Culture records
In plain words: Cultivator: plant records
How Cultivator identifies a plant, batch or fungi culture, tracks lineage through cuttings and splits, pins a growing profile and records observations.
- 1Repotting keeps identity; a cutting creates a linked child.
- 2Unknown species stays explicit.
- 3Corrections keep earlier claims; current views derive from history.
A cutting can start a new culture while its parent continues growing. A move to a larger pot preserves the existing plant. Culture records keep those two kinds of change distinguishable.
Identity and lineage
CultivatorCulture@1 represents a plant individual, sowing or planting batch, bed
cohort, perennial, or cultivated fungi culture. A stable identifier survives a change
of name, purpose, placement, or responsible person. Record species and cultivar when
known; an unknown identification remains explicit.
The record carries name, source and provenance, responsible people, profile revision, origin and lineage, current count or quantity intervals, and exact lifecycle and placement references. Quantity includes units and uncertainty; an estimate is not an exact census.
Propagation, division, and explicit group splits or merges retain parent references and their evidence. A cutting may establish a linked child culture. Transplanting or moving an existing plant preserves its identity. Repeated harvest does not create replacement cultures or silently terminate the source.
Pin the growing profile
The growing profile explains which reviewed requirements apply to this culture. Cultivator owns
that account as CultivatorGrowingProfile@1: stable identity and revision, applicable
species/cultivar or culture class, attributed sources and dates, reviewed cycle and tending
requirements with units and bounds, exclusions, unresolved cases, and reviewer.
cultivator.record_culture@1 may record it alongside the culture.
Review must still establish whether a source recommendation fits this culture and growing space. An active plan pins the reviewed profile revision; a replacement identifies which plans need fresh review. Ornamental, food, and fungi profiles share this record discipline while retaining their different cycles and care schedules.
Evidence graph
cultivator.record_culture@1 produces culture records and
CultivatorObservation@1 evidence. Observed symptoms, interpretations, and expert
findings remain distinguishable. An observation records its subject, effective time,
recorded time, source or actor, evidence references, units, uncertainty, and applicable
profile revision.
Later work must be able to trace these observations, so preserve exact parent and artifact references, correlation identifiers, and deduplication identity throughout the composition. A late report keeps its actual effective time. A correction retains the earlier claim and identifies what it supersedes; the latest view is derived from retained claims, rather than overwriting history. Replaying an event identity with different contents is a conflict unless admitted as an explicit linked correction. Culture, placement, cycle, plan, and work revisions remain independent; changing one cannot silently amend an already admitted action.
Placement, cycle, tending, work, and harvest records join through exact references. No helper infers a missing collection, completed action, or healthy state from a gap in that graph. Purpose-scoped media references carry retention context and access boundaries alongside the evidence they support.
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