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  "pack": "HANDEL_PLANT_CHOICE",
  "version": "v0.1",
  "supersedes_disposition_of": "HANDEL_DECISION_PACK_v0_3_HOLD",
  "date_pt": "2026-09-24 ~5:50 PM PT",
  "hub_job": "bf383775-2919-4a3e-ad4b-40c9e106d5be",
  "executor": "grok",
  "idempotency_key": "grok-handel-plant-choice-v0_1-20260924",
  "status": "PLANT",
  "disposition": "PLANT",
  "decision": "PLANT",
  "best_option": "C3",
  "best_option_level": "system_class",
  "runner_up": "C2",
  "plant_recommendation": true,
  "plant_recommendation_scope": "class_level_C3_freestanding_conditional",
  "capital_ask": false,
  "capital_theater": false,
  "invented_spend_amounts": false,
  "real_capital": "OWNER_GATED_NOT_AUTHORIZED_BY_THIS_PACK",
  "capital_note": "Owner selecting plant option; no spend invented",
  "freeze": "NO",
  "never_james": true,
  "no_asks_to_james": true,
  "owner_delta_plant_choice": {
    "frost_u6": "OWNER_ACCEPTED_residual_part_of_the_game",
    "plant_selection": "OWNER_DIRECTED",
    "source": "OWNER_parent_authoritative_2026-09-24"
  },
  "site_lock": {
    "address": "8650 E Handel Rd, Lodi, CA",
    "apn": "063-060-32",
    "acres_gross": 38.82,
    "acres_decision_strip": 13.0,
    "geometry_rule": "unplanted_strip_toward_E_Handel_Rd",
    "existing_planted_varieties": [
      "Chelan",
      "Coral"
    ],
    "existing_framing_class": "C3_continuity_context_not_automatic_winner",
    "soils": "CONFIRMED_Kingdon_Tokay",
    "pits": "OWNER_WAIVED_U4_CLOSED",
    "water_adequacy": "OWNER_ASSERTED_gate_CLOSED",
    "district_boundary": "NSJWCD_WITHIN"
  },
  "best_means": {
    "definition": "Among live CONDITIONAL classes C2/C3/C7/C9, the class best fitting this strip given closed soils/water/pits, OWNER_ACCEPTED frost residual, Lodi chill regional screen, and Chelan+Coral continuity — class-level only using frozen card archetypes",
    "not_claimed": [
      "Phase2_production_PASS",
      "named_nursery_clone",
      "Dynamic_CP_parcel_clearance",
      "capital_authorization",
      "net_plantable_acres"
    ]
  },
  "ranking": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "id": "C3",
      "bundle": "Low-/mod-chill early package (Coral-class + pollenizers) · freestanding",
      "overall": "CONDITIONAL",
      "why": [
        "PASS_REGIONAL_SCREEN_F1_chill_class_fit_Lodi",
        "Chelan_Coral_ops_continuity",
        "early_frost_demotion_neutralized_by_OWNER_ACCEPTED_frost",
        "freestanding_matches_existing_orchard_style"
      ],
      "residual_risks": [
        "F2_early_rain",
        "early_frost_residual_ACCEPTED",
        "U7_packer",
        "U8_labor_peak",
        "chill_proxy_bias_TreeChill",
        "pollenizer_package_unproven"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "id": "C2",
      "bundle": "Staggered CA commercial mix · Mazzard · freestanding conventional",
      "overall": "CONDITIONAL",
      "why": [
        "broadest_harvest_rain_risk_spread",
        "can_include_Chelan_class_early_plus_Coral_plus_mid_placeholders"
      ],
      "residual_risks": [
        "multi_window_design_complexity",
        "F2_rain",
        "F8_packer",
        "F1_rest_break",
        "U6_ACCEPTED"
      ],
      "role": "runner_up"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "id": "C7",
      "bundle": "Krymsk 5/6 · Spanish bush/KGB · med density · no full trellis",
      "overall": "CONDITIONAL",
      "why": [
        "architecture_axis_may_overlay_C3_or_C2_scions",
        "not_mutually_exclusive"
      ],
      "residual_risks": [
        "F6_U8_training_crew",
        "F7_training_year_cash",
        "unlogged_rooting_depth",
        "higher_tree_count_capital_path"
      ],
      "role": "optional_architecture_overlay"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "id": "C9",
      "bundle": "Self-fertile mid/late (Lapins/Sweetheart-class) · freestanding",
      "overall": "CONDITIONAL",
      "why": [
        "weakest_fit_vs_existing_early_orchard_and_Lodi_early_framing"
      ],
      "residual_risks": [
        "F8_mid_late_channel_weak",
        "F2_cultivar_x_year",
        "less_Chelan_Coral_continuity"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "best_option_detail": {
    "system_class": "C3",
    "scion_archetype_frozen_cards_only": "Coral Champagne-class primary; Brooks- and/or Bing-class pollenizer framing — placeholders not compatibility proof",
    "continuity": "existing Chelan + Coral on APN",
    "rootstock_architecture_default": "conventional freestanding (Mazzard or Krymsk 5/6 per cards); architecture not locked to C7",
    "optional_later_overlay": "C7 Krymsk + Spanish bush/KGB no full trellis",
    "density": "not newly claimed; public cost proxy ~134 tpa study class only — not 2026 bid",
    "overall": "CONDITIONAL"
  },
  "changed_vs_v0_3": {
    "disposition": "HOLD -> PLANT",
    "frost": "NARROWED_not_waived -> OWNER_ACCEPTED_residual",
    "system_pick": "none_banned -> BEST_OPTION_C3_class",
    "water_soils_pits": "unchanged_CLOSED",
    "production_PASS": "still_0",
    "asks_to_james": "none"
  },
  "pass_reconciliation": {
    "production_PASS_count": 0,
    "process_PASS_count": 1,
    "process_PASS_ids": [
      "C12"
    ],
    "path": "a_owner_override_plant_with_best_CONDITIONAL",
    "path_b_class_meets_production_PASS": false,
    "honesty": "Do not fake PASS; water closed + frost accepted remove decision holds but remaining Phase2 criteria unmet (F2/F8/U7/U8/F1 design/F7 bids)"
  },
  "scoreboard_counts_unchanged_phase2_rules": {
    "production_PASS": 0,
    "process_PASS": 1,
    "CONDITIONAL": 7,
    "CONDITIONAL_INSUFFICIENT": 4,
    "FAIL": 0
  },
  "live_conditional_classes": [
    "C2",
    "C3",
    "C7",
    "C9"
  ],
  "c12_note": "process PASS only — not plant permission; moot under owner-directed plant",
  "residuals": {
    "U6_frost_pocket": "NARROWED_OWNER_ACCEPTED",
    "F2_early_rain": "OPEN_CONDITIONAL",
    "U7_packer": "UNKNOWN",
    "U8_labor": "UNKNOWN",
    "paper_water_labels": "NON_GATING",
    "named_clone_pollenizer_proof": "NOT_ESTABLISHED",
    "capital_2026_bids": "OWNER_GATED",
    "net_plantable_acres": "UNKNOWN"
  },
  "packs_reused": [
    "HANDEL_DECISION_PACK_v0_3",
    "PHASE2_CANDIDATE_SHORTLIST_v0_1_1",
    "CONDITIONAL_COMPARISON_CARDS_v0_1_2",
    "CHILL_FROST_HEAT_LODI_v0_3",
    "handel-strip-13ac-epqs-transect-v0-1",
    "NSJWCD_OPERATIONAL_CONSTRAINTS_v0_4",
    "OWNER_SITE_FACTS_v0_4",
    "PARCEL_LOCK_v0_1",
    "ESTABLISHMENT_COST_PUBLIC_RANGES_v0_2_1"
  ],
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  "artifact_sha256_json": "0cc7f6c7a9edea1fbedbfc51ec8ad933cc402aa7e48c94f7e34e346622c9d0f7"
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