That's a good question, zuzu. Here's how the databox information is transmitted:
1) When a plant is marked as a parent plant (by me) the system looks, finds all the child plants, and copies the databox over.
or
2) When a new plant is added, the system checks to see if it is a child plant of a parent. If it is, it grabs the databox from the parent and copies it into the newly created plant.
or
3) When the databox information for a parent plant is updated in any way (and because of the far-reaching ramifications, I am the only person permitted to change a parent entry) all the children plants are updated.
I'm pretty sure that only those three cases exist where data is copied in. So existing plants should be entirely unaffected.
New plants added, in those unusual cases where the data doesn't apply, could be updated to remove whatever was copied in that doesn't belong.
