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Product Description

Monitor your plants' health directly from your smartphone. Parrot Flower Power is a sensor to be "planted" close to a plant, indoor or outdoor, in a pot or in open ground. It precisely measures, in real time, the parameters that are crucial for the growth and good health of plants: soil moisture, fertilizer, ambient temperature and light intensity.

Product information

Product Dimensions

3.58 x 11.02 x 3.5 inches

Item Weight

5.6 ounces

ASIN

B00FOM2Y6W

Item model number

PF900001

Batteries

1 AAA batteries required. (included)

Customer Reviews

464 ratings

3.2 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#514,461 in Patio, Lawn & Garden (See Top 100 in Patio, Lawn & Garden)
#6,966 in Garden Fertilizers

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

No

Other display features

CE

Form Factor

Wearable Accessory

Colour

Green

Included Components

Flower Power Wireless Plant Sensor (green)

Department

Unisex-adult

Manufacturer

Parrot Inc.

Date First Available

October 21, 2013

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Flower Power Wireless Plant Sensor (green)

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waetherman

Like a fitbit for your garden

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 26, 2014

Verified Purchase

Like a fitbit for your garden, the Parrot Flower Power gives you basic information about the health of your plants. The data that's collected is sunlight, water, fertilizer and temperature, and it records the data continuously. To check in on the plant though, you have to sync the device via bluetooth with your phone, and when the data is synced it is also uploaded to the Parrot (?) servers for analysis, and then notifications are sent. This is overall a pretty good system if you like to check in on your garden on a daily basis, but there are some limitations. Since the device isn't connected to the Internet directly, it can't be checked remotely, and it can't be used with services like IFTTT to trigger other actions or alerts. Having something that is directly connected to the Internet would make for a lot more flexibility with the system, but would probably be more expensive and complicated.

As for the data it collects, it's nice to generally know the state of your garden. And because it is set to monitor a particular kind of plant, it is monitoring the health of that plant and doing the analysis for you. I found this very useful to know when I was overwatering or underwating, or when I needed to add fertilizer. One limitation though is that it doesn't seem to corrolate data with things like weather patterns - if it's cloudy one day, it'll tell you to move the plant, instead of realizing that it's just a cloudy day. Also those kinds of alerts seem to be specific to that day, not the overall trend - my tomatoes, for instance, are exposed to all-day sun, but on one cloudy day I got a notice when it should have just realized that the plant is in a good position.

Overall I'd say this is very useful, but could be more useful with a few improvements. I'll definitely be buying one or two more to monitor other plants in the garden.

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K A Fitzgerald

Outstanding Concept, Solid Construction, Poor Software, Mediocre Implementation

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 18, 2013

Verified Purchase

***Long story short, in it's current rendition, this device is a mostly useless piece of tech gadgetry.***

Gardening is my passion! I have grown indoors and out, for years (56 houseplants, 3 acres of gardens and lawns). I live in the mountains in Colorado and making sure my plants have enough sunlight can be quite a task! When I first saw this device, I was VERY excited! Finally, a device that automatically checks most of the soil/growth parameters that a significant number of amateur horticulturists might struggle with. Perhaps the anticipation got the best of me.

Pros:
-iOS Connectivity!!!
-Measures Temperature, Soil Moisture, Fertilizer Level, and Sunlight Amount/Intensity.
-Reminders and notifications when any of these are out of bounds.
-Vast majority of plants that people will come across are in their database.
-Tailors recommendations and parameters to the species being grown.
-Nerd Factor! haha

Cons:
-Who the heck designed the User interface??? Options Include:
-5 year-old
-Flower Child circa 1965
-Everything takes FOREVER (>24 hours) to update!
-Once it FINALLY updates, the suggestions are vague general statements.
-Not enough sun (Well how much more does it need???)
-Add more fertilizer (Again, how much?)
-Perhaps add some kind of status bar to indicate where the plant is, and what the deficiency is.
-No WiFi to push info through to the cloud (Netatmo, Philips hue, or Nest)
-Everything must go through Bluetooth on a phone.
-Phone must be in range
-No application for a home computer (!!!)

With significant improvements to the user interface (read: Grown-up Mode), Better Connectivity (Bluetooth Connectivity to say a Mac desktop perhaps), and more useful recommendations, and more quantitative measurements would go a long way.

I am not sure how much longer I will keep this product. Perhaps Parrot will improve the Flower Power here soon? One can hope.

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My plants are healthier

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2014

Verified Purchase

I bought 10 of these for my indoor and outdoor potted plants. My plants are already healthier. The database is excellent, I have some rare tropical plants and they were in the database. It reminds me daily when I need to water, fertilize, etc. I also discovered one corner of my house was too dark for the particular plant species so I swapped it with another that needs a little less light.

I was disappointed in 2 areas

1-there is no android app. I have a Samsung galaxy phone so I cant use it. I have to use our ipad

2-after about a week the software stops synching with the devices. I wrote to customer support and they told me to reboot (power off and on) my ipad. That worked. But I have to do it every week or so. I had the same problem on all of the devices in our household: 2 ipads, 1 iphone, and all 4 of the sensors stop synching, so I don't think this is just me. However the reboot works every time so I can manage

UPDATE: May 1
They updated the app 2 days ago and I lost all my graph data. In addition, now I cannot upload data. I see from the app store reviews I am not alone. I am really disappointed as this product seems to be deteriorating not improving. What a hassle

UPDATE: May 9
After a week, tech support got back to me. They did not even read my email, they spotted the word "iPad" and replied with one sentence: "the app is not available for iPad". Of course that is not my question, I am using the iPhone app on my iPad, my issue is after the latest app upgrade I am having trouble synching with my 10 Flower Power devices and lost all my historical data

Conclusion .. nice idea .. useful when it works .. but very unreliable and quite a hassle to keep it working consistently .. tech support very poor .. I don't have a lot of time/patience so I am going to sell mine

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Jase

Fantastic but very expensive!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 25, 2015

Verified Purchase

Purchased this product as they had come down in price substantially since the launch date. This device is a small sensor that you can either use indoors or outdoors. It looks nice and blends into the plant excellently, very unobtrusive. It comes with a AAA battery which apparently gives 8 months of use. Firstly you have to put the sensor into the soil near the plant you wish to monitor. Then you download the free app from the relevent app store and sync it with your sensor - very easy to do. Next you have to select what plant it is you wish the sensor to monitor. This is where it gets a little difficult.... if you have thrown away the labels from your plants and have no idea what they are called then you will have problems! However if you log onto the parot flower power web site you can search for plants much easier than you can do in the app, by selecting filters according to the shape and colour of your plant etc. It took me about an hour to find the plant i wished to monitor - only problem then is that there are littrally hundreds of sub-breeds of the plant you have selected! I just went for the plant that looked the most similar to mine. Once you have told the app what plant you wish to monitor it then advises you to check back in 24hrs to see its anaylasis. However within 15mins the sensor was already reporting on the sunlight, water moisture and temprature of the soil - this was good. The following day i logged back onto the app to see the 24hr anaylasis and it advised me that my plant needed more sun as it was not receiving enough light and therefore would remain dormant and fail to flower (this is what had been happening) i moved the house plant into the garden and checked the sensor a few hours later - the 'petrol gage type graph' had gone from too shady to perfect sunshine - thus proving the sensor records the data accurately. I was very impressed. The app apprently will notify you when you need to add more fertiliser to the soil or water your plant - so making it very easy for those non green fingered people amongst us to grow some difficult plant. I loved this product so much that i have just ordered another one! My only negative thoughts on this product is that you need a sensor per plant if you have potted plants - it can read multiple plants planted in the same pot or if outside, but for indoor plants you will need multiple sensors, and at around £40 per sensor that is expensive! I wish there would be a discount for additional sensors as £40 is way too much to have one in every pot in my house. If they were half the price i would buy several more!!!

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D. Dass

Helped me keep my chilli plant alive successfully, just very expensive for what it is

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 2, 2016

Verified Purchase

Bought to help me keep my plants alive, as I have a tendency to over water or under water my plants.

Likes
Nice app (free to download) which has recently been updated
Once set up does its own thing
Variety of colours
Ease of use with simple notifications onto your phone with reminders

Dislikes
Very expensive (I feel £20 would be more reasonable, especially if you more than one plant)
Doesn't automatically update with plant status, you need to remember to log into the app for it to check your plant, sync it and then tell you what you need to do
Want to use the monitor on different plants, can't quite work out if this is possible

Overall it has done a good job and helped me keep my chilli plant alive successfully, just very expensive for what it is.

Pat

Get your plant to talk to you

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 4, 2016

Verified Purchase

This is monitoring a pomegranate tree. It almost immediately warned me about the lighting position and fertiliser. Its an excellent device - my plant seems much happier.

I have two of these on different plants and it really does measure the environment according to plant type.

MadaboutRadley

Fun monitor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 27, 2014

Verified Purchase

Geeky fascination in the info it sends to your phone, would be better if it didn't take a whole day to update ie if it took less time to analyse the light, soil moisture, fertiliser status & temperature every time you move the probe to a different plant

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Mr McKenna

But these monitors are quite good. Although I am still waiting for my orange ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 1, 2015

Verified Purchase

Well, I have managed to kill my Orange Tree with to much fertiliser.

But these monitors are quite good. Although I am still waiting for my orange tree to be added to the database.

They are worth the money, especially for noobs like me...
If you are serious about your plants, you need one of these.
Trust me, they tell you how your plant feels.

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