Brand: YAMRON

Rating: ★ 4

Category: Patio, Lawn & Garden > Gardening & Lawn Care > Plant & Soil Monitoring > Soil Meters

ASIN: B0DF4TB93J

Reviewer: Gene P. Louie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Best Among the Bunch.
Review: This is the only digital soil meter on the market. All others utilize a magnetically operated needle, that swings in front of 3-to-5 scales. As a result, the user gets rough estimates instead of actual numbers..It is also one of the few that requires battery power to operate. An electric charge is emitted into the soil and is received in the probe. A circuit board measures the tiny changes and reports the results in digital form. Many competing devices use no batteries. I wonder how their diagnoses work without electricity?.I took the meter to task on the first day. The initially readings were off. AMBIEN LIGHT measured 0, although the meter was under a grow lamp. SOIL MOISTURE measured 95% – very wet, although the dirt was only moist..After a “break in period” of one day, I tested again on the second. The features proved accurate. On the TEMPERATURE feature, I measured room air. The temperature was 1F higher than my oven thermometer and room thermostat. . . . Excellent!.To test the PH feature. I wet a face towel with water. It achieved a 7.1 reading – neutral. Water was neutral. . . . . Then, I wet a spot on the fabric with vinegar. The reading was 6.0 – slightly acid. Although vinegar was 4% acetic acid in distilled water, I expected a strongly acid reading. So, the PH feature was off by a half notch..The MOISTURE feature worked to perfection. It measured the potted soil at 20% – dry. Examining the dirt, the moisture held the dirt in clumps, but it was relatively dry..The AMBIEN LIGHT feature was good. Three grow lamps shined on my 10 juniper seedlings in pots. Each light source had a 100 watt grow bulb, with a 1700 lux rating. Putting the meter under one, it measured 2640 lux. With the added indirect light from the two other lamps, the reading seemed correct..In the past month, I purchased three other competing soil meters and returned all. They tested grossly inaccurate, or some of their features were inoperative..On this product, the features worked to perfection, except for PH – half correct. A second problem was missing the ability to measure FERTILITY. A third problem was the small text on the screen for TEMPERATURE and MOISTURE readings. They were very small. Other than these three shortcomings, I ranked it the best among the many soil meters available on Amazon…————————————————————————————————————————-..UPDATE: After two months of usage, the unit became non-functional. First, it no longer showed moisture. Second, one-fourth of the LCD screen went blank..I contacted the vendor for warranty repairs/replacement. Within an hour, it responded with a request for a video of the unit in action. In compliance, the unit was turned ON. The regular screen appeared, indicating NO PROBLEMS..
Reviewer: Phillip from SLC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A must-have for growing plants in containers!
Review: I purchased this Soil Tester to monitor the health of my plants which are all in containers. This meter is excellent in quality with highly useful features and I can’t say enough good things about it! Instead of using the finger method of determining if the soil is wet enough, this meter gives me an accurate measurement so there’s no over watering. The temperature of the soil in the containers is of considerable importance as well. Well worth the money!!
Reviewer: Jennifer Davis
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great product
Review: Purchased to ensure the PH of our garden was just so. Worked well, easy to use and read.
Reviewer: KingMDM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Accurate PH Test
Review: This is a ‘pretty accurate’ soil pH tester. I read reviews claiming inaccurate pH readings, but this is probably due to user error, unless the unit is defective, which can happen. I was originally getting very low acidity scores in the 3s, but figured out why. The number 1 cause was testing with the lawn soil extremely wet after watering the lawn. Front lawn readings were in the 3s, which was watered. My backyard and several neighbors’ dry lawns had more acceptable readings, ranging from 5.3 to 7.5, which is nearer the target zone for lawns. Next, I verified accuracy by testing tap water, vinegar, and ammonia, and each provided expected pH scores. Tap water read 6.9-7.1 (which I was happy to see for obvious reasons), vinegar 2ish, and ammonia tested 11ish, which verifies this device is mostly accurate. While this may not be 100% pinpoint precise, it’s definitely good enough to get you moving in the right direction and will assist in reaching the target range for a lawn, which is 6ish – 7ish. To be fair, I can only comment regarding pH testing, since that’s the reason I purchased it.
Reviewer: MC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Information is displayed quickly, very helpful with finicky plants
Review: Why did you pick this product vs others?:I chose this one over others because it has a tilting head, I have some taller plants that are full and seeing inside the leaves was hard-this made it easy. It is fast to give the information and covers everything I needed, soil moisture, ph levels (important for finicky plants), sunlight intensity and soil temperature. I don’t pay attention to the soil temperature so that doesn’t matter to me. It is fast when you switch it from plant to plant. The instructions do not tell you how to adjust the PH value, so I just use it as it is but that may be important for some plants. I love that I am able to retain the correct moisture and PH level, my plants are so much happier! This is really helpful for plant happiness!Durability:It seems to be well-made, it is a good size for all of the plants, unfortunately it cannot put it in water, I start my clippings in water-that would be useful in testing the PH levels.
Reviewer: 竹口幸蔵
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 説明書が英語で困ったと書いてありましたが　難なく使えました
Reviewer: Sam T
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 5 ⭐ works perfectly
Reviewer: Jacob D
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I’ve searched long before about this kind of machine which can tell about the plants. This product comes across to me when I search for the grow light. Even 5 kinds of information tell. why not. With over 50 plants, it’s hard to track all plant conditions.Yes, it’s a Chinese product and not that cheap but it came with quite a detailed manual and explanation of each function. it needs 4 AAA batteries which makes it heavy on the top head part.Recently I got several grow lights and this lux meter is quite useful even though we can use cell phones.The first priority is soil moisture 2 lux, 3 PH, 4 temps, 5 fertility for me know.1. soil moisture. I am not sure about the correctness, but I can satisfy the speed to check and show the percentage of moist and easy condition levels ( dry_,dry+, nor, wet_,wet+) like.2. light meter, is also quite detailed about the lux and easy levels(Low_Low+NorHihg_high).. I recently bought several grow lights and this shows most grow lights need closer to the plant which can effective only 1 or 2 plants.Also, additional info for me about the temp, pH, and nutrient level can easily and quickly be checked. and C/F big button is also good.Con? or need to improve?- 1. heavy on top. so it is not easy to check small plant pots.2. readable .. temps and ph are in the middle with big letters so it easily shows information but it took up space to show other information, i prefer to see moisture and lux but it is a small letter but readable. I hope the size may same or can change will be better.3. light on/off button? it is also a readable option, I hope it will be good for the light-on mode so I can check without pressing other buttons again.Overall, I am so happy about my purchase of this soil meter.
Reviewer: Jake hutchins
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: So far good , wondering for how long it will stay good ph metres notoriously go off so will be interesting to see how long it reads ph remotely accurately!
Reviewer: Raj
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Does the job. If you want better tracking of soil moisture, can’t go wrong with this.

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