Church 3 different defoliation methods

Week 6 getting off to a good start. The girls are no longer droopy and looking much happier. I guess they just needed to get used to the new pot. Or the 4.5L of water + aloe vera yesterday (which they also got sprayed with). Regardless, really happy with how they are looking now. -- They got 4.5 litres on Sunday, looked good on Monday, a little worse in Tuesday then by Wednesday morning they were droopy again. Since they well after watering and spray thought I'd water to make sure it was the water that made then well not the spray. So gave each 2l water in the morning, they had their night time and a few hours later they looked well again. Woke up this morning Thursday and they were droopy again. Since water helped yesterday, thought I'd water again. More water this time. Gave each 4l of water. BY Thursday afternoon they were looking good again but come Friday morning and they are wilting :S going to ask a question about this. The top 2 inches of soil always feel moist to me, even when the plant is droop, it is not really drying up. Friday evening, following advice from answer, I watered each with 5 litres until run off. Installed a Bluetooth sensor that tells me moisture level. It is about 5cms deep in the soil and says moisture is at 40% immediately after watering. The deep moisture print I have is now reading moist almost wet it was reading dry before, even after watering. So there is definitely more water in the soil. Saturday morning they were droopy again. Top Soil moisture is at 35%, gave just under a litre of water too each plant. Got run off again a few minutes later and soil moisture is at 35 still. Moved the probe closer to the plant where the soil in old pot was, moisture was at 22%, so water just around the plants some more. I've also loosened up the mulch as it was forming a layer that looked like rotting cardboard with white fungus. Maybe that was preventing oxygen from coming in? At time of writing the girls are still droopy and they have been water plenty. I'll leave them for now. Enough water last couple of days. Saturday evening the girls were looking good again, Sunday morning a bit more droopy, Sunday evening they were looking better again. Plant 1 looks particularly worse than the others. Maybe something to do with the fact it was transplanted from a cup unlike the other 2 that were in a 1l pot.