Proper way to water?

proper way to water is to give water only when the soil has dried out. Again, a moister meter, or finger chk, will help you or go with SIPs and take the grower input out of the equation. I say this bc you cannot see if soil is dry by lifting pot to chk its weight due to scrog net. Temps and the size of the plant, medium it is in, and how big the pot is will determine the watering schedule. It is not a fixed amount every day or every other day unless you have grown the strain before and conditions are always the same each grow.
Your plants are not looking well at all.
1)Please chk the ph of your plain water and of the nute solution. IMPORTANT
2)Did you turn up the lights yet? What are the temps in the tent with lights on and what is it with lights off?
3)How far away are the lights?
4)Do the fabric pots sit in the drip pans that the excess water runs from out of the pot?
5) shake bottles of nutes well before mixing...always
There is a lot going on here to sort out. Also, your plants wont change overnight when you add something or remove something. It will take a week to see results.

 

How old are the plants? Also are they still on a veg schedule or have you flipped the lights to 12/12 yet?

I ask because I'm growing very similar to you (autos and photos, 7 gal pots, Ocean forest makes up the bulk of the medium though some other bag soil is used, also using the FF bottled nutes when I need to.)

So me doing about the same thing (watering either every day or every other day, nutes maybe 1-2 times per week) as you are, here is what I'm looking at 6 weeks in (about to flip to 12/12 but I have not yet, so these are still straight veg mode, and right now they are running low on nitrogen, which if I don't get off my lazy but and fix they will end up I suspect as faded as your plants or the edges of the plants in the foreground of my shot). Here is how bad they were looking a week ago vs the newer, much healthier growth once I got my situation sorted.


Normally my plants look better but my dumb butt didn't notice for 2 weeks that the timer was flipped to "on" and not "timer" so they had about 13 days of 24/7 light, causing them to fade a good bit, but they are recovering nicely. (Plant tips on the foreground edges show the damage caused by light stress + not enough nitrogen coupled with a need for a bit of cal-mag on my plants at least)

Here is a Gelato photo from another bay that didn't get drop kicked in the face by Helios for 2 weeks that looks much healthier overall (still need to up the nitrogen on her a bit, esp in preparation for stretch, once again she broke soil like the second week of Sept so approx 6 weeks old. (pay no mind to the faded G13 autos behind her, they are just fading out as they cross into the final month or so of their cycle)

I've also got some autos going, ranging from great looking to also a bit raggedly (the sun god tent had a mix of both at the time)

Anyway, I don't want to flood you with all the details, but feel free to check out my most recent journal, which will have detailed notes on how often I feed and water the plants from day 1 until current (I update it about 2x per week as the plants grow).

Indoor dirt growing for the lazy person / 4 strains

The first several pages are a lot about background gear for folks on their very first grow, but I've added some links to the journal so you can navigate straight to the veg section and see what I do and how often every week.

I make no claims that this is the best way, but its about the easiest I've found so far, and what I don't know about growing could fill a 40,000sqft greenhouse, but I get about a 1/2 to 3/4 a lb of dried down bud per plant depending on strain or type regularly, so I feel like my grows are often a decent pace car of sorts.

Anyway I hope there is something in there that can help you out mate, as you seem to have all the same tools and setup I do (or close enough). (this link goes right to a post on feeding in veg if your in a hurry)

Indoor dirt growing for the lazy person / 4 strains

Best of luck mate, hope this helps, apologies if it didn't, and remember, there are a LOT of ways to grow weed sucessfully, mine is just one and I make no claim that its any better than anyone elses.

 

temps are too low. you want to be around 80F.
Good on turning up lights and height is good.
Tap water is too alkaline at 8.4. shoot for nute solution and plain water to be at 6.3 to 7.0. I stay around 6.5 to 6.8. Use a digital ph meter. Pool strips are not accurate enough IMHO. I am curious what your nute solution ph is. I bet that is your problem.
If I were you, I would remove trellis net so I can lift the pots to chk how light they feel.
I would repot the plants with fresh soil in fresh pots. This is to remove any salts out of the equation and PH of current soil mix.
pay strict attention to watering
ph water and nute solutions every time you water
raise temps a little too to a constant 80ishF.
If new pots and soil are used, dont add nutes for a couple weeks.
If you dont change soil/pots then do all the other aforementioned
Hang in there.

 

In your other post . I did not see where you said the temps got down to 50f That also can cause discoloring usually purple leaves . under 50 i expect to see issues . Keep temps over 55f . better over 60f . Keep doing what i told you in the other post .

 

No problem mate, and we are almost growing concurrently, my photos for this crop broke ground around sept 26!

Anyway, if you need anything or have any questions, feel free to stop into the journal and take whatever you can find helpful or if you have any additional questions on how I'm running this grow (Ocean forest soil, grow big, big bloom, tiger bloom and cal-mag are basically all I normally use)

 

yes they must recover before you flip to 12/12 imho for a successful flower.