SoCal Outdoor Light Dep - Purple Push Pops

This is an outdoor light depravation run on 3 Purple Push Pops(PPP). Light dep means artificially removing a few hours of sunlight. It’s been about 40 days of moving 8 plants 2x a day, and that’s getting old….. but the results are amazing. ____________________________ This past week we struggled with many issues: heat over 90 degrees; big plants in small 5G coco pots demanding constant feeding. We cut one plant because it suffered from nutrient shock. Caterpillars are the arch enemy of growers in Southern California. And boy did they show up. 1cm long little fu€&ers. I got over 100 this week. That’s over 130 total budsites removed. Buds are just stacked. Cats are demolishing the top colas. Meanwhile limbs are leaning from their weight. Some limbs have fallen over from the weight. We have a hard decision to make on quality versus quantity. At this rate of caterpillar losses, even with BT, we’re looking at over 50% losses on yield if we continue, probably closer to 70%. Or, do we harvest now, knowing that the quality will be 20% -30% less than it could be?