--- title: "Is it just me or does this app tell you to water plants too often?" description: "Is it just me or does this app tell you to water plants too often?" url: "https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg/EVkLXduoQtGpVWDmqIwXgA" community: "Anything about plants" author: "Mercedes" published: "2024-05-31T20:11:10.883151Z" language: "en" image: "https://images.getplanta.com/v2/cloudinary/global_data/communities/everythingHousePlants.jpg" --- [Community](https://getplanta.com/community.md) / [Anything about plants](https://getplanta.com/community/lZ7uAE3pQ86jnFGxrCwLrg.md) # Is it just me or does this app tell you to water plants too often? _Posted by Mercedes on 2024-05-31_ Is it just me or does this app tell you to water plants too often? ## 10 comments ### Plant mom commented on 2024-05-31 Yesss I have to water my two pathos every Saturday but they tell me like every day #### Mercedes replied on 2024-05-31 I keep pressing snooze for everything! #### Plant mom replied on 2024-05-31 You can do that????? #### Mercedes replied on 2024-05-31 Yes on your daily to do list, instead of checking it off as completed, you look to the left and there is a snooze button. It then gives you the option to remind you in 2 days or skip until next time. #### Plant mom replied on 2024-05-31 Wow thanks ! ### Mullein commented on 2024-05-31 A lot of folks experience that with the app. It helps to add all the settings details for the site and each plant as accurately as you can. But ultimately it can’t be a perfect calculation. So that being said, I use it as a reminder to help keep track of plants. It might tell me to water, but if the soil is still moist I’ll snooze it to remind me another day. I know it’s kind of annoying when that happens, but personally it still helps me from completely forgetting some of my smaller plants and less demanding plants #### Mercedes replied on 2024-05-31 Yes I appreciate the reminder, I just feel like I would have killed all my plants if I went with the app advice. Just keep snoozing I guess #### Mullein replied on 2024-05-31 Yeah 😬 What type of plants in particular are you having bad recommendations for? ### Succulent❤️Mama commented on 2024-05-31 I think it errors on the side of too often. Maybe because you can click snooze if it’s not needed.🤷‍♀️ Not sure though. Personally I use it as a reminder to check my plants. If it’s close, I snooze for two days. If it’s no where near needing water, I skip until next time. If it’s really off on a particular plant, you can always add a custom schedule. I also try to group plants around my home by like needs (light and water) so that allows me to quickly check a group at once to make sure none need anything. Or I can water them all at once and mark a whole section as watered. Side note, sometimes when people are having this issue with a lot of plants, it’s because they forgot to fill out 100% of the information on Planta. Not saying that is what’s going on for you. But, that is a problem for a lot of people, so I would suggest when you’re having that problem that you double check that all the info on that plant is filled out and still correct. Yes, it does suggest watering more often than I actually need to water. I figured they’re never gonna be able to guess it exactly correct because there are so many micro climates. Outside and in our homes. Like I have some plants on a north facing window up high on a wall in a two-story room, so it gets full north light. And then I have other plants on a downstairs south facing window that’s partially blocked by one house. There’s not a good way to log those kind of differences. I have plants in a garage with a light on them and fans blowing on them when it’s raining too much outside, and I have no way of logging that kind of set up. Speaking of outside, I live in a drought prone area a couple of miles from a lake. So we get LOTS of rain for a month or two, then no rain for most of 6 MONTHS. The weather men can’t even predict our weather correctly on the same day, so I don’t think planta will be able too either.😅 I guess you just have to go with your gut sometimes, but I know that’s annoying when you’ve gotten an app because it would be nice if it could figure that stuff out for you hundred percent perfectly all the time. Maybe one day!❤️ #### Mercedes replied on 2024-05-31 Yes good advice, I have to look through and make sure I filled out all the info for all of my plants. I also didn’t consider the microclimates and it would be hard to take that all into account. Maybe I should consider making some custom schedules, haven’t looked into it yet 🪴💚 --- _Source: the Planta community (https://getplanta.com). Reading is open to everyone. To post, comment and like, get the Planta app: https://getplanta.com/download_