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Grafted Node as Transplanted Knowledge in a Garden Patch

In horticulture, grafting takes a cutting (scion) from one plant and attaches it to another (rootstock) so it grows in a new context. A grafted node applies the same principle to knowledge: it is a node copied from a source garden and placed in a garden patch, where it grows alongside other nodes in a context different from its origin.

Grafted nodes carry their original content and relations, adapted to be self-contained within the patch. As the patch grows — new connections to target content, refined explanations, additional context — grafted nodes diverge from their upstream originals. These changes can be merged back to the source garden, carrying insights discovered through the patch context.

A grafted node is present and navigable — it has a file in the patch, and links to it are clickable. This distinguishes it from:

• A [[Patch-Native Node as Original Knowledge in a Garden Patch]] — born in the patch, not copied from upstream
• An [[Upstream Node as Source Garden Reference]] — exists in the source garden but not grafted here
• A [[Ghost Link as Unplanted Garden Stake]] — does not exist yet anywhere

Sources

• This garden patch — first instance of garden patch terminology

Relations

• relates_to::[[Garden Patch as Composable Knowledge Fragment]]
  • Grafted nodes are the building blocks of a garden patch.
• relates_to::[[Upstream Node as Source Garden Reference]]
  • The complement: upstream nodes exist in the source garden but were not grafted into the patch.
• relates_to::[[Ghost Link as Unplanted Garden Stake]]
  • The third category: references to nodes that do not exist yet anywhere.

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