Can a plant be too dense?

nomoresnow said:

Thanks for the thoughts and tips. Since I stopped feeding them and gave a mini flush they seem to be doing better. The older growth is still damaged but not getting worse and the new growth is coming in at a good pace. Will probably transplant tomorrow or the next day.

The plants are in clear cups so I can watch the root progress but those cups sit inside red cups so no light gets to the roots.

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Light still gets threw the red cup too enough to mess with the roots sometimes wrap it or get a thicker cup to set the clear cup in something thats real dark but if your transplant soon jus dont trip jus get bigger pot u be good

After years of doing this I don't care about "seeing" the roots other then at transplant.....I still when transplanting "smell" the roots as I can tell a lot about how their doing by the smell of the media around the root ball and the exposed roots them selves....any other odor other then nice "earthy humus" smell indicates a problem somewhere....."gassy" smells indicate some type of rot in something and grainy or alcohol smells mean fermentation - most likely anaerobic involved......Ammonia or spicy smells mean someone didn't cook the soil long enough and should have smelled that before using it, because the amendments are still being broken down !

Just something I picked up a cpl a decades ago...lol

Doc