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hi I'm Andrew gay part4 cnet I'm here with my good friends planting today I'm going to teach you how to take care of planty with a smart gardening system for free that's right I can be told via email when planting needs water or fertilizer or misting and get sunlight recommendations and temperature recommendations for zero dollars the way to do that is with kabocha cheese app a couple of weeks ago I reviewed their Wi-Fi sensor and said it didn't feel worth it because the app can do just about everything the sensor can do with just a little bit more setup on your part today I'm walking you through that setup so to start the process you're going to need to pull up the kabocha application you're going to start by identifying what type of plant you're dealing with and then you're ready to begin the process the first thing you're going to want to do here is go to the info screen on the info screen check sunlight and temperature preferences carefully for your specific plant now I go back to the kabocha homepage pull up this screen and you can see misting in fertilizer recommendations just based on your plant preferences and there within a couple of minutes you have misting fertilizer sunlight and temperature ready to go the only thing that's missing watering recommendations here's how we do that you're going to start by calibrating to calibrate you're going to fully water the plant tell the system you've ordered the plan then check back daily because you want to update the system once the soil has dried out after a day passes time to check on plenty again we can do that with the pencil test place the pencil about an inch into the dirt and planting soil is not dry yet I'm going to tell the system that and then I'll need to check on it tomorrow so let me show you exactly how this pencil test works and how you can use it to tell when the soil is dry so we're going to try the moisture test on these three pots dry medium drenched and we'll see how it works dry and you can see all the dirt falls right off medium and you have clumps sticking to it when I put it into the drenched one you can see the pencils wet it's got even little pieces of mud sticking to it so there you go a quick to second test to let you know how much moisture your plant has and they give you an indicator of when you need to water again once the soil around planting looks like that driest soil did and it's just falling off the pencil I'm going to tell the app that the soil is dry the app is going to remember the time frame that it took for your plant to dry out and it will set a watering schedule for you and send you handy-dandy email reminders when it's time to water next you now know how to get kabocha zap to set a schedule for you for moisture misting and fertilizer as well as providing you sunlight and temperature recommendations for free prasina I'm Andrew Gifford