Day 11 flower. Leaves pointing up and down

Plants were showing symptoms of over watering since my last watering. I decided to leave it an entire week between watering and lifted the pots today to notice they were much lighter. They were not completely drained but the top 3 inches were dry.

90% of my plants had some form of droop today so I watered. This one particular strain that has the leaf issue has been a pain in the ass everytime I've tried growing it.

Anyway here's some pics. I didn't want to turn the LED/hps off due to not having a good flash light for pictures and couldn't take the plants out as they are in a scrog. I removed the top net for better pictures.

I also decided to cheap out this run and try a soil my mate recommended to me. It is extremely thick and had no aeration. Tried it and had issues with it constantly being water logged and not really sure what I can do to fix this other then waiting 7-10 days for it to dry out which Is really stunting growth

whats the soil called?

go go kid said:

whats the soil called?

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It's from a hardware store. It's got slow release and I really thought it would be bad but thought I'd try it anyway. Regretting it as it goes like muddy clay. Wished I mixed perlite in or just went fully organic but too late now

yeah. perlite is a must to ad to the soil ,without it, you get this problem, how mature is the plant, you could allways carefully dig it up and add some perlite and replant it again, ive had to do that on many ocasions testing out new potting composts

go go kid said:

yeah. perlite is a must to ad to the soil ,without it, you get this problem, how mature is the plant, you could allways carefully dig it up and add some perlite and replant it again, ive had to do that on many ocasions testing out new potting composts

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They have been in these larger pots for 4 weeks now. How would I add the perlite like fully pull it out and fill the bottom with perlite? Really hard to do anything with the scrog net in but I can pull it out if I really need to and put the net back on after

what i do, and im not recomending this at all, but i put the pot down onto its side and squeesed the pot all around to loosen the soil up enough to make easing it gently out of the pot, there was some tipping of the pot too obviously. then i used my bonso rake to ge the soil off of the roots without causing too much damage to the fine root system, mixed the soil and pearlite together, and just repotted it up again. i would say that it does cause the plant some shock and it has to re grow the roots out to the edges of the pot. so expect it to take a while to recover.
as i said, its not the best thing to do, but if the plants getting bogged in the pot, it may be worth the risk

Would you say root issues have caused the leaves to like like these pictures. Never seen this before looks so weird