Before X-C arrived you mean?

Ok the issue is INDEED lack of root space. We cut the smaller bucket apart (4 slits down sides....crack open leaving bottom intact and it is a MESS of crowded roots, fert, and crud It's like a bottleneck at the bottom and that's where the issue is imo.

We have flushed it as well as we can......I will show a pic in a few of what we got out in a afew but with four more weeks to go I seriously doubt this plant would be able to finish normally. As it is....I'll give it a day to see if it improves then it's gone. I don't have the slightest desire to put tons on energy into nursing a sick plant with a piss-poor (if ANY) yield at the end.