How many auto plants

You're fine as long as you don't leave too many lower nodes in the plant, if you do they will bush out, but if you can maintain just the top and middle layers then you got them taking all the light to form a structure that stays more compact, or just top em low and they will grow less branches but having just 4 nodes would give you 8 branches wich become really easy to manipulate and make them all get along fine. The less branches you got the bigger the buds will become, but overall you get the same weight as long as you don't stress the plants too much. With the right training you got people who grow 16 plants in 1m², i've done 9 in a 80x80cm(2.7x2.7), and i didn't even train mine much, it was more of am experience for future reference.

Hi Jane! having too many plants is never good , but having too much of anything is never good right? basically if you're a high intensity commercial grower there's the temptation to do multipl staggered layers of clones or putting too many large plants too close to eachother. But in the tent , at this scale, and the way you did it is absolutely fine. essentially it's a question of space : can the plant get enough light and can you water them appropriately? if yes, then it's not a problem, if not then it is a problem. There is research that confirms plants communicate through their root systems, and the aboriginals say that plants dont like to be alone in a pot or planted in monocultures though... so what i like to do is add "companion plants" to the pot, look it up if you dont know, but basically you add other types of plants to your same pot if you think your plant might get lonely lol. take from that what you will, hope this helps ! 🚀

Yes, because if the plant doesn't have enough space to stretch out it really can't reach its full potential. I've made this mistake several times and paid for it at harvest time.

It can...it doesn't mean it will. Depends on the way you run your space. Gl