Hi Heather, I must say, this is a really interesting question. We have not seen or heard any other reports of glowing soil in conjunction with EasyBloom. The LED does light up for a second or so when you press the stop button. Do you think you may have seen light from the LED illuminating the ground? Keep us posted! Matt

Hi Sandra, Great question! There is no need to deploy the sensor for more than 24 hours in Recommend mode. We have developed patent-pending algorithms that normalize any reading that is less than three weeks to the previous three weeks weather data. So if you leave the sensor out on a cloudy day, but the previous 20 days were sunny, EasyBloom tweaks the light reading up to what it would have been if you left the sensor out a full three weeks. We spent quite a bit of time figuring this out, so you don't have to wait three weeks for recommendations. Cheers! Matt

Hi Roberta! Matt the Agricultural Engineer here. Since soil is easier to amend than sunlight or temperature, the recommendations do not take soil type into account. If you want to refine your recommendations by soil type, use the "Soil Type" refinement in All Recommendations. Let us know if that does the job for you or not. We are constantly improving our features based on feedback from users like you!

Hi Andrew, The current device measures sunlight, air temperature, air moisture and soil moisture. The graphs under "Plant's View" show the raw data from the sensor with appropriate axis labels. Under the graphs you can see the interpreted results (Full sun, Dry soil, Moderate temperature, etc.). We don't publish the raw numbers because they are not meaningful without our site code, which uses instantaneous solar position, local historical climate and current weather to calculate the interpreted results (which are very meaningful). Hope this helps, and thanks for posting! Matt

Hi Steve, Good question! This is one we have spent a lot of time answering for ourselves, so I will be happy to explain our soil moisture technology. Most of the soil moisture meters on the consumer market use a simple technology that applies a voltage to two conductive leads in the soil. The current that flows through the soil is proportional to the amount of water the soil holds. We rejected this technology because it is highly affected by saline soils, and the conductive leads can get dirty and lose their calibration very easily. EasyBloom licenses a special technology for measuring soil moisture from Decagon Devices Inc. It measures the "capacitance" of the soil, which is the ability of the soil to store a non-conductive electrical charge. This technology does not require bare leads exposed to the soil and is not as susceptible to the effects of saline soils. Percent soil moisture refers to the volumetric percentage of water in the soil at any given time. While soil keeps a constant volume, every soil has pore space that makes up to 35% of the volume of the soil. EasyBloom measures the amount of water held in the pore space as a percentage of the volume of the soil. This is the same technology used to sense soil moisture on the Mars Phoenix Lander! Thank you for your interest. Matt Senior Agricultural Engineer