Plant overwatered and roots broke on transplant... Need your opinions

Ok so I'm looking for some of your opinion on this please. My autos were about 6 weeks old and showed serious some signs of overwatering. Droopy day crispy leaves and yellow spots. My issue was I over packed the soil and they were not draining properly.

Here's what I did today. I took out the plants from the pots and removed the stone at the bottom of pots and loosened the soil it, was very wet. On removing the plants I did feel some deep roots break.

I mixed the soil and aired it and put the plants back in the pots and now I know drainage won't be an issue. I have now left them outside for the day to let some air at them until the go back in the tent this evening. I have also fitted a desk fan in the tent so it may dry the soil out quicker and I won't water them for a few days.

I'm just wondering in your opinions will breaking some roots destroy the plants or just stunt them. It was be essential that I fixed the drainage issue. Also any other advice from anyone that has has this issue??

You should be ok, they should recover, but being autos, from what I have been told on here, they should remain in the same container and be under as little stress as possible because they start flowering pretty much right away they dont have any time to recover and your bud can suffer when they are stressed to the point where they need time to recover. I have overwatered and learning the wet and dry cycles of the plant just comes with time. I typically water at the most every three days, but more regularly every five days, but it all depends on plant needs. I regularly stick my fingers as deep into the soil as I can reach, been thinking about trying a moisture probe. A little rule of thumb, if your dirts not dry to the bone, dont water it.

Thanks for the reply mate. Il definitely keep that tip in mind. Hopefully they will get going again. No sign of flowering yet so I might be lucky with these plants and not damage them too much.

Oh hey I almost forgot, when filling your pots with your soil mix, put a layer of high drainage material on the bottom 1" or about 10cm (im assuming your across the pond). I really like volcanic rock and pea gravel, perlite will also work. And make sure you have lots of tiny holes in the bottom of your pots. This will allow air in through the bottom of the pots and it makes it much more difficult to overwater your plants. If you already repotted I wouldnt repot again but just try it in the future.

I had this done originally but I just packed it all too tight so I removed the stone on the re pot unfortunately. And your right I'm across the pond!
Hopefully they will survive. Learnt an important lesson though.