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You plant it. We plan it.

A field guide for windowsills

Every plant keeps its own calendar.

We read the leaf, the vessel, and the weather over your street (five photographs, the clay it lives in, the week ahead) and say the only thing that matters: check the soil Thursday, and pour about a cup if it's dry.

Begin with a photograph

What it reads off this plant

  • Monstera deliciosa
  • New leaf, unfurling
  • Indoors, partial sun
  • Medium vessel
  • Soil, balanced

The week over your street

Air now

24°C

Humidity

58%

Week ahead

26°C

What it says to do

In 7 days

~241ml≈1 cup, until it drains

Illustrative, yours is worked out from your own coordinates

What it reads

Three things we read before we say a date.

Four frames, one verdict

A leaf up close, the whole plant, the texture of a stem. Four frames read against each other until the name is certain enough to act on. The fifth photograph is the pot, and it is for your record, not the classifier's.

The pot has opinions

Pot size sets the pour, never the date, a small glass to three and a half cups. Terracotta breathes where plastic holds moisture close, and that is a real term in the interval, not a note: clay comes in about twelve percent shorter than plastic. It is also one of four things no photograph can tell us, along with the mix, whether the pot can drain, and how much of it the roots have taken.

The week over your street

The week crossing thirty degrees pulls a fourteen-day plant in to eleven. Outdoors, ten percent drier air can take another day off it; indoors the same air usually changes nothing, because a room halves the swing and we round to whole days rather than claim a precision the forecast hasn't got. The forecast at your own coordinates is read again every time you water.

Free, throughout

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Botanical frames per reading

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Sign-ups to begin

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Languages, each written natively

2

Of forecast, read for your street

7 days

Of pot, each setting its own pour

4 sizes

The problem

Plants don't live on schedules.

A seven-day reminder doesn't know the week turned hot, or that the air went dry, or that your Monstera stands in full sun on a balcony while the same species sits in a shaded room three floors up. It only knows it has been seven days.

A fixed reminder

  1. Every seven days
  2. Whatever the week is doing
  3. Wherever the plant stands
  4. Water anyway

Roots sit wet, or the soil ran dry three days ago.

Reading the conditions

  1. The species' own interval
  2. The week's temperature and humidity, at your coordinates
  3. Indoors, or outdoors in sun or shade
  4. The day you last watered

One date, worked out again every time you water.

Identification

Four frames. One name.

A plant is named from the shape of a leaf, the way a stem holds it, the habit of the whole thing. One hurried photograph gives a classifier one chance at all of that. Four give it four.

What to photograph

01A leaf, up close
02The whole plant
03Where leaf meets stem
04The underside of a leaf
05The pot it stands in

These are the angles worth having, not five slots you must fill. One photograph is enough to run a reading. The fifth plate is the pot: it carries no botanical signal, so it never goes to the classifier at all. It stays a record shot of what the plant stands in. The leaf plates are submitted labelled as leaves; the rest the classifier reads for itself.

The match

Monstera deliciosa

Swiss cheese plant

97%

Pl@ntNet's own score, unchanged unless two rows are the same plant

The top match is always kept. Alternates scoring under 5% are dropped, because the service pads its list out to three even when it has nothing plausible left to offer.

An illustrative reading · a real scan carries Pl@ntNet's real score

What happens to them
  1. 01The framesThe botanical frames go up together as one reading, rather than one at a time. The pot is held back.
  2. 02The classifierPl@ntNet (a botanical identification service, not a general-purpose chatbot) reads them and returns its three best species, each with its own score.
  3. 03The noise floorThe top match is always kept. Alternates scoring under 5% are dropped, because the service pads its list out to three even when it has nothing plausible left to offer.
  4. 04The tie-breakOnly when the reading is genuinely close (the top score under 60%, or less than 15 points clear of the runner-up) does a second model re-read two of the photographs.
  5. 05A closed setThat second model may only re-rank the shortlist it was handed. It cannot introduce a species that wasn't already on the list, which is the whole reason it's safe to consult.
  6. 06The answerYou get the name, the score behind it, and whichever alternates survived. Not one confident answer with the doubt quietly removed.

The care engine

Eleven things decide one date.

No model is trained here and nothing is guessed. The species sets a baseline, and eleven values move it. The week's temperature and the dryness of the air, where the plant stands and how much sun it takes there, the vessel and what's inside it, whether the pot can drain and how much plant is in it, the length of the day, the rain due, and whatever you found last time you put a finger in the soil. A short chain of arithmetic runs, and one date comes out. Which is why we can show you the whole of it.

Soil, balancedillustration, not the engine

Turn any of them

These are not sliders attached to a mock-up. The interval and the pour call the product's own arithmetic. The same functions the scheduler runs for a real plant on a real street. The soil reading beside them is this page's own shorthand, and says so.

Placement

Sun exposure

Indoors, the engine doesn't read exposure at all. A room halves the weather's pull instead, whichever way the window faces.

Eleven readings · one date

Species

7 days

Last watered

Today

Temperature

26°C

Humidity

58%

Placement

Indoors

Sun exposure

Exposure not read indoors

Next watering

In 7 days

Species interval: 7 days

~243ml≈1 cup, until it drains

The pour is the pot's

Water~243ml
The engine puts the next watering on day 7. Generic advice for this species would say day 7.

Your inputs · the product's own arithmetic

One plant, three weeks

The plant never changes. The week does.

Same species, same medium pot, same drawing. Only the air around it moves, and the day the engine lands on moves with it. Turn the week yourself, or keep scrolling and watch it turn.

Soil, balancedMonstera, indoors on a bright shelf

Plants don't live on schedules.

Week-ahead max

26°C

Humidity

58%

Placement

Indoors

Exposure

Partial sun

Days since it was last watered

Water~241ml
The engine puts the next watering on day 7. Generic advice for this species would say day 7.

The date it lands on

In 7 days

~241ml≈1 cup, until it drains

Twenty-six degrees in the week ahead, fifty-eight percent humidity: nothing here for the engine to argue with. The species' own interval stands, and the pour lands within a millilitre of the pot's own figure. This is the baseline. The two weeks beside it are the same plant, measured against this.

Illustrative conditions · figures computed by the app's care engine

The species

Same week. Same pot. Different plant.

Three worked examples, computed by the engine that runs in the product. Nothing below is written by hand. Change the weather and these numbers move.

Dracaena trifasciata

Snake plant, in the very same week, the very same balcony

Generic advice

Every 14 days

The Monstera, the very same week

Monstera deliciosa

In 3 days · ~324ml

What the engine reads

Species interval

14 days

Week-ahead max

39°C

Humidity

15%

Placement

Outdoors

Exposure

Direct sun

Pot

Medium

The date it lands on

In 6 days · ~324ml

Identical weather, identical pot, identical sun. The difference is entirely the plant: a snake plant stores water in its leaves and starts from fourteen days, so the same heat that puts the Monstera on three days puts this one on six. This is why weather-aware cannot mean water more.

Illustrative conditions · figures computed by the app's care engine

The garden

One garden. 6 different answers.

Seven plants in one room, under one week of weather, each last watered on its own day. Nothing varies but the species. And it spreads them across 6 different days. Two of them happen to land together, which is the honest shape of it rather than a tidier one.

Air now

24°C

Humidity

58%

Week ahead

31°C

An illustrative garden · every interval computed by the app's care engine

The struck-through figure is the interval each species would get on its own. At 31°C the engine pulls 4 of the seven in: the ponytail palm from eighteen days to sixteen, the snake plant from fourteen to thirteen, and the two mid-cycle plants by a day each. The shortest cycles hold, because indoors only half the swing is applied and a three-day interval has little room to give.

Seven plants in one room, coming due across 6 different days: Maidenhair fern: Water today; Calathea: In 2 days; Monstera: In 4 days; Golden pothos: In 7 days; Dragon tree: In 7 days; Snake plant: In 8 days; Ponytail palm: In 14 days.

Diagnosis

Something looks wrong.

Photograph the leaf that worries you and the reading turns to health instead of naming: what is visible, what commonly causes it, and what to try. With its own uncertainty left on the page where you can see it.

A reading, not a verdict

  • Dry, brown, stops at the rim
  • Centre still firm
The leaf that started the worry · illustrative

Diagnostic reading · illustrative

Monstera deliciosa

The plant is holding, but its oldest leaves are reporting on where it stands rather than on anything it has caught.

What it found, up to three, ranked

Browning leaf margins

Possible · on what the photograph supports

EnvironmentModerate

Dry brown edges on the older leaves, the centres still firm, and nothing spreading inward from the rim: the pattern dry air leaves behind, rather than a fungus.

What to try

  1. 01Move it out of the moving air from a vent or a doorway.
  2. 02Raise the humidity around it gradually, a tray of water nearby beats misting the leaves.
  3. 03Leave the scorched edges alone and watch the next leaf instead. New growth is the honest signal.

What to watch next

The next leaf to open. If its margins come in clean, the air was the problem and the reading held; if they brown the same way, it wasn't, and the plant is telling you to look elsewhere.

The limits of a photograph

Three readings meet here: a disease classifier trained on a closed set of coded diseases, a vision model that can describe what it sees but cannot be calibrated, and your own watering log. None of them has a soil sample, a sensor or a laboratory. That is why each cause carries a band rather than a percentage, and why the vision model's unaided opinion can never read stronger than "possible". Take it as a second opinion that points you somewhere. Not a verdict, and never a substitute for looking at the plant yourself.

An illustrative reading · run a real one on the Diagnose page

Every finding lands in one of seven categories
  • Disease
  • Pest
  • Watering
  • Nutrient
  • Light
  • Environment
  • Other
Diagnose a plant

The models, named

Where the AI is, and where it deliberately isn't.

Three parts of this app use a model, and it is worth being exact about which, because the fourth is the one that decides when to water and it uses none.

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Naming the plant. Pl@ntNet's classifier does the work. A model trained on millions of labelled botanical photographs, not a chatbot guessing. When its top match is weak or too close to the runner-up, a vision model re-reads two of your photographs as a second opinion. It can only reorder Pl@ntNet's own candidates; it cannot invent a species, and when it promotes one the app says so.
02
Reading a sick leaf. Pl@ntNet's disease classifier ranks the causes against a closed set of coded diseases. A vision model describes what is actually visible and writes the steps, because that is the thing a classifier can't do. Your own watering log can overrule either of them. A cause the vision model reached alone never reads stronger than "possible".
03
Answering a question about your plant. A language model, handed that plant's species, its interval, its pot, where it stands and the weather over it. So the answer is about your plant and not about plants in general. Ask it anything; it will decline to wander off the subject.
04
Not the watering date. That is arithmetic: eleven bounded multipliers, no model trained, nothing guessed. And the whole chain shown to you on the plant's own page. A language model that is confident and wrong about a watering interval will kill a plant slowly, and there is no reason to hand it that job when a species baseline and a forecast will do it and can be checked.

Every model here is named, and so is its limit. Nothing on this page is a model's opinion presented as a measurement.

A day in the garden

The week moves. The reading moves with it.

You mark a plant watered, and the engine sets the next date from the week it finds. After that the forecast keeps changing, and the projection is redrawn against it every time you open the plant. The stored date waits for you to act on it.

Their care should too.

The garden's journal · illustrative

  1. Weather

    The week ahead came in warmer: 39°C, 15% humidity

  2. Monstera

    Projected three days, not seven, shown next time you open it

  3. Snake plant

    Projected six days, not fourteen, shown next time you open it

  4. You

    Watered the Monstera

  5. Monstera

    Next care set, Thursday, about 1½ cups

  6. The garden

    5 of 7 plants on schedule tonight

An illustration of the order, not a recording. Nothing here runs on its own: the projection is recomputed when you look, and the date is rewritten when you water.

The control center

Your whole garden, on one screen.

Everything the engine worked out, gathered in one place: what needs water now, what can wait, what the air is doing, and how much of the collection is on schedule.

PLAN'T, garden

Plants

7

On track

5

Due soon

1

Due now

1

Air

24°C

Humidity

58%

The collection

  • Maidenhair fernAdiantumEvery 3 daysWater today
  • CalatheaCalathea orbifoliaEvery 5 daysIn 2 days
  • MonsteraMonstera deliciosaEvery 7 daysIn 4 days
  • Golden pothosEpipremnum aureumEvery 8 daysIn 7 days
  • Dragon treeDracaena marginataEvery 9 daysIn 7 days
  • Snake plantDracaena trifasciataEvery 13 daysIn 8 days
  • Ponytail palmBeaucarnea recurvataEvery 16 daysIn 14 days

71% of the garden is on schedule

An illustrative garden · the figures are the product's own arithmetic
Start your garden

Keeping a garden

One account, kept light

Everything above works without signing up. An account adds reminders that reach you, and a garden that follows you between devices.

01
Watering reminders that actually reach you
02
Your garden follows you across devices
03
A garden that survives a cleared browser or a lost phone
Keep a garden

Your plants change.Their week changes.Their care should too.

Begin

Your plants already know the schedule.

Photograph your first plant in under a minute.

Begin with a photograph