Mother Scheduling & Capacity Planning at Scale
The production-math layer above single-mother care: converting a flower-room turn schedule into a weekly cutting demand, sizing the mother bench with buffers, staggering mother rotation so output never dips, and staging clean replacements through a rolling refresh — with a worked example.
The mother room is a supplier with a delivery schedule
Single-mother care (light, feed, pruning, screening) was covered earlier. Scheduling is the layer above it: treating the mother bench as an internal supplier that must deliver a fixed number of rooted, uniform, clean cuttings every single week to feed a perpetual-harvest flower schedule — without a dip when mothers are rotated or a keeper is culled. Miss a week of cuttings and the gap propagates all the way down the pipeline into an empty flower room months later. So mother capacity is planned like any production line: from demand, backward, with buffers and staggering.
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