- Find plants for each area of your home and garden
- Online Plant Library of 6,000+ plants
- Take the guesswork out of gardening
- Measures sunlight, light, soil drainage and soil fertility (subscription required for fertilizer measurement )
- Tracks plants in your personal My Plants database
Product Description
The EasyBloom Plant Sensor Plus gives a “plant’s-eye” view of your garden or home – telling you what plants to grow or what’s wrong with a sick plant. Patented technology recommends the right plant, flower, vegetable, tree, shrub or vine, for inside or outside. Stop wasting money and time on plants that aren’t right for your environment–know what to grow, right from the start. The reusable EasyBloom Plant Sensor Plus uses patent-protected sensors to measure sunlight, temperature, soil moisture and soil fertility. Soil fertility is a new feature with the EasyBloom Plus and requires a subscription. Use EasyBloom indoors or outdoors. Plug EasyBloom into the USB port on your MAC or PC, and your environment will be analyzed by our Plant Doctor Algorithms to recommend plants, or assess the health of your plant. Use the EasyBloom Plant Sensor over and over again, season after season, to help care for your plants and decide what to plant. EasyBloom’s web site gives you Plant Doctor advice on any sick plants. EasyBloom will tell you whether your plant needs water, light or fertilizer. (Subscription required to use fertilizer functionality). Also, get access to the EasyBloom 6,000+ Plant Library with information on when to plant, how to grow any plant, and plant care tips on everything from Azalea to Zinnias. EasyBloom gives you expert help in the palm of your hand. EasyBloom only works in the United States, and requires a PC or Mac and an internet connection.
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5 Responses
The EasyBloom Plus is a wonderful tool for both the beginner and the avid gardener alike; with the paid fertilizer subscription (sold separately) gardeners can now easily learn whether their plants are under- or over-fertilized in addition getting the Classic readings of sunlight levels, temperature, soil moisture, and humidity. The only thing the sensor is missing is the ability to read soil pH levels.
How it works: go to the EasyBloom/PlantSense website to open a free account and download the appropriate software for your platform, Mac or Windows. If you want to purchase a fertilizer subscription, you can also do that. When everything is set online, plug the top, removable portion of the device into a USB port connected to your computer. You will then automatically be taken to the website’s Dashboard area where you can set your sensor to “Monitor” or “Recommend,” depending on whether you want to track a specific plant or to get recommendations on what should work in that area. After the sensor is set, you connect the two halves again, water the area thoroughly, stick the sensor into the soil, and turn it on. Leave it in the ground for a few days. You then plug the top half into your USB port again, and the readings automatically upload to the website. Once you’ve set up the account, everything works quickly and efficiently.
To get an accurate fertilizer reading, you must wait for a complete watering cycle, however long that takes. The sensor chirps and blinks orange when the soil dries out, so it’s also a good indication when the plant needs water. I’ve kept the EasyBloom Plus in the soil for more than one cycle to see whether I’ve been giving my plants adequate water, and the readings provide a nice graph of the rising and falling moisture.
As with the Classic, you can use this either outdoors or indoors, although the sunlight feature doesn’t work with indoor grow lights. Pots must have more than four inches of soil since the base of the unit must be flush with the soil. Rain should not affect it — unless the sensor becomes submerged above the joint. And if you have any problems, customer service is excellent.
I really like the online plant library that PlantSense provides for both recommendations and selections to monitor. It seems to improve every month. Select options such as “deer resistant” or “spring bloom season” or “attracts birds” or “shrub” or all of the preceding to get planting suggestions for the particular area you’ve just recorded. I’d like to see the options expanded to include evergreens, but I’m sure they’ll add that category eventually.
When I reviewed the Classic EasyBloom Plant Sensor, I lamented the relatively simple set of readings. Now that they’ve added the fertilizer subscription option, I love it. The only thing that is keeping this from being my dream gardening device is the lack of pH readings, something I really hate to do using conventional methods. For instant, no-fuss pH readings, try Luster Leaf 1818 Rapitest Mini 4-in-1 Soil Tester. It also tests for fertility (no subscription), moisture, and light (only at that moment in time), but it isn’t as comprehensive or plant-specific; it also does not record the readings. Because the Easy Bloom can take days to give a good picture of fertility, I use the Luster Leaf as a quick-and-dirty test. For struggling plants, I find that the Easy Bloom, especially combined with the web site, gives a more complete picture.
If you want a unique housewarming gift or a present for someone who likes to garden, you’ve found your item. And while you’re at it, pick one up for yourself. (Note: I participated in the beta testing for this device; although I’m not an employee, I was able to use it extensively prior to its official release.)
– Debbie Lee Wesselmann
Rating: 5 / 5
Posted on September 4th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
This is a great product, but the software is not well thought-out.
You must subscribe to the EasyBloom service ($2 per month or $19 per year) to get fertility readings, as well as a firmware upgrade.
You are informed of the subscription requirement AFTER you have let it take an initial set of readings, reconnect it to a computer, and upload your initial readings. After you subscribe to the fertility reading service and take another set of readings, reconnect to the computer, and try to view your fertility results, you are informed of a firmware upgrade that is necessary to get the readings!
So… after several days of attempts to get fertility readings, I hope to get this thing to do what it’s advertised to do.
This seems like such a simple thing to fix. Tell the customer up-front that a subscription is required and a firmware update is required if you intend to use the fertility functionality of this tool.
Very Frustrating.
Rating: 3 / 5
Posted on September 4th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
I also had the earlier product which was very easy to use.
This new addition has the ability to tell me whether I’m using enough fertilizer which has always been a mystery to me. We have some expensive plants and some demanding citrus trees.
I’ve always heard the devices to provide that kind info cost thousands of dollars. I’m amazed these folks figured it out (and the web site has gotten really good)
Already found out we are not giving our Dark Japanese Maple enough love. Off to Home Depot this morning to buy some fertilizer.
I’ll be analyzing my backyard for the next few weeks ;-)
MB
Rating: 5 / 5
Posted on September 4th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
I’ve used both the plus and original easybloom and found them both to be intuitive and helpful. Using an EasyBloom is easy for even the most non-technical user. With the new “fertilizer” feature, the EasyBloom plus is a great tool to save money and will help prevent over fertilizing your plant. I use it around the house and outdoors without any issues. I’ve discovered new plant ideas based on the readings and will be experimenting this spring.
I give it a green thumbs up!
Rating: 5 / 5
Posted on September 5th, 2010 at 1:36 am
My husband and sons gave this to me (gardener & plant lover) for Mothers Day. It is fairly easy to use. I have had a few occasions when I’ve had to reboot my computer to recognize the sensor plugged into the USB…which may seem like a computer problem (not EasyBloom) but my computer is brand-new so I doubt thats the case.
The EasyBloom software is informative and easy to use. I wish, however, that you could zoom in on the lighting or moisture graph…or pick a range and get more detailed info but it doesn’t.
So far so good with this product. I like that I can put it in the soil anywhere and leave it to monitor, for as long as you wish (no big deal if you forget and leave it there for a week or more…it just tracks the entire time).
I need to play with the fertilizer option next.
Rating: 4 / 5
Posted on September 5th, 2010 at 2:09 am