keithp2012 said:So your saying the small but frequent watering have been too much?
I think what you have described is what I would call bottom watering, which is putting a pot in a tray of water and allowing the water to percolate up into the soil over time. If you are doing this for an hour in a reasonable depth of water, you are watering to completion. At least by my standards. This is a method I regularly use for young seedlings (which require proper saturation of the soil) and I normally declare victory after 20 minutes or so. Now if you were soaking the plant itself, that's a different story and not something I have ever tried.
In my own experience I have found that too much attention to plants can often be more dangerous than too little... it's always a balancing act, in any case.
