"Cohort-development item","Fictional Lot A","Fictional Lot B","Actual cohort" "Intended product","Conventional tight head","Conventional tight head","" "Cultivar / cohort identity","Not specified in teaching example","Not specified in teaching example","" "Survival after shared cold event","No obvious leaf death","No obvious leaf death","" "Vegetative framework","Ample development","Undersized plant","" "Tight-head observation","No prematurely visible small head","Small tight head already visible","" "Open-flower observation","Not reported","Not reported","" "Nursery development timeline","Requires actual record","Requires actual record","" "Temperature exposure / plant condition","Same event assumed; earlier history unresolved","Same event assumed; earlier history unresolved","" "Other growth-limiting stress evidence","Unresolved","Unresolved","" "Product-development question","Does the cohort fit the intended cultivar/product program?","Does premature head formation change the original product expectation?","" "Nursery / adviser interpretation","Not determined by illustration","Not determined by illustration","" "Sales expectation after review","No head-size guarantee","Do not promise equality from survival alone","" "Use","Manual record; no formulas, cold-dose thresholds or automatic rejection.","Import UTF-8 comma-separated text; widen and wrap; save a spreadsheet copy.","Fill actual-cohort column. Keep tight buds, open flowers and deliberate small-stem product identity separate." "Source context","https://blog-fruit-vegetable-ipm.extension.umn.edu/2021/03/2021-considerations-brassica-bonanza.html","University of Minnesota Extension; updated April 2, 2026; regional high-tunnel context.","One supporting extension source. Original fictional lot comparison. No universal cause, threshold or rescue schedule."