"Plant-pathway item","Fictional Plant A","Fictional Plant B","Fictional third plant","Actual plant" "Plant identity / scion / rootstock","Not specified","Not specified","Not specified","" "Union position relative to surface","Visible above surface","Visible above surface","Union identifiable","" "Organ observed","Root","Root","Leafy shoot","" "Origin relative to union","Below","Above","Below","" "Organ reaches growing medium","Rootstock roots in medium","Scion-origin root reaches medium","Not a scion-root observation","" "Potting / settling / added-material history","Not supplied","Additional substrate added","Not supplied","" "Anatomical interpretation","Rootstock-origin pathway","Direct scion-to-medium pathway","Rootstock regrowth","" "What visibility alone establishes","Union can be identified","Does not exclude a scion-root bypass","Does not identify every organ","" "Disease / benefit conclusion","Not established","Potential alternate route; no disease diagnosis","Not established","" "Nursery / adviser question","Confirm origin if uncertain","Assess actual pathway and appropriate response","Confirm shoot identity and appropriate response","" "Unresolved origin or contact","","","","" "Use","Manual observation card; no formulas or disease score.","Import UTF-8 comma-separated text; widen and wrap; save a spreadsheet copy.","Record organ type, origin and medium contact separately. No cutting, uprooting or treatment instructions.","Keep unknowns unresolved rather than guessing anatomy." "Source context","https://ag.purdue.edu/department/hla/extension/extension-publications-library/ext-pubs/ho-260-w.html","https://extension.psu.edu/to-graft-or-not-to-graft","Healed graft anatomy and scion-root bypass mechanism only.","Examples are fictional; no universal surface-clearance distance or loss percentage."