All that is unnecessary. If you have uploaded a photo to the database it will automatically appear in your plant list.
This is what I believe is how the system chooses what to display in the plant list. Perhaps
@dave can verify if I am correct.
If you have no photo in the database, then the priority photo from the database will display.
If you upload a photo to the database then your photo will display.
If you upload more than one photo of the same plant then the first photo you uploaded first gets displayed
If you upload more than one photo and they start to accumulate thumbs up, then the one with the most thumbs up gets displayed.