All sorts of great advice you’ve gotten. I’ll just add this…when the top half inch of soil is dry to the touch its time to check to see if you must water. The weight test mentioned before is best. Sometimes in a hot grow room during lights on the top part of the soil will dry out as the bottom stays very wet…so its good to check the container weight. ( mulch fixes this issue with uneven moisture levels.
I often run low on time, so i need to water quickly. I go through all the plants once with a small amount of water,( a third maybe) wetting the surface as much as possible and by the time I am done doing this (usually due to being distracted) it has been around 20 minutes or 30 minutes. Perfect. I go back through a second time and fill each contaner to the top quickly with water. I usually have my soil about 3/4 inch below the lip of the cup or container so whatever amount of water it takes to reach the top of that container works very well. By watering twice you will avoid dry pockets in the soil which can form when water follows roots( like highways) right out the bottom of the cup without wetting the soil much. All the substrate gets moist.
. Roots need as much air as water, and as soil dries it pulls fresh air down into the depths of the dirt. When you water the air is forced out and an air exchange occurs as the process repeats. Healthy roots, big fruits. When you see uniform light colors in plants, if it isn’t ph/ food issues its likely overwatering/ lack of O2 in the root zone.
Good call to up pot. That’s my go to fix.
Just make sure ur grow container has good drainage and splash some on till u get about 10-20% runoff and don’t water for another 5-7 days, I don’t think it’s how much ur watering but rather the frequency. My indoor plants are getting watered once a week and my greenhouse ones been getting twice a week
Temps indoors is around 80 for me and outdoors we been 105 already with less than 5% humidity
Roots only uptake water from their root tips and only grow when they are actively seeking water, because of this, bottom watering is recommended for plants with under-developed root systems.
Using containers that have a water reservoir in the root zone are completely feasible, otherwise, growing hempy style would not work.
Is a hempy similar to the method of a sub-irrigated planter? I’ve been looking into maybe building one of those if I have to repot again
Great news! Because of all the amazing advice I was giving, my three plants are recovering!
I definitely want to get the other four out of the cups asap. Gotta find some more pots first
Agree, but that water should not permanently touch the soil or you risk having root rot. Bottom watering is great if you put the right dose so it doesn’t stay there for ages and let it dry … 
Here’s a basic schema, you fill until the water goes out the hole. Haven’t tried them as I don’t like soilless, you may give them a chance. Glad your plants are recovering … 
Here’s your Google for research purposes on Hempy Buckets “all perlite hempy bucket KISS,” or “hempy bucket Lucas Formula.”
It’s really really easy to do all perlite, maxibloom, or Jack’s 3-2-1. Many people love coco, but it’s a pain to me, and perlite is easy, just watch the dust. 
Hempy is a mix between full hydro and soil, it gets the benefit of explosive growth of hydro while allowing the Gardener to hand water/feed. You can also literally customize any solid walled bucket/chamber to make into a hempy. I love to re-use gallon jugs or cat litter jugs. I have also grown for a party cup challenge on RIU a 24 gram Abusive Kush 12/12 from seed in a 16oz hempy solo cup. 
The method I learned from was Doc Bud’s 2 liter SOG from ICMAG back in the day 2010ish, single cola producing 10-14 grams placed right into flowering as soon as the cuts showed roots. It’s a hard to find thread now, he does the whole BRIX sugar testing method that he sells now, but the 2-liter SOG was super innovative.
Probably the best way except flood and drain to do a SOG from clone IMHO. I also love it to pheno hunt. Can look at lots of plants in a 2x2 with solo cups.
Anyway, I’m getting lost in the weeds 
lovely garden and I’m glad you got the issue fixed, they will recover well now! 
AzSeaindooin420I am in Arizona too; quick question, where do you get mushroom soil at?
Home Depot sells it for 2.50 a bag, I did notice this year it being a lil hard to come by at some locations, for my area bullhead and Havasu didn’t seem to have any this year but Kingman was sitting on 300 bags
Yep looking in Cottonwood so? Need to mix up your recipe, decided that I need to do better job on the mothers since I got a good one I want to keep around. Thanks!
Just looked up your cotton wood store, they got 551 bags in stock
Thanks Brother 
I am making soil!
Hempy buckets are a form of passive hydro. The original was all perlite, but people do soil / perlite blends, straight soil, straight coco. Basically a bucket with no holes in bottom, but one hole on the side two inches from the bottom. Fill with perlite to the hole, and the rest of the way with your medium of choice. I have settled on 1/2 soil, 1/2 perlite. Your water from the top, and the volume of the bucket below the hole acts as a reservoir for the plants. Nice and simple. Usually uses a really simple salt fertilizer. There is tons of info out there if you Google it.
PS, I saw in a different thread of yours that you are using the tall Folgers cans for your plants, that is a proven hempy container. I collect them from my neighbors haha.
Thank you for the information! I’ll do more research. From a quick look over it looks like I have all parts on hand, probably will put one together to see how it works for me. My first grow i thought it was a good idea to go full hydro, quickly got in over my head. This sounds like a happy middle ground