Get a Digital Green Thumb

Plant heaven is backed with plants who have died due to their owner’s good intentions. They truly intended to water their plants daily and rotate them so that they would ever face the sun. In reality, your active water plans succeeded for about a week before your plants began to suffer from your memory lapses. Drypoint Technologies latest product, Thirsty Light, has been designed with the “plant-care challenged” in mind.

Thirsty Light is a digital moisture sensor. Depending on the frequency of its LED blinks, you will know how dry your plant is. Thirsty Light checks the soil moisture level once every second. Drypoint Technologies designed to the Thirsty Light so that it would be inconspicious when at work measuring your soil’s moisture content. It looks like a toothpick with a small green globe on top of it. You place the toothpick-like probe section of the Thirsty Light into the soil. Drypoint Technologies thoughtfully made the probe corrosion resistant. They also designed the probe to measure the soil’s electrical resistance. As the soil becomes drier, the green globe will begin blinking.

Drypoint Technologies’ Thirsty Light has five warning levels - 1). No blink. Plant does not need water. 2). Slow blink. The soil is getting dry. Lightly water. 3). Medium blink. Soil is dry, water moderately. 4). Rapid blink. Soil is parched, water thoroughly. 5). Double blink with a pause. Soil in critical state. Water immediately and thoroughly.

The Thirsty Light’s battery can last up to a year depending on how attentive you are to its warnings. Drypoint Technologies did design a blink pattern for the Thirsty Light to alert you when the battery is running low. It would have been nice if Drypoint had included some type of audio alert as well. There will be some times when the blinking Thirsty Light could be overlooked.
Drypoint Technologies is an excellent product. It focuses one job: telling you when your plants need watering and it does that job effectively. The next time you give anyone a potted plant, spend an extra $10 and get the Thirsty Light. Plants everywhere will thank you for your kindness to potted kind.

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