and experience, you will eventually "just know" when and how much to water.

In my opinion, there isn't really a fixed watering schedule during the vegetative stage. It's better to water based on the condition of the medium and the weight of the pot rather than the calendar. If your pots still feel heavy after 3 days, I'd wait longer before watering again. Overwatering is usually caused by watering too frequently, not by giving too much water at once. Personally, I prefer watering thoroughly until the entire medium is saturated and I get a small amount of runoff. Then I don't water again until the pot feels noticeably lighter. As the roots fill the pot and the plant gets bigger, the time between waterings will naturally become shorter. With a 7L pot, 20–23°C, and around 60% RH, there isn't one correct schedule. One plant might need water every 2–3 days, while another under the same conditions could easily go 4–5 days, depending on its size and root development. In my experience, the weight of the pot is the best indicator—not the calendar. Water when the pot becomes light enough, not simply because three days have passed. By the way, I recently completed a genetic cross by reversing a female plant, and I'm currently testing the F1 generation. I'd really appreciate it if you checked out my page and let me know what you think. 🙏💚👽

Then, wait longer. Watering is a reaction to how much water remains in the pot. How long a plant takes to drink it down will slowly speed up over time. So, it may be 4-5 days after you pot up, depending on the size difference and how developed the roots were when you did it. By the time it's fully grown even in a final pot, probably 1-3 days minimum. So, you got the right idea watering until you see 'some' runoff. If it's soil, it's good to minimize that, unless trying to dilute soil concentration. If it is soilless, you want 10% runoff or more, religiously. That avoids buildup in a soilless setup but just wastes pre-amended nutrition in soils. You still want to ensure full saturation. That is the correct way to do it. Think you pretty much have to treat light mix like a soilless within 2-3 weeks? Just has nutrition to start plants? If you ever are supplying 100% of the nutrition through fertilization, mimic soilless procedures. 1) saturate to runoff appropriate for method 2) wait for dryback and repeat i think the best way is to learn the feel of weight loss from, some use depth of dryness. If consistent, it will take the same volume but the time between will shrink except for cases of potting up to a larger volume of medium with no roots yet. A heavy soil you may want to wait for 1"deep. Something like coco holds a lot less water, and you trigger irrigation at change of color up top or even just before that point... again i think weight is the easiest to get familiar with. So, it's a reaction to something you observe as opposed to a pre-ordained schedule. Can't fuck it up if you stick to that understanding. Don't pick the volume. You give what it takes. Don't pick the frequency. You re-irrigate as a reaction to loss of weight (dryback).. No overthinking it. The other thing that will help greatly is a properly constituted medium. Doing so makes everything easier and proper aeration/oxygenation of soil. Heavy medium should have 50% perlite or similar. something like coco only needs 33% becuase it holds less to start. In the end, both 'base' media will result in a similar gas:water mix per volume, which how each is calculated in the first place. coco holds about 2/3rds the water of sphagnum peat moss, so it needs about 2/3rds the perlite to accomplsh same goal. Properly constitute a soil and it is impossible under normal common sense circumstances to overwater. you'd have to be forrest gump to accomplish it, lol. Sit there and run water through it with a shit-eating grin for 15-20 mins and it might droop, lol.