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title: "Friendly Advice: you don’t need a water meter for your plants. Save…"
description: "Friendly Advice: you don’t need a water meter for your plants. Save some money and use your FINGERS. They are your water meters. Stick your finger in the soil…"
url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/15UAWPKQZ6YmGLiKn5oHZ9"
community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Green bean"
published: "2026-06-22T12:49:10.947551Z"
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# Friendly Advice: you don’t need a water meter for your plants. Save…

_Posted by Green bean on 2026-06-22_

Friendly Advice: you don’t need a water meter for your plants. Save some money and use your FINGERS. They are your water meters. Stick your finger in the soil and see how dry or moist the soil is. Easy and free. 🌱

## 9 comments

### Nikiller commented on 2026-06-22

The only water meter I’ve ever found to be worth using is a piece of glass with a string in it that wicks water from the soil into the top to show hydration, even then, it came free with an airplant (don’t know why, airplants don’t use soil) and I still double check it with my fingers.

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#### Green bean replied on 2026-06-22

Love a free useful gift. I think out of all the different water meters, I like the glass and string best

#### Random Strands replied on 2026-06-22

I’ve never heard of this I will have to go look it up. 😊

#### Nikiller replied on 2026-06-22

I’ve seen them for sale on their own at Lowe’s as well, they’re pretty cheap

### Random Strands commented on 2026-06-22

My finger doesn’t work lol - I use the chopstick method.

#### JR replied on 2026-06-22

I use chopsticks

#### Green bean replied on 2026-06-22

Lol that's a great method too!  
And a multi use tool! I use chopsticks to help stable my plants in their terrarium 😆

#### antx replied on 2026-06-22

Similar here, toothpicks never let me down!

#### JR replied on 2026-06-22

I ended up getting metal chopsticks. Work the same, but reusable forever. So they have been worth the small investment

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