Plant looks overwatered but not?

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  1. Ok so this is the second plant this happened to and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Transplanted to bigger pot.....watered so that roots could make contact with water.....it's been maybe a week it seems and 1. The pot still feels heavy........2. I took out plant to look at the roots (I dont care if I kill it I need to figure this out) the roots were sticking out like spiky looking as if they didn't grow that much since transplant and seem on the dry side. A lot of the soil on the outside was dry but inside seemed a tiny damp.....like perfect conditions for roots honestly. Maybe I somehow compacted the soil too much causing me to put too much in the fabric pot? These top leaves are curling down like rolling themselves into a joint.....don't get it....looks overwatered but been a week. Roots looked white and fine.......I put in way more perlite and put root ball back in pot and restarted just now maybe I didnt water the correct part of the soil when first transplanted and just hit the rootball itself?
     

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  2. I have plenty of other plants all do the same with every one and no issues with any other. Just this one. Looks like the claw.....seems stunted.....watered a week ago when transplanted. Top leaves just look rolly and curled down since. Let dry out leaves still weird looking......
     
  3. Also using roots organics and perlite. Ph is right. I did feed open sesame recently. With bb gb and tb
     
  4. 1. Transplanted into 2 gallon from 1 gal
    2. Was damp when transplanted but not just watered maybe 2 days prior....and watered more so roots could make contact with new soil.
    3 top leaves look like the claw and curled under
    4. Rest of leaves look fine
    5. Seems stunted
    6. Feels heavy still a week later but soil not that wet.
    7. There was some moist soil when just took out of pot but most was dry....roots kind of spiky sticking 1/2" out of root ball but root ball kinda small and not the tightest but not loose.
    8. Repotted with tons of perlite and some soil.
    Watered with ph'd water just now.
    9. Feels way lighter (I did use more perlite) but wondering if I compacted and used to much soil last time....(I pick up and drop pot on floor to make the soil settle when transplanting)
     
  5. Even if it was overwatered it should have recovered by now.......so what is the issue?
     
  6. i notice my plants look like that when it gets too cold for them or its a PH problem. If you know temps are good then I would say too much nutes and or water. Always PH the water to 6.5.
    I rec SIPs so it takes the too much too little water out of the equation FWIW. Let the fabric pot get light before watering again. We might be seeing some transplant shock so take that into account as well.
    so:
    check temps
    Let dry out
    ph water
    no nutes for now
    wait for recovery
     
  7. Thanks for responding. I ended up removing to look at the root ball and seemed like it was water logged from the watering a week prior....but was drying up...roots were probably suffocating....I transplanted again to lots of perlite in the mix and watered lightly again to try to get the roots to grow.....well 5 days later and still the same look and other plants around it growing. Im going to say it was a combo of overwatering, and the transplant....I overwatered when I transplanted and it just never recovered. Im doing bottom feeding now with perlite wrapped in black lawn fabric works so good
     
  8. I have a Healy bucket and it's awesome as well as a couple hydro buckets with air stones made myself
     

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