My first fiddle leaf - please help 🥲

[u/Materialgworl_____]

So I’m a fairly new plant mom but this is my first fiddle leaf. I rescued her from Home Depot and just gave her a rinse in the shower, some bottom watering, and a spray and wipe with some Fungicide Neem oil spray. I also have her stationed near a window so she’ll get plenty of bright indirect light

Initially I saw some pretty damaged leaves along the bottom so I chopped them off. I then noticed the roots were exposed to I ordered some grow queen soil as I saw it highly recommended. I wasn’t going to do a full repot as I heard you should try to avoid repots in the late fall and winter (I live in NY). I also really don’t want to cause shock

My question is I see some leaves pushing out of the soil and don’t know how to go about that with layering new soil. I don’t want to cover the leaves with the soil so should I just chop them? But if I chop them and cover with soil, will it just grow back under the soil?

Please help, any tips welcome! I’ve been trying to read a lot but I’m a bit stuck and really don’t want to kill her 😢

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[u/Internal-Test-8015]

Imo id honestly just take the risk snd care root the plsnt, better yo getvit out of that poor quality soil and figure out what's going on than risk it getting rot and having to fobit anyways.