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Many people have indoor plants in their homes, often of a variety of species. Each plant species requires specific climatic conditions for luxuriant growth. Such requirements include the correct amount of light, water, heat, air and nutrients. All these factors are important in the plants\biological

Many people have indoor plants in their homes, often of a variety of species. Each plant species requires specific climatic conditions for luxuriant growth. Such requirements include the correct amount of light, water, heat, air and nutrients. All these factors are important in the plants\biological processes of photosynthesis, respiration and transpiration. Currently most people simply guess when a plant needs watering and fertilization. Some commercial products are available on the market to measure soil humidity, air temperature and light. These devices do not provide an integrated electronic plant husbandry system as proposed by this invention. The invention aims at electronically monitoring the indoor plants\environment and via a preprogrammed, plant husbandry program, which contains the required values for proper specific plant species growth, will inform the user of the next required watering for each different plant, the amount of required water and whether or not the current plant\s dosage of light and heat is correct for optimum growth. It will also notify the user when fertilizer should be added.

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A method of providing growth care for a wide variety of plants comprising the steps of; (a) providing a computing device having time keeping circuitry, programmable circuitry, program accessible memory, output display means, and data entry input means, (b) storing optimum plant growth parameters for

A method of providing growth care for a wide variety of plants comprising the steps of; (a) providing a computing device having time keeping circuitry, programmable circuitry, program accessible memory, output display means, and data entry input means, (b) storing optimum plant growth parameters for each of said varieties of plants in said program accessible memory, (c) providing said programmable circuitry with a program capable of (i) taking input data regarding a specific one of said varieties, (ii) comparing this data with the said stored parameters and (iii) producing an output responsive to said comparison, said method further including the steps of, (d) providing an input device capable of measuring important plant growth parameters of each said varieties and inputting said measurements to said computing device, (e) placing said input device in a location proximate to one of said plant varieties for a period of time sufficient for said device to measure the growing conditions of said plant variety, and (f) inputting the information from said input device to said computing device to produce said output responsive to said comparison.