Over/ under watered

[Brwnthmb]

This photo shows the drooping leaves in the middle portion of the plant. My first inclination was that the plant needed more water. However, the upper leaves are cupped down and the pot feels heavy, like it has water in it.
Therefore I’m thinking now to let the plant dry out some and ignore the drooping leaves (ignore that they seem non-turgid).
Ideas?/ opinions?

[2ShedsJackson]

Soil or coco?

[Brwnthmb]

Soil, cloth pot

[Allotrope1000]

Hi, Brwn.
I am assuming you are growing in soil, since my experience is coco/perlite is next to impossible to overwater.
Let the plant dry out and see if it recovers. BTW, if you have over watered a soil grow, the plant is suffocating from lack of O2 at the roots. It might take a few days to start growing again.
I cannot see your pot. Fabric pots allow much better air/root circulation than solid wall plastic nursery pots.

[Brwnthmb]

Thanks for your response.
I went against your suggestion (and my convictions) that the roots needed O2 not H2O and watered it, so I probably made it worse not better. But what pushed me towards watery was that yesterday I had the problem of wilting on half the leaves and I didn’t water, then today all the leaves were wilted. However, I didn’t aerate the soil yesterday either.
Today I aerated and watered, so it’s not the best test but maybe the plant will recover. (And I realize that water will fill the pockets where the aeration is done so that the only O2 comes from dissolved oxygen in the water.)
Thanks for your input. I hope we both are wrong and the water will save it!

[Brwnthmb]

The photo below is today. The entire plant wilted as you can see. I aerated the soil with a pencil and may should’ve waited until tomorrow but I didn’t. I put 0.75 liters of water in the (3 gallon cloth) pot. The pot felt heavy I guess I wasn’t sure of my convictions because everything tells me that the roots were starved of O2 not H20.
We’ll see what it’s like tomorrow.

[2ShedsJackson]

I think you need to stop with the water ASAP! Next time use Coco. As Allotrope1000 says, it's almost impossible to overwater with coco if you prep it right to begin with. ie sieve out the coco dust before you start.