Pineapple Chunk "Gifted"

1/27/22 Watered SLOWLY with 1.5 gallons RO with nutrients and supplements. Okay sooooo...I think I discovered the root cause of my problem. SOIL COMPACTION!!! I reviewed all things past and present. The ONLY thing I did differently on this grow were the following. 1) I always mix Perlite to my FFOF, evenly throughout the mix at about 3 to 1 FFOF to Perlite, respectively for the entire pot. This time I only added Perlite to the bottom 1/3 of the pot. 2) I NEVER compact the soil in the pot. This time I compacted the soil in the pot...fucking idiot!!! My remedy is to allow substrate to dry completely then massage fabric pot to loosen the substrate and also used a tool to break up the soil around the outside of the root ball without disruption of the root ball. All, at a severe risk, but at this point its the only option, other than transplanting the plant into another pot with new substrate. If I don't see improvement by this time next week I will transplant into fresh substrate. I will mix proper Perlite with FFOF. I will remove root ball and carefully remove as much substrate from the roots that will fall off naturally with gentle persuasion. Then carefully place in new substrate and then backfill to cover root ball up to point on main stem where the substrate originally sat. I will say this...I have culled two plants in my short time as a grower and they are actually very resilient and kinda difficult to kill. Even after cutting the main stem on one male, it continued to grow. I had to remove root ball and disassemble to actually kill it. The second male exhibited the same tolerance for torture and continued to thrive until root ball disassembly...lol. So, I know all this is VERY risky, but at this point there is nothing to lose. LESSON LEARNED!!!!!!!!! IN PH 6.10 TDS 688 EC 966 OUT PH 6.64 TDS 1003 EC 1461 I think the effort to break up the substrate failed and even after watering very slowly. The substrate just fell back into a compacted state, as I check the substrate level in the bag. Solid waterlogged bag of substrate. Once it dries out I will transplant to a fresh substrate...its the only option at this point. Uuuggghhh!!! 1/31/22 Watered with 1 gallon RO with root zone supplements. I removed plant from 5 gallon fabric pot and transplanted into a 10 gallon fabric pot. I gently removed as much of substrate from the roots as humanly possible without stressing the plant. The roots looked good as far as I could tell. I used Extreme Mykos Mycorrhizae and some other root zone supplements to encourage healthy root zone. I added Perlite to the FFOF substrate in the proper fashion and did NOT compress the substrate. I am confident there will no longer be a problem with drainage and root oxygenation. The substrate should properly drain and provide the necessary nutrients and oxygen to the root zone. That is of course dependent on my efforts and I have made mistakes in the past...lol. If she doesn't look good in a week or so, I will destroy and start anew. I only lightly watered per research recommendations. So, there was no real runoff to measure. IN PH 6.25 TDS 989 EC 1396