Name: Plotera
Author: Plotera

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Getting Started

🏡 Home Dashboard ▶

Your central hub. See garden summaries, active alerts, weather, and quick links to all features.

Tap the Gardens tab to see all your gardens and open one.

The Nursery tab shows your seedling trays at a glance.

Tap the ☰ menu (top left) to access every section of the app.

Open Weather from the main menu for a 7-day forecast, garden weather alerts, and planting or harvest suggestions based on the active garden.

Weather data is pulled from your saved weather location — update it from Settings whenever your garden location changes.

New users can follow the welcome wizard for location, units, tips, and a quick overview of gardens, nursery trays, plant guides, and reminders.

🌿 Creating Your First Garden ▶

Create a garden manually, or use the Auto Garden Builder when you want Plotera to suggest a starter layout.

Tap ＋ New Garden from the menu or the Home Dashboard.

Give your garden a name (e.g. "Back Yard Beds") and set the grid size — columns × rows.

Choose your climate zone so the planting calendar gives accurate advice.

Tap Use Auto Garden Builder Instead if you want recommended plants, paths, and zone sizing generated for you.

You can create multiple gardens — great for separating veggie beds, pots, and greenhouse.

✨ Auto Garden Builder ▶

The Auto Garden Builder creates a suggested garden layout from your size, climate profile, growing preference, soil type, and path choice.

Start it from the menu or from the Not sure what to plant? prompt during garden setup.

When you launch it from an existing garden, Plotera uses that garden’s saved weather/climate profile automatically unless you enter a different location.

Choose a preset size or enter dimensions in metres. Plotera converts that to a grid using roughly 30cm per cell.

If you launch it outside a garden, enter a postcode, city, or region so Plotera can estimate climate and seasonal planting windows.

The preview shows path cells, recommended plant zones, companion-aware choices, and expected harvest timing before you create the garden.

🌍 Soil Profiles & Soil Wizard ▶

Soil Profiles save reusable soil assessments that can be assigned to one or more gardens.

Open Soil Profiles from Garden Tools, then use the guided Soil Wizard to record texture, drainage, water retention, compaction, organic matter, earthworm activity, and optional pH.

Aquarium or water pH strips are supported as an estimated method only: remove mulch, sample soil from 10-15cm deep, mix with distilled or rainwater, settle, then test the clearer water.

Assign the same profile to multiple gardens from Soil Profiles or Garden Settings. Gardens store only the profile link, so editing the profile improves advice everywhere it is used.

Watering Advisor, Fertilising Advisor, and Auto Garden Builder now use the assigned profile to adjust advice for fast-draining soil, waterlogging risk, compaction, organic matter, and pH confidence.

👤 Account & Settings ▶

Manage your account, garden, notification, weather, units, appearance, and preference controls from Settings.

Set your location for accurate local weather and frost alerts.

Switch between Metric (cm/mm) and Imperial (feet/inches) at any time.

Toggle Dark Mode or enable/disable interactive tips in the Appearance section.

Use Restart Welcome Wizard if you want to replay the first-run setup and guided tips without deleting any garden data.

Garden Tools

🌿 Garden Grid ▶

A visual map of your garden. Each cell represents a zone — an area where you plant, water, and track things.

Drag the 2D garden to pan around larger beds. On mobile, pinch to zoom; on desktop, use the zoom buttons or modifier-wheel zoom.

Open Grid Toolbar to edit the physical grid. Use Single to tap individual cells, or Lasso to drag-select a group.

Pathing and edging tools live in the Grid Toolbar too: Path, Gravel, Wood Chips, Lawn, Paving, Raised Bed, Empty Bed, and Erase Brush.

After selecting cells or zones, use Assign Zone, Erase Selected, Duplicate Zone, or Undo from the Grid Toolbar.

Coloured zones with plants show what's growing and when it needs attention.

Use Garden Tools for broader actions like Zones, Water Plan, Feed Plan, Garden Settings, View Garden History, and Print Garden Layout.

🌾 3D Growth Simulator ▶

The 3D garden view can show a virtual growth stage for each planted zone based on your planting date and expected harvest time.

Open a garden, switch from 2D to 3D, then use the Growth Simulator toggle in the top-right of the 3D view.

Plotera estimates progress from Date planted and Days to harvest in each zone.

Stages move through Just sown, Seedling, Young plant, Growing, Flowering, Fruiting, Harvest ready, and Finished crop.

The models are low-poly previews grouped by plant type, so tall crops, climbers, roots, leafy greens, and sprawling crops appear differently.

📅 Planting Calendar ▶

A month-by-month guide showing what to sow, transplant, and harvest — tailored to your climate zone.

Browse months using the arrow buttons. The current month is highlighted automatically.

Tap any date to review planting, harvest, watering, fertiliser, reminders, and weather for that day. From there you can log watering or fertiliser, set a watering schedule, or add a timed reminder.

The date dots show garden activity: green = planting, yellow = harvest, blue = watering, amber = fertiliser, orange = reminders, and pale blue = frost.

Tap any plant name to jump straight to its full encyclopedia entry.

The calendar respects the climate zone set when you created the garden.

💧 Watering Schedule ▶

Track watering for the whole garden or individual zones and get notified when care is due.

Set a watering interval for the whole garden or a zone (e.g. every 2 days). Plotera tracks the last time you watered.

Overdue zones are flagged with a ! badge in the drawer menu.

Tap Log Watering on a zone to record it done and reset the timer.

Watering history is stored so you can see patterns over time.

💧 Watering Advisor ▶

The Watering Advisor gives plant-specific watering guidance based on the crop, soil or growing medium, current weather, and watering method.

Open it from the menu, Garden Tools, or a zone's quick panel using Water Tips.

Choose a planted zone or a common vegetable type, then answer soil, weather, and watering-method questions.

Results include frequency, watering depth, best time of day, key tips, and signs of over-watering or under-watering.

Use this for advice; use Watering Schedule when you want recurring due reminders and log history.

🌿 Fertiliser Tracker ▶

Log fertiliser applications and set when Plotera should remind you about the next feed.

Choose the product, date, notes, and a next-feed interval (for example, 14 days) when logging an application.

A yellow ! badge in the menu means the next recorded feed is due.

You can also open the Fertilising Advisor from a zone for plant-specific feeding guidance.

🌿 Fertilising Advisor ▶

The Fertilising Advisor builds a feeding plan from the plant, growth stage, growing setup, last feed date, and any nutrient symptoms.

Open it from the menu, Garden Tools, or directly from a zone. If opened from a planted zone, the plant can be pre-selected.

Choose the growth stage: seedling, vegetative, flowering, fruiting, or dormant/end of season.

Results include nutrient focus, recommended product, frequency, application method, cautions, and plant-family notes.

Suggested feed jobs can be added to your To Do list, and recent advice is saved in the advisor history.

🥕 Harvest Wizard ▶

The Harvest Wizard helps decide whether tricky fruiting crops are ready to pick by checking several ripeness signs together.

Open it from Garden Tools or the main menu. It now covers the main crops where readiness has useful physical signs: melons, squash, fruiting vegetables, roots, tubers, bulb alliums, pods, corn, brassica heads, citrus, tree fruit, berries, and tropical fruit.

The wizard asks crop-specific questions such as tendril dryness, ground spot colour, melon slip, aroma, rind hardness, stem dryness, and fruit firmness.

Results show Ready, Almost Ready, Wait Longer, or Use Soon, plus a confidence level based on how many signs were checked.

If the crop needs more time, you can add a harvest-check reminder to your To Do / Reminders list.

✅ To Do / Reminders ▶

Keep track of garden tasks with priorities, due dates, reminder times, and repeats.

Tap + Add Task to create a new to-do with a name, priority, optional due date, and reminder time.

Use Repeat for daily, weekly, or custom intervals. Completing a repeating task creates its next occurrence.

Tasks are sorted by priority: High → Medium → Low.

Overdue tasks show a red date. The badge count in the drawer shows open tasks.

Tap the tick circle to mark a task complete — it moves to the done section.

📓 Garden Journal ▶

Use Garden Journal as a searchable notebook for dated garden progress, experiments, pests, weather notes, harvest lessons and ideas.

Each entry can be general, linked to a garden, or linked to a specific zone so notes stay useful even months later.

Attach photos from your camera, device upload, or existing Plotera Gallery images. New uploads are also saved in Photo Gallery with a Journal tag.

Use tags such as harvest, pests, soil, weather, nursery or experiment, then search or filter by month and garden.

Good journal entries answer: what changed, what worked, what failed, and what you want to try next season.

📍 Zones ▶

Zones are named areas in your garden (beds, pots, rows). Each zone tracks its own plants, watering, and history.

Create zones from the garden grid by tapping empty cells.

The Zones page shows a full summary of all zones and their current status.

Log harvests, notes, and events directly from a zone's detail panel.

Planning & Tracking

🗂 Seed Inventory ▶

Keep a record of all the seeds you own — stock levels, expiry dates, and source details.

Add seeds manually or use the 📷 Packet Scanner to read details from a seed packet using your camera.

Set expiry dates — you'll get a notification when seeds are approaching their use-by date.

Track stock quantity so you know when to reorder before planting season.

📦 Garden Inventory ▶

Keep track of fertilisers, soil, amendments, pest treatments, tools and other supplies you already own.

Start with built-in categories, or add your own categories for the way you organise your shed.

Attach front and back photos so labels, ingredients and application instructions are easy to find later.

Use amount, unit and stock status to see what is available, running low or needs replacing.

🥕 Yield Log ▶

Record every harvest — what you picked, how much, and from which zone.

Log a yield from any zone's detail panel or from the Yield Log page directly.

Track weight or quantity — great for seeing which plants perform best.

Use the log to compare which zones and crops are producing best over time.

💰 Cost Tracker ▶

Log garden expenses to understand what your produce actually costs to grow.

Add expenses like soil, seeds, tools, and fertiliser with categories and amounts.

The total running cost is shown at the top so you can see cumulative spend.

📋 Zone History ▶

See everything that's ever been grown in each zone — essential for planning crop rotation.

History records automatically when you change or clear what's planted in a zone.

Use this alongside companion planting info to plan next season's layout.

Plants & Nursery

📚 Plant Encyclopedia ▶

A library of 214 vegetables, herbs, fruits, flowers and starter fruit trees with detailed growing guides.

Search by name or filter by category (Tomatoes, Brassicas, Root Vegetables, etc.).

Each entry shows spacing, depth, sun requirements, frost tolerance, and companion plants.

The Planting Windows section shows the best months to sow for your climate zone.

Companions in green are good neighbours; companions in red should be kept apart.

🌱 Seedling Nursery ▶

Track seedlings from sowing through to transplant with a visual tray grid and shared tray reminders.

Create a tray by tapping + New Tray. Set the number of rows and columns to match your physical tray.

Tap any cell to set the plant, status (Sown → Germinated → Ready → Transplanted), and notes.

Use Tray reminders to set a shared Water, Harden Off, Feed, or Plant into garden reminder for the whole tray. Choose a quick offset or an exact date and time.

When cells are Ready to Transplant, or a tray reminder becomes due, Plotera can alert you when notifications are enabled.

The Home Dashboard shows active trays at a glance with a progress summary.

📷 Photo Gallery ▶

A photo diary for each garden — document progress, pest damage, and great harvests.

Tap + Add Photo to upload from your camera or photo library. The Gallery picker can add multiple photos at once.

Photos are compressed to 800px and share a 50MB storage limit across your gardens.

Add a caption to each photo to remember what it shows.

Notifications & Alerts

🔔 Notification Centre & Settings ▶

Plotera can show in-app alerts and send server push or email reminders for due garden care and practical weather changes.

Open Notification Centre to hide an alert, snooze it for one day or one week, restore it later, or clear notifications that are still available in your device tray.

Open Settings, then Notification Settings, allow alerts, and tap Activate to register this phone or browser for server push while the app is closed.

Turn on Email Notifications in Settings to receive a daily digest of due reminders. You can send a test email there too.

💧 Watering due — a zone has passed its watering interval.

🌿 Fertiliser due — a zone hasn't been fed for its set interval.

✅ Task reminders — a task can alert at its chosen time on the due date, then remain visible if it becomes overdue.

🥕 Harvest ready — a plant is past its expected days-to-harvest.

🌱 Seedlings ready — nursery cells are marked Ready to Transplant.

🌱 Tray reminders — a shared nursery Water, Harden Off, Feed, or Plant into garden action reaches its chosen date and time.

🌦 Weather alerts — rain, heavy rain, frost, extreme heat, strong wind, and high UV can be toggled from Settings or the Weather page.

❄️ Frost warning — your garden forecast drops near freezing.

🗂 Seeds expiring — seed packets are near their use-by date.

Data & Privacy

🔐 Usage & Privacy ▶

Plotera stores coarse usage summaries so we can improve the app.

We track broad feature counts, app section views, notification health, device class, timezone and installed-app status.

We do not store IP history for in-app analytics, sell data, or use advertising trackers. Public website pages may use Google Analytics for aggregate launch-page traffic.

💬 Contact & Support ▶

Found a bug or have a feature idea? We'd love to hear from you.

Tap Contact / Support in the menu to send a message directly from the app.

You can report bugs, request features, or just share what you've been growing!

Ongoing Development & Updates

▶ v3.5.228 — September 2026 ▶

Garden Location Advisor helps choose better garden positions from sun and shade.

Location Advisor — open it from the main menu or Garden Tools to compare north, east, south and west aspects.

Sun tracking — the advisor uses the phone's GPS to calculate sunrise, sunset, daylight, peak sun angle and estimated direct sun hours for a proposed new garden spot.

Camera view — on supported phones, the camera overlay and live compass help line up the calculated sun position with the real yard.

Season check — Summer vs Winter compares daylight, sunrise, sunset and estimated direct sun for the same proposed garden spot.

Place Garden Here — the New Garden flow uses the GPS spot and tries to fill a nearby area and postcode automatically.

Candidate spots — save several possible locations and compare their direct-sun scores before choosing where to build.

Compass help — if you do not know north, use the live compass to set the garden aspect from the direction the phone is facing.

Crop fit — shade sliders adjust the site score and suggest crop groups that suit the chosen spot.

▶ v3.5.220 — September 2026 ▶

Garden editing controls now stay above zone labels.

Garden view — the Grid Toolbar button and panel now sit above zone name labels when editing your garden.

▶ v3.5.219 — September 2026 ▶

Several botanical reference images have been replaced with cleaner artwork.

Plant references — Grapefruit, Zucchini, Zinnia and Egyptian Spinach now use cleaner, non-stretched botanical artwork.

Encyclopedia — the replacement references include whole plant, leaf, flower and harvest/detail images.

▶ v3.5.218 — September 2026 ▶

Botanical reference images have cleaner framing.

Plant references — thin divider lines have been cropped out of botanical images without adding white mask marks.

Encyclopedia — whole plant, leaf, flower and detail references now use page-aware crop boundaries from the original sheets.

▶ v3.5.217 — September 2026 ▶

Large gardens open with less freezing on Android.

Garden view — the 2D grid now does less work while opening large planted gardens.

Touch controls — garden cell interactions are wired more lightly so the first open should feel smoother.

▶ v3.5.216 — September 2026 ▶

Plant guide photos and botanical references cleaned up.

Plant guides — real-world photos are back as the main plant image, with botanical drawings kept lower as supporting reference cards.

Botanical references — reference drawings were regenerated in plant-name order with tighter crops to avoid divider lines.

▶ v3.5.213 — September 2026 ▶

Garden visuals, plant references and photo credits upgraded.

Garden view — plants in your 2D and 3D garden now use more individual, plant-specific artwork instead of broad generic shapes.

Plant ID help — plant guides include botanical whole-plant, leaf, flower and harvest/detail reference drawings alongside real-world photos.

Photo references — new tomato references and cleaned-up plant photo credits make the encyclopedia more complete.

▶ v3.5.215 — September 2026 ▶

Garden opening performance improved.

Garden view — large gardens now avoid a duplicate 2D canvas redraw during opening, especially on Android.

▶ v3.5.210 — September 2026 ▶

Android 3D garden gesture follow-up.

3D controls — Android two-finger pan keeps the improved direction, while drag rotation now matches the expected orbit direction.

▶ v3.5.208 — September 2026 ▶

Settings navigation polish.

Settings — account, garden, notification and weather cards now keep descriptions under their headings for cleaner mobile scanning.

Sub-settings — settings opened from the Settings hub now show a back path so users can see where they are and return cleanly.

▶ v3.5.207 — September 2026 ▶

Growth simulator default.

Garden view — 2D and 3D gardens now open with Growth Simulator turned off by default.

Manual control — use the Growth Simulator button when you want to preview virtual crop stages.

▶ v3.5.206 — September 2026 ▶

Android garden stability fix.

2D garden labels — zone names now stay above the planted crop artwork.

Android garden loading — installed app gardens reuse bounded sprite variants so the first 2D render is lighter.

▶ v3.5.205 — August 2026 ▶

Garden viewing polish.

Desktop garden view — the main garden workspace now opens wider on large screens.

Android clarity — installed app garden rendering now uses higher bounded output quality for 2D sprites and 3D views.

▶ v3.5.204 — August 2026 ▶

Garden visual polish.

Popup layering — zone labels now stay behind app sheets such as What’s New.

Zone colours — older custom colours now display through the softer Plotera earth palette.

Sharper gardens — 2D plant sprites and 3D gardens now render at higher quality on modern screens.

▶ v3.5.203 — August 2026 ▶

Sign-in install polish.

Centred branding — the sign-in screen logo now sits properly centred above the auth forms.

Google Play — the sign-in screen Android badge now opens Plotera's Google Play listing.

🖼 v3.5.202 — August 2026 ▶

Journal photo attachments.

Photo notes — add camera, uploaded or existing Gallery photos to Garden Journal entries.

Gallery link — new Journal uploads also appear in Photo Gallery with a Journal tag for filtering.

📓 v3.5.201 — August 2026 ▶

Garden Journal first pass.

Garden Journal — add dated notes for garden progress, experiments, weather, pests, harvests and lessons learned.

Linked notes — entries can be attached to a garden or zone, then found later with search, month and garden filters.

Tags — use short labels such as harvest, pests, soil, weather, nursery or experiment to make old observations easier to find.

⚙️ v3.5.200 — August 2026 ▶

Settings consolidation and light mode readability polish.

Settings — account, garden, notification and weather preferences now live together in one main menu area.

Light mode — dashboard cards, garden panels, weather cards and newer inline panels now use stronger readable text colours.

Navigation — Notification Settings and My Account are still available, but now open from Settings instead of separate drawer entries.

🌿 v3.5.198 — August 2026 ▶

Cleaner 2D garden zone outlines.

Garden map — planting zones now keep soil-coloured grid cells with a single coloured outline around each group.

Zone labels — zone names now appear on the map so larger gardens are easier to scan.

Earthy colours — zone colours now use a softer curated palette instead of an unrestricted colour picker.

📣 v3.5.197 — August 2026 ▶

Android launch polish and first-garden improvements.

Starter gardens — new accounts now begin with a clearer demo garden so first-time users can explore safely.

Weather setup — signup location now carries into starter garden weather and planting guidance.

Android launch — Plotera install links now open the Google Play listing for a cleaner install path.

🌦️ v3.5.195 — August 2026 ▶

Signup starter garden location fix.

Starter garden — new accounts now start with “My First Demo Garden” so the sample layout is clearer.

Weather location — signup location autocomplete coordinates now carry into the starter garden and account weather settings.

Website install links — public Android install badges now open Plotera on Google Play.

🧪 v3.5.194 — August 2026 ▶

Website navigation fix.

Website menu — restored Demo to the desktop navigation and lifted the Guides dropdown above homepage artwork.

Demo app — strengthened mobile Firefox tap handling for the demo Home, Gardens, Nursery and Plants tabs.

🧪 v3.5.193 — August 2026 ▶

Daily weather timing fix.

Weather forecast — daily garden forecast notifications now only send during a short window after the user's selected local forecast time.

Weather alerts — rain, wind, frost, heat and UV alerts can still send whenever forecast conditions match the user's alert settings.

🧪 v3.5.192 — August 2026 ▶

Demo tab click fix.

Website demo — strengthened the demo app controls so Nursery and Plant tabs respond reliably on mobile.

Mobile layout — added touch-safe spacing and layering for the demo tabs and action buttons.

🧪 v3.5.191 — August 2026 ▶

Public demo mini-app polish.

Demo app — the public website demo now has working Home, Gardens, Nursery and Plant tabs with mobile-safe navigation.

Garden demo — the garden preview now keeps the 2D/3D toggle on the garden and places selection tools below the garden like the real app flow.

Nursery demo — users can now select tray plugs and sow sample encyclopedia plants in the demo without saving real data.

🚀 v3.5.190 — August 2026 ▶

Launch-ready wording sweep.

Public website — removed the pre-launch banner and changed public copy to launch-access wording.

Pricing language — Free and future Pro wording now matches the Play Store launch direction.

Admin wording — visible early-user labels now use Early Access language while keeping the underlying data safe.

🌐 v3.5.188 — August 2026 ▶

Android website link handling.

Website links — the Android wrapper now only claims the real app route, so public pages like Demo and Guides stay in the browser.

Play bundle — the next Android build is prepared as versionCode 21 / versionName 1.0.19.

🌐 v3.5.187 — August 2026 ▶

Public demo mini-app rebuild.

Demo tabs — the public demo now has working Home, Gardens, Nursery and Plants sections instead of static tab labels.

Garden demo — the demo garden now puts the 2D/3D toggle on the garden and keeps selection tools in a compact toolbar under the grid.

🌐 v3.5.186 — August 2026 ▶

Public website mobile polish.

Mobile menu — the public website now keeps Guides as one compact menu entry instead of listing every guide page.

Guide pages — show-more crop tables keep the control below the expanded list, and the mobile footer wraps without cutting off links.

📱 v3.5.185 — August 2026 ▶

Weather forecast and alert timing clarified.

Daily forecast — the garden forecast summary now waits for the user's saved forecast time.

Weather alerts — rain, wind, frost, heat and UV alerts remain event-based so they can send when forecast conditions match the user's toggles.

📱 v3.5.183 — August 2026 ▶

Guide crop-list tightening.

Guide previews — every encyclopedia-backed crop list across the public guides now opens as a short, readable preview instead of a long plant dump.

Expandable detail — longer crop tables remain available behind a show-more control for readers who want the full data.

📱 v3.5.182 — August 2026 ▶

Public guide polish.

Guide menu — the public website now has a Guides dropdown linking straight to the main problem-solving guides.

Shorter guide pages — long encyclopedia-backed plant tables now start with a concise preview and let readers expand the full list.

📱 v3.5.181 — August 2026 ▶

Public guide app screenshots.

SEO guides — public guide pages now show matching Plotera app screens so readers can see the tool that solves each gardening problem.

Reusable renderer — guide JSON now supports app screenshot sections with fixed image dimensions.

🖼️ v3.5.180 — August 2026 ▶

Public guide artwork pass.

Guide pages — key public SEO guides now use dedicated compressed garden artwork instead of borrowing encyclopedia crop photos.

Performance — guide hero images include fixed dimensions to keep page loading stable.

🛠️ v3.5.179 — August 2026 ▶

Garden position labels and safer debug logging.

Garden position — garden labels such as near the back fence are now treated as yard notes, not weather or climate locations.

Weather location — forecasts, planting zone and Auto Garden Builder now rely on saved weather/climate location data.

Scoped diagnostics — Nursery debug logging now supports per-user capture and temporary 24-hour global capture.

🌦️ v3.5.178 — August 2026 ▶

Weather push reliability fix.

Account weather location — daily forecasts now use the saved account weather location first, with garden coordinates only as an older-data fallback.

Rate-limit protection — scheduled weather checks now reuse recent cached forecasts before calling the live weather service.

Cleaner diagnostics — default garden names like My First Garden are no longer treated as weather search locations.

📷 v3.5.177 — August 2026 ▶

Photo Gallery sorting polish.

Gallery sort — photos now default to newest first, with options for oldest first, caption A-Z and type.

Viewer order — opening a photo keeps the same filter and sort order shown in the gallery grid.

📚 v3.5.176 — August 2026 ▶

New public garden guides for launch SEO and user education.

Problem-led guides — added pages for what to plant, yellow leaves, fertilising and harvest readiness.

Watering guide — expanded with clearer links to Plotera's Watering Wizard, weather advice and per-zone schedules.

Website SEO — guides use curated plant photos and encyclopedia-backed tables where useful.

✉️ v3.5.175 — August 2026 ▶

Email reminder delivery reliability pass.

Email toggles — turning on an individual email category now reliably enables scheduled email delivery.

Scheduler logs — Nursery debug logs now show whether reminder emails were sent, skipped, disabled, already sent or failed.

Compatibility — older saved notification settings are handled more safely by the server.

🧾 v3.5.173 — August 2026 ▶

Admin troubleshooting logs for launch testing.

Debug logs — Nursery can now inspect weather, notification, server and client error events.

Per-user export — admin can download CSV logs for a specific user when testing reminders, weather or app errors.

Safe detail — passwords, tokens, secrets and push endpoints are redacted before log storage.

🌦️ v3.5.172 — August 2026 ▶

More reliable daily weather push notifications.

Forecast buffer — the server now keeps the latest successful weather forecast ready before the daily push time.

Retry support — brief weather API failures now get retried before Plotera falls back to a limited forecast message.

Last good forecast — daily pushes can reuse recent forecast data when the live API briefly fails.

🌦️ v3.5.164 — August 2026 ▶

Weather notification test and top navigation polish.

Weather test — Send Weather Test can now use the saved account weather location when the selected garden does not have coordinates.

Navigation state — the top Garden tab no longer stays highlighted after moving to another menu item.

🌱 v3.5.163 — August 2026 ▶

Seed inventory row polish and clearer stock labels.

Seed artwork — encyclopedia plant artwork now sits inside a tidy badge beside the seed name for a cleaner list view.

Stock labels — seed status now says Good stock, Low stock or Out of stock instead of the vague Good label.

🌦️ v3.5.162 — August 2026 ▶

Weather notification location fallback and seed inventory artwork.

Weather notifications — scheduled weather alerts can now use the saved account weather location when a garden does not have coordinates saved.

Seed inventory — seed rows now use encyclopedia plant artwork beside plant names instead of generic seed-type emoji.

🌦️ v3.5.161 — August 2026 ▶

Weather notification testing and daily forecast reliability.

Weather push test — Weather Alerts now includes a server-side test button for confirming weather notifications on a subscribed device.

Daily forecast — changing the forecast time during the day no longer gets blocked by an earlier forecast delivery key.

⏰ v3.5.160 — August 2026 ▶

Reminder timing reliability for push and email delivery.

Timed reminders — To Do and nursery reminders now use the visible date and time as the source of truth across the app, server push and email checks.

Timezone safety — server saves no longer create shifted reminder timestamps from visible reminder fields.

🔐 v3.5.159 — August 2026 ▶

Signup scroll hotfix for mobile and Play Store review.

Create account — long signup forms now scroll properly on smaller phone screens so the Create Account button stays reachable.

Mobile auth — the auth screen now uses dynamic viewport sizing to behave better across Android, iOS and browser installs.

💧 v3.5.158 — August 2026 ▶

Watering display hotfix, app page header polish and softer website navigation.

Watering rows — fixed newer encyclopedia plants showing undefined names/icons in watering schedules.

Page headers — main app sections now use a more consistent title size, spacing and compact action button style.

Navigation — normal menu pages avoid stray back buttons while wizard and detail flows keep them.

Website — public website pages now softly fade between internal pages without affecting the app.

🌤️ v3.5.157 — August 2026 ▶

Daily weather forecast notifications and clearer forecast dates.

Forecast dates — each day in Weather now shows the date as well as the weekday.

Daily forecast — Weather Alerts now include a daily forecast toggle with a custom local delivery time, defaulting to 8:30am.

Delivery channels — Notification Settings now lets each reminder type be sent by Push, Email, or both.

Alert clarity — the Alerts explanation now appears before the switches so the controls are easier to understand.

🌦️ v3.5.156 — August 2026 ▶

Weather forecast layout and planting advice filters.

Forecast layout — 7-day forecast cards now stack vertically with a short daily summary and practical warnings beside each day.

Alert settings — the Alerts tab now focuses on notification toggles, while wind, rain, frost, heat and UV forecast warnings appear in Forecast.

Garden advice — planting suggestions can now be filtered by greens, roots, fruiting crops, herbs and flowers.

🌤️ v3.5.155 — August 2026 ▶

Weather section organisation and recommendation fixes.

Weather tabs — Weather is now split into Forecast, Garden Advice, and Alerts tabs.

Planting suggestions — Weather now loads the encyclopedia before recommending plants and matches Calendar's this-month/next-month planting logic.

🧭 v3.5.154 — August 2026 ▶

Small 3D garden view polish.

3D controls — the active plant zone summary no longer sits underneath the 2D/3D toggle on mobile.

☁️ v3.5.153 — August 2026 ▶

A dedicated Weather section for garden-aware forecasts and recommendations.

Weather hub — added a main-menu Weather page with current conditions and a 7-day garden forecast.

Alert controls — rain, heavy rain, frost, heat, wind, and UV toggles are mirrored directly inside Weather.

Garden advice — Weather now suggests what to sow, transplant, protect, water, or harvest using the active garden climate and encyclopedia planting windows.

🌦️ v3.5.152 — August 2026 ▶

Weather alerts, social sharing, and clearer garden controls.

Weather notifications — rain, heavy rain, frost, extreme heat, wind, and UV alerts now run through the same push/email notification system.

Watering schedules — watering cards now show clear Edit and Delete actions instead of hiding those controls behind a tap.

Zone history — archived zones now display safer plant names, icons, dates, and cell counts without showing undefined values.

Social preview — shared Plotera links now use a logo-focused Facebook/Twitter preview image.

☰ v3.5.151 — August 2026 ▶

Emergency drawer hotfix.

Menu repair — the unified hamburger drawer now mounts outside hidden app panels so it opens from the dashboard and restored Android sessions.

Android refresh — service worker cache names were bumped so the Play Store wrapper picks up the repaired shell cleanly after deploy.

⏰ v3.5.150 — August 2026 ▶

Reminder time preservation fix.

To Do / Reminders — saved reminder times now stay locked to the selected time when reopening or editing a task.

Reminder lists — task cards and calendar day details use the same time formatting so the visible time matches the notification schedule.

📦 v3.5.149 — August 2026 ▶

Garden inventory and reminder list clarity.

Garden Inventory — add products, substrates, amendments, pest treatments, tools and custom categories with amount, notes and front/back photos.

To Do / Reminders — reminder cards now show the scheduled time directly in the list.

⏰ v3.5.148 — August 2026 ▶

Follow-up fixes for onboarding tours, mobile builder layout, and timed reminders.

Restarted onboarding — restarting the welcome wizard now also relaunches the interactive home tips after setup.

Builder mobile layout — Auto Garden Builder now has safer scrolling and tighter dimension controls on smaller screens.

Reminder timing — server push now uses the saved app timezone so same-day reminders fire at the intended local time.

🧭 v3.5.147 — August 2026 ▶

Refreshed onboarding and garden-aware Auto Garden Builder climate handling.

Welcome wizard — first-run setup now explains the main app areas and can be restarted from Settings without touching garden data.

Garden-aware builder — Auto Garden Builder now uses the active garden’s saved weather/climate profile and soil profile when launched from that garden.

🖼️ v3.5.146 — August 2026 ▶

Improved plant encyclopedia photo framing and loading.

Clearer plant photos — encyclopedia images now use a consistent portrait WebP frame with Plotera-green padding instead of awkward hard crops.

Faster detail pages — plant pages now request smaller portrait derivatives for mobile and desktop viewing.

🛡️ v3.5.145 — August 2026 ▶

Added a persistent Hostinger environment-file loader.

Safer deploys — Plotera now checks the persistent server env file before startup so Hostinger rebuilds do not depend on hPanel environment variables staying attached.

🔒 v3.5.144 — August 2026 ▶

Added first-pass launch security hardening.

Safer uploads — gallery photo saves now have stricter server-side image type and size checks before they are merged into garden data.

Launch readiness — backups, admin settings, admin imports, and health checks now have tighter guardrails for the Play Store launch pass.

Play bundle — the Android internal-testing bundle is ready as versionCode 11 / versionName 1.0.10.

🧭 v3.5.143 — August 2026 ▶

Moved more wizard recommendations onto encyclopedia plant data.

Cleaner plant source — common Watering and Fertilising Wizard plant choices now come from encyclopedia advisor flags instead of separate old lists.

Harvest Wizard coverage — harvest-readiness support now uses plant-level module mappings, keeping future encyclopedia updates tied to the wizard data they depend on.

🌍 v3.5.142 — August 2026 ▶

Fixed planting windows for northern-hemisphere gardeners.

Worldwide seasons — encyclopedia planting windows now adjust by garden hemisphere for every plant, so UK, US, Canadian and European gardens no longer inherit Australian-season timing.

Builder alignment — Plant detail calendars, Sow This Month reminders and Auto Garden Builder now use the same location-aware planting-window lookup.

🌗 v3.5.141 — August 2026 ▶

Completed a light/dark mode and menu readability pass.

Theme polish — light mode now keeps the app header, drawer, footer, filter chips, and floating garden controls readable without washing out the permanent dark chrome.

Menu cleanup — the drawer now labels the support/settings block, renames Garden View and Fertiliser Log more clearly, and surfaces Soil Wizard directly under Garden Tools.

🌿 v3.5.140 — August 2026 ▶

Completed the plant encyclopedia photo review pass.

Reviewed plant photos — encyclopedia crops now use the selected local WebP photos from the human review pass.

Stable image sizing — uploaded and URL-sourced photos are rebuilt into the same thumbnail, card, guide, and plant-page sizes so mixed source dimensions still display cleanly.

No manual outbound image links — manually sourced photos are served locally and no longer expose external source links in app captions.

📷 v3.5.139 — August 2026 ▶

Made gallery batch uploads safer on mobile.

Local-first photos — each selected gallery photo is saved to the device cache and queued for retry before server sync starts.

Background sync — multi-photo uploads no longer wait for a server round trip after every photo, reducing frozen-feeling saves on Android.

🌗 v3.5.138 — August 2026 ▶

Tightened theme readability and moved more builder logic to encyclopedia profiles.

Calendar polish — the calendar day panel now respects light and dark mode styling instead of forcing dark inline colours.

Builder source cleanup — Auto Garden Builder watering intervals and drought scoring now prefer each plant's encyclopedia water profile before falling back to legacy fields.

🔔 v3.5.137 — August 2026 ▶

Made notification preference and centre actions lighter to save.

Focused sync — hiding, snoozing and toggling notification settings now saves only notification preferences/state instead of pushing the whole garden data file.

💧 v3.5.136 — August 2026 ▶

Moved garden water tips closer to the encyclopedia source of truth.

Plant profiles — garden tips now prefer each plant's encyclopedia watering profile before using older category fallback advice.

🧭 v3.5.135 — August 2026 ▶

Smoothed mobile navigation in the 3D garden viewer.

Pinch stability — releasing fingers after pinch zoom/pan no longer reinterprets the gesture as a sudden rotate from stale touch coordinates.

🔔 v3.5.134 — August 2026 ▶

Replaced the Android notification monogram with a Plotera sprout badge.

Notification icon — Android push notifications now use a simple leaf/sprout badge instead of a plain P in a circle.

🌱 v3.5.133 — August 2026 ▶

Matched the Android pre-splash to Plotera's branded launch screen.

Darker launch colour — the native Play Store wrapper now uses the same deep green as the Plotera splash artwork.

Native silhouette mark — the Android system splash now shows subtle vegetable artwork instead of a plain blank green screen.

☰ v3.5.132 — August 2026 ▶

Unified the app drawer navigation.

One menu — the dashboard and garden views now use the same drawer so menu items cannot drift between two versions.

Main section — Calendar and To Do / Reminders now sit in the Main menu near Notification Centre.

Cleaner navigation — drawer links can now enter the garden app shell from the dashboard before opening the requested section.

🔔 v3.5.131 — August 2026 ▶

Unified to-do reminders with calendar, Notification Centre and push delivery.

Reminder centre — due reminders and reminders coming up in the next 24 hours now appear in the Notification Centre instead of only overdue tasks showing.

Instant refresh — adding, editing, completing or deleting a to-do now refreshes dashboard alerts, Notification Centre and calendar views together.

Server push — reminder preferences now tolerate both old and new saved preference keys so Android push/email checks do not skip to-do reminders.

🌿 v3.5.130 — August 2026 ▶

Fuller 3D plant foliage pass.

More detailed leaves — procedural 3D crops now use pointed leaf blades with subtle veins instead of simple oval leaf blobs.

Fuller plant shapes — mature trees, vines, berries, runners, leafy crops, corn, roots and upright fruiting crops now render with more foliage.

Future model path — the shared worklist now tracks the goal of moving toward licensed GLB/GLTF crop assets with species-specific growth stages.

🔔 v3.5.129 — August 2026 ▶

3D controls and reminder activation fixes.

3D navigation — the 3D garden can now pan around the bed with two-finger drag on touch devices or Shift-drag/right-drag on desktop.

Growth Simulator help — the explanation panel is clearer on mobile, includes a close button, and returns when growth mode is toggled on.

Reminder setup — notification activation now shows progress and errors instead of appearing stuck while Android registers server push.

📱 v3.5.128 — August 2026 ▶

Modern low-poly 3D garden polish.

Scene polish — 3D gardens now use warmer lighting, subtle fog, richer shadows and more dimensional bed tiles.

Better plant models — trees, vines, berries, runners, tropical plants, flowers, leafy crops, brassicas, roots and fruiting plants have denser procedural shapes.

Natural variation — repeated plants now get small colour, leaf and fruit-placement differences so garden beds feel less copied and pasted.

Still lightweight — the upgraded style stays procedural, avoiding heavy downloaded model files.

📱 v3.5.125 — August 2026 ▶

Android splash edge colour.

Android launch — the Play wrapper splash background now matches the dark Plotera artwork edge to avoid a brighter green border on tall phones.

🌱 v3.5.124 — August 2026 ▶

Seedling tray mobile toolbar fix.

No sideways scroll — seed tray workbench controls now stay visible on mobile in grouped rows for selection, sowing and reminders.

🧰 v3.5.123 — August 2026 ▶

Admin access view, Android launch and nursery tray polish.

Nursery admin — user tables now show current early/full-access status plus calculated launch Free or Intro Pro state and signup age.

Tray workbench — seed tray tools are grouped into selection, sowing and tray-task sections with clearer guidance.

Android wrapper — the next Play bundle tightens launch routing and reduces the native Android icon splash before Plotera's branded splash.

🌿 v3.5.122 — August 2026 ▶

Free and Pro preview.

Entitlement preview — Plotera now has a central Free/Pro entitlement service, kept in safe early-access mode by default so current users are not locked out.

Upgrade screens — 3D garden view, Growth Simulator, advanced reports and Free plan limits now have preview upgrade prompts for launch testing.

🌱 v3.5.121 — August 2026 ▶

Seedling tray workbench.

Tray editor — seedling trays now open into a larger plug-by-plug workbench with single select, lasso selection, batch sowing and visible edit controls.

Plant picker — tray defaults, plug edits and batch sowing now use a searchable encyclopedia picker that pulls crop icons and average harvest timing.

📱 v3.5.120 — August 2026 ▶

Android startup and splash polish.

Startup recovery — the installed Android app now recovers from the rare empty plant-detail screen and returns to a stable dashboard or garden view.

Native splash — the Play wrapper launch artwork now matches Plotera's full portrait splash instead of showing the round icon screen first.

🔗 v3.5.119 — August 2026 ▶

Android installed-certificate verification.

Play app links — added the certificate fingerprint Android reports for the installed Xiaomi test build, so Plotera can be re-verified as a full-screen app.

📱 v3.5.118 — August 2026 ▶

Android back-button and launch QA follow-up.

Back button — Android back now closes open drawers, modals and sheets before exiting the Play Store app.

Nursery QA — seedling tray save/reload behaviour was reviewed and documented for the Play testing pass.

🔗 v3.5.117 — August 2026 ▶

Android app link verification follow-up.

Play app links — added the Google Play quantum signing fingerprint alongside the upload and classic Play fingerprints so Play-installed builds can verify the app domain.

🔗 v3.5.116 — August 2026 ▶

Android app link verification.

Play app links — the app now verifies against the Play Store signing certificate, so plotera.app links open straight in the app without the browser address bar.

📱 v3.5.115 — August 2026 ▶

Android internal-test fixes.

Calendar dates — Auto Garden Builder, harvest windows, reminders, watering, and fertiliser markers now use local dates to avoid showing yesterday or invalid dates.

Seedling trays — new trays can now select an encyclopedia plant and inherit its icon and harvest timing.

Android polish — garden grid pointer capture now releases more reliably, drawer fallback text is cleaner, and gallery downloads live in the photo viewer only.

📷 v3.5.114 — August 2026 ▶

Pre-launch gallery and calendar polish.

Photo downloads — gallery photos can now be saved from the opened full-screen viewer.

Calendar markers — reminder, watering, and fertiliser changes now refresh the calendar dots immediately after saving.

📱 v3.5.113 — August 2026 ▶

Android Play Store wrapper preparation.

Play Store build — added the Android Trusted Web Activity wrapper project for the Plotera app experience.

Verified domain link — added Digital Asset Links so Android can connect the Play app package to plotera.app.

🎨 v3.5.112 — August 2026 ▶

Light and dark mode polish.

Cleaner light mode — app cards, modals, toolbars, plant pages, calendar panels, nursery screens, and wizard controls now use proper light surfaces and readable text.

Appearance setting — the account toggle is now clearly labelled Light Mode so the setting matches the behaviour.

🔎 v3.5.111 — August 2026 ▶

App title contrast polish.

Clearer section titles — Watering, Fertilizer, Notification Centre, plant detail sections, and wizard step labels are easier to read against the dark garden panels.

🌳 v3.5.110 — August 2026 ▶

3D growth simulator profile polish.

Plant-specific 3D profiles — all 214 encyclopedia plants now have distinct visual profile data for the garden growth simulator.

Better silhouettes — herbs, flowers, roots, brassicas, legumes, berries, fruit trees, vines, grains and alliums now vary more clearly by height, model family and colour.

🌱 v3.5.109 — August 2026 ▶

Plant encyclopedia icon polish.

Unique crop icons — every encyclopedia plant now has its own 2D SVG icon instead of sharing lookalike placeholders with related crops.

Better scanning — citrus, berries, legumes, tubers, Asian greens, herbs and flowers are easier to tell apart in lists, zones and plant pickers.

📱 v3.5.108 — August 2026 ▶

Public demo mobile layout polish.

Website demo — the interactive garden demo now sits inside a Plotera-style app shell and no longer stretches wider than mobile screens.

3D fallback — browsers without WebGL now show a clear 3D support message instead of staying on a loading overlay.

🧭 v3.5.107 — August 2026 ▶

Interactive website demo rebuild.

Public demo — the website demo now feels closer to the real app, with a sandbox garden toolbar, zone editing, zone creation, erase/reset controls and a working 2D/3D toggle.

Safe preview — demo edits stay in the browser only and never touch user accounts or garden data.

🔎 v3.5.106 — August 2026 ▶

Responsive plant photo SEO pass.

Plant pages — encyclopedia photos now serve smaller 480w/800w derivatives through responsive image markup, reducing unnecessary image weight on phones.

🌿 v3.5.105 — August 2026 ▶

Garden zone tap fix.

Zone info cards — tapping planted zones now opens the quick info card reliably after the garden pan/zoom controls were added.

🖼️ v3.5.104 — August 2026 ▶

Plant encyclopedia photo frame polish.

Photo sizing — opened encyclopedia photos now render in a consistent crop frame in the app and on public plant pages, even when source images have different dimensions.

🗑️ v3.5.103 — August 2026 ▶

Persistent garden deletion fix.

Manage Gardens — deleted gardens now save a server-side delete marker, preventing the data merge layer from restoring them after refresh.

🛠️ v3.5.102 — August 2026 ▶

Manage Gardens delete confirmation fix.

Garden deletion — confirmation dialogs now stack above Manage Gardens, so delete can be confirmed from inside the modal.

🥕 v3.5.101 — August 2026 ▶

Garden management and Harvest Wizard usability fixes.

Manage Gardens — delete now uses the same safe persisted delete flow as Garden Settings.

Harvest Wizard — the crop picker now has search and can start from crops already planted across your gardens.

🔎 v3.5.100 — August 2026 ▶

Plant encyclopedia photo performance pass.

WebP photos — all encyclopedia plant photos now use local WebP sources instead of JPG/PNG originals.

Stable layout — public plant pages now reserve photo dimensions and prioritise the main plant image for faster, steadier loading.

Guide images — guide thumbnails, cards, and hero images were regenerated from the new photo sources.

🔎 v3.5.99 — August 2026 ▶

Added the first Soil Profile and Soil Wizard system.

Soil Wizard — new guided assessment for soil texture, drainage, water retention, compaction, organic matter, earthworms, and optional pH with confidence labels.

Reusable profiles — gardens now link to a Soil Profile by id, so one profile can serve multiple beds without duplicating data.

Smarter recommendations — Watering Advisor, Fertilising Advisor, and Auto Garden Builder now use assigned soil profiles to adjust guidance and crop suitability.

🔎 v3.5.98 — August 2026 ▶

Completed the broad encyclopedia scan for harvest-worthy crops.

Root crops — added carrot-style readiness checks for carrots, beetroot, radish, turnip, daikon, parsnip, swede, celeriac, and salsify.

Storage crops — added tuber and bulb modules for potatoes, sweet potatoes, ginger, turmeric, taro, cassava, onions, garlic, shallots, and related crops.

More harvest cues — added modules for corn, pods, brassica heads/stems, zucchini/summer squash, okra, luffa, tomatillo, banana, tree fruits, grapes, pomegranate, persimmon, kiwi, papaya, and olive.

🔎 v3.5.97 — August 2026 ▶

Expanded Harvest Wizard crop coverage.

More crops — added harvest checks for tomato, cucumber, eggplant, capsicum/chilli, citrus, avocado, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, fig, dragon fruit, and passionfruit.

Citrus variants — orange, blood orange, lemon, Meyer lemon, lime, makrut lime, finger lime, and Tahitian lime now route through the citrus readiness module.

Plant-aware picker — if these crops exist in the active garden, the wizard surfaces them first before showing the broader crop list.

🔎 v3.5.96 — August 2026 ▶

Added the first Harvest Wizard pass.

Harvest Wizard — new Garden Tools helper for judging watermelon, rockmelon/cantaloupe, pineapple, pumpkin, and winter squash readiness.

Multi-sign scoring — results combine crop-specific checks such as tendril dryness, ground spot colour, slip, aroma, rind hardness, stem dryness, and firmness.

Reminder flow — crops that need more time can add a follow-up harvest-check reminder to To Do / Reminders.

🔎 v3.5.95 — August 2026 ▶

Garden screen render hotfix.

Garden opening — fixed a climate-zone render error that could stop garden pages from drawing after the dashboard loaded.

Older garden data — garden records are now normalised before rendering so missing legacy fields cannot break the grid.

🔎 v3.5.94 — August 2026 ▶

Android installed-app splash recovery hotfix.

PWA cache refresh — service worker cache names now match the current release so Android installs pick up the fresh app shell.

Boot safety — startup auth checks now time out instead of leaving the splash screen visible indefinitely.

Splash fallback — the launch splash now hides after a short failsafe delay even if Android stalls during startup.

🔎 v3.5.93 — August 2026 ▶

Completed the practical planting-zone override pass.

Manual zone control — Garden Settings now lets you choose Auto or manually set Tropical, Subtropical, Mediterranean, Temperate, Cool, or Dry/Arid.

Advice alignment — in-app planting reminders and plant guide calendar bars now use the same Plotera climate zone shown for the active garden.

Clear status — the garden zone card now distinguishes location-estimated zones from manually set zones.

🔎 v3.5.92 — August 2026 ▶

First worldwide planting-zone display pass.

Garden zones — dashboard garden cards and the garden page now show the Plotera climate zone for that garden.

Regional context — gardens also show estimated regional hardiness context such as USDA, RHS, Australian or equivalent cold-hardiness labels.

Worldwide base — saved weather locations store country and state/region metadata from autocomplete, while planting windows still use Plotera's climate-specific encyclopedia data.

🔎 v3.5.91 — August 2026 ▶

Faster background saves across the main garden tools.

Focused syncing — water, fertiliser, todos, nursery trays, seeds, yields, costs, photos, settings and grid edits now sync only the changed section where possible.

Local first — edits update the local app immediately, then sync to the server in the background so the screen no longer feels frozen while saving.

Data safety — if a focused sync fails, Plotera keeps the local copy and queues the full save fallback.

🔎 v3.5.90 — August 2026 ▶

Improved garden editing, zone saves and contributor documentation.

Garden gestures — Single Select now allows drag-to-pan, while taps still select cells.

Zone workflow — browsing a zone highlights the whole zone and opens the quick info card, and encyclopedia plants prefill average harvest days when creating zone details.

Saving — zone edits now save locally first and sync the focused zone update in the background instead of waiting on a full garden payload.

🔎 v3.5.89 — July 2026 ▶

Refined the public demo garden and guide behaviour.

Demo garden — the public demo now uses a larger, more realistic spaced layout with clearer crop blocks and small plant icons.

Sowing guide — sowing-depth tables now focus on plants actually grown from seed, leaving grafted fruit, citrus and berries out of that table.

Public pages — marketing pages now support subtle page transitions where browsers allow them, with reduced-motion respected.

🔎 v3.5.88 — July 2026 ▶

Merged the latest public guides, demo garden and SEO polish.

Guides — public guides now include richer hero artwork, photo strips and faster table thumbnails.

Demo garden — the demo page now opens with a real pre-built garden layout, selectable zones and encyclopedia-backed plant details.

SEO polish — the public site now has canonical host redirect support, documented guide fact-checking and reduced-motion-safe page animation.

🔎 v3.5.87 — July 2026 ▶

Improved Auto Garden Builder crop grouping.

Cleaner blocks — generated zones now round awkward counts into practical rows, rectangles or square blocks.

Garden spacing — larger generated beds now reserve empty bed cells between plant groups where possible.

Less scattering — spare cells are no longer automatically absorbed into nearby crop zones just to fill every gap.

🔎 v3.5.86 — July 2026 ▶

Added privacy-light usage insight and improved mobile garden editing.

Nursery insight — admin can now see coarse device, install, notification, source and feature-use summaries.

Garden toolbar — grid tools now open from a top tray and keep the active tool after the tray is collapsed.

Mobile navigation — 2D/3D and zoom controls now share a slim left navigator.

🔎 v3.5.85 — July 2026 ▶

Cleaned up older-user location display in Nursery.

Real locations only — broad climate labels like subtropical are no longer shown as signup locations.

Older users — Nursery still falls back to saved account weather labels or garden coordinates where they exist.

🔎 v3.5.84 — July 2026 ▶

Upgraded signup location entry to use worldwide live search.

Worldwide search — signup now narrows real location results as the user types.

Auto-fill — selected results fill country, state/region and postcode when available.

Editable fields — users can still correct or add location details manually.

🔎 v3.5.83 — July 2026 ▶

Added coarse signup location tracking for admin usage insight.

Signup location — new accounts now enter country, state/region and postcode.

Nursery visibility — admin user tables, exports and signup emails now include location where available.

🔎 v3.5.82 — July 2026 ▶

Cleaned up the Send an Idea form so it does not show personal email details.

Suggestion privacy — removed the optional reply-email field from Send an Idea.

Admin routing — suggestions continue to send to the admin suggestion inbox.

Saved first — ideas are still saved before admin email delivery is attempted.

🔎 v3.5.81 — July 2026 ▶

Added four public growing guides and polished the Suggest Feature menu item.

New guides — added sowing depth, soil pH, frost-hardy vegetable and shade-growing guides.

Data-backed tables — guide tables now draw from encyclopedia germination, pH, frost and sunlight data.

Cleaner menu — Suggest Feature now matches the rest of the hamburger menu instead of looking like a separate button.

🔎 v3.5.80 — July 2026 ▶

Expanded the public Guides section and moved guide content into a cleaner data structure.

More guides — added small-space gardening, succession sowing and watering guides.

Deeper guides — expanded the beginner, companion planting and easy high-yield vegetable guides.

Guide structure — guides now use reusable data files so future updates are easier to review and maintain.

🔎 v3.5.79 — July 2026 ▶

Merged technical SEO improvements for plant pages, guides and structured data.

Cleaner plant pages — transplant-grown crops no longer show misleading “Not suitable” sowing labels.

New guide — added a crop rotation guide generated from encyclopedia rotation data.

Better search markup — homepage search schema and the plant search URL now line up.

🌱 v3.5.78 — July 2026 ▶

Completed the plant encyclopedia visual and profile coverage pass.

2D icons complete — every encyclopedia plant now resolves to a deliberate icon mapping.

3D model coverage — the growth simulator now supports every plant model type used by the encyclopedia.

Profile audit — important crop families now have more specific water, fertilizer, garden-builder and cooking guidance.

💡 v3.5.77 — July 2026 ▶

Added admin suggestion tracking and tightened plant encyclopedia data ownership.

Suggestion inbox — feature ideas and plant requests are now saved for admin review before email alerts are sent.

Better plant source data — encyclopedia data now refreshes older plant fallbacks after loading.

Photo workflow — future plant photo sourcing now has a repeatable review and replacement process.

🎨 v3.5.76 — July 2026 ▶

Polished plant encyclopedia photos, icons and 3D growth visuals.

Complete photo coverage — every encyclopedia plant now has a local photo with Wikimedia Commons attribution metadata.

Visual profiles — every plant now carries icon and low-poly growth model metadata for future additions.

Better fallbacks — plants without hand-drawn SVGs now render Plotera-style generated crop icons instead of plain generic placeholders.

🍽️ v3.5.75 — July 2026 ▶

Expanded plant encyclopedia care data and garden-to-table ideas.

Cooking ideas — opened plant guides now include raw, cooked, preserve, edible-part and quick idea sections.

Care profiles — plants now carry structured water, fertilizer and auto garden builder profiles.

Smarter tools — watering, fertilising, companion checks and Auto Garden Builder now prefer enriched plant encyclopedia data.

💬 v3.5.74 — July 2026 ▶

Added easier ways to request features and new plants.

Suggest Feature — send a feature idea straight from the hamburger menu.

Plant requests — the Plant Encyclopedia has a plus button for requesting new plant additions.

Admin email — submitted ideas and plant requests are sent as branded admin emails.

🎮 v3.5.73 — July 2026 ▶

Polished custom icons and low-poly 3D plant silhouettes.

Custom icons — citrus, vines, berries, rosella, kang kong, pineapple, dragon fruit and papaya now have more distinct 2D artwork.

3D profiles — the growth simulator now uses different silhouettes for trees, vines, berry canes, runner crops, tropical fruit and upright flowers.

Plant guide photos — encyclopedia list views use icons for quick scanning; photos show after opening a plant guide.

Mobile friendly — the new models stay procedural and lightweight for Android garden viewing.

📷 v3.5.72 — July 2026 ▶

Added local photos to the plant encyclopedia.

Plant photos — 190 plant guides now include locally cached Wikimedia Commons photos with attribution.

Android friendly — photos are included in the deployed app and cached after first view in the installed web app.

Clean fallback — uncertain image matches keep using Plotera icons until we manually curate replacements.

📚 v3.5.71 — July 2026 ▶

Completed the remaining planned encyclopedia expansion.

214 plants — added the remaining planned batch across vegetables, herbs, flowers, citrus and starter orchard fruits.

Global mix — cool-climate crops, Asian greens, Mediterranean herbs, beneficial flowers and tropical fruit are better represented.

Search-ready — the sitemap now includes every public plant page.

📚 v3.5.70 — July 2026 ▶

Expanded the plant encyclopedia for more global growing styles.

153 plants — added more vegetables, Asian greens, herbs, flowers, citrus and starter fruit crops.

New gaps filled — Jalapeño, Kang Kong, Rosella, citrus, cool-climate fruits and beneficial flowers were included.

Garden-ready — the new plants became available from the garden plant picker for assigning to beds and zones.

🔎 v3.5.69 — July 2026 ▶

Plant page SEO, sitemap route fixes, and request parser security.

Plant pages — public plant detail URLs now return real pages for sitemap indexing, while missing plants return a proper 404.

Sitemap links — Privacy and Terms now resolve cleanly at their sitemap URLs.

Security — request body parsing now uses the patched body-parser release with startup validation for body-size limits.

🌱 v3.5.68 — July 2026 ▶

First-garden onboarding tip refresh.

First garden — the starter tip now matches the current Grid Toolbar, Lasso, Single, and ＋ Zone workflow.

Readability — dark-on-dark text in the first-garden tip modal was replaced with the current modal text colours.

🔔 v3.5.67 — July 2026 ▶

Signup alert toggle, Android gallery filters, splash polish, and Garden Tools labels.

Nursery alerts — the Statistics tab now has an on/off switch for admin emails when new accounts sign up.

Photo filters — Gallery filter buttons now keep the correct active state on Android Chrome and can tap back to All.

Garden Tools — duplicate Grid Toolbar action was removed; Grid is now Garden Settings, and PDF is now Print Garden Layout.

📷 v3.5.66 — July 2026 ▶

Reliable Android gallery photo sync.

Photo uploads — newly selected gallery photos are saved to the device first, then synced to the server as a small photo-only update.

Android recovery — if the installed app is suspended while photos are syncing, Plotera retries the pending photo batch when the app returns.

Large gardens — photo-heavy garden saves avoid mobile browser request limits that can drop oversized background saves.

🔍 v3.5.65 — July 2026 ▶

Garden pan buffer, simplified selectors, and clearer history controls.

Pan buffer — the 2D garden now has extra workspace around the bed so edge rows can be dragged away from the frame edge while zoomed in.

Simplified selectors — the old default Select tool was removed; use Single for tap selection or Lasso for drag selection.

Garden History — the bottom tool row now uses View Garden History; returning to the live garden happens from the history banner or modal.

🧩 v3.5.62 — July 2026 ▶

Auto Garden Builder grouped crop blocks.

Cleaner layouts — generated gardens now keep the same vegetable together where possible instead of placing small duplicate patches elsewhere in the bed.

Real garden shapes — crop placement now prefers rows, columns, and square-ish blocks, with tiny leftover cells absorbed into neighbouring zones.

💾 v3.5.61 — June 2026 ▶

Immediate save coverage for garden inputs.

Care logs — fertiliser, watering, water schedules, reminders, harvests, costs, nursery edits, seed profiles, and gallery uploads now trigger immediate server sync instead of waiting for a delayed full save.

Mobile safety — saved confirmations now appear after the immediate sync path has run, reducing data loss when Android backs out, suspends, or closes the installed app.

💾 v3.5.60 — June 2026 ▶

Immediate zone save reliability.

Zone saves — saving a zone now sends a focused server update immediately, so plant assignments survive Android back/app suspend instead of waiting for the full garden debounce.

Data protection — the server updates only the touched zone and its grid cells, preserving the rest of the user garden record.

🧭 v3.5.59 — June 2026 ▶

Auto Garden Builder path and crop-block refinement.

Paths — path options now clearly separate a single path across the bed, a single path along the bed, and a true cross path.

Crop blocks — generated plans now keep each crop together as one practical zone wherever possible, instead of scattering duplicate zones around the grid.

🧭 v3.5.58 — June 2026 ▶

Auto Garden Builder fill and crop-balance upgrade.

Full layouts — generated gardens now fill every usable non-path cell instead of stopping after a handful of suggested crops.

Crop balance — the builder caps quick crops and leafy repeats, accounts for rough spacing, avoids bad companions, and keeps adding sensible zones until the bed is filled.

🔔 v3.5.57 — June 2026 ▶

Real reminder delivery polish.

Server delivery — Plotera now checks due reminders every minute from the server, so Android/PWA push and email reminders do not depend on opening the app.

Email reminders — email notifications are tracked per reminder, so a new due reminder can still email later even if another reminder already sent today.

Push settings — notification category toggles are saved to the account, allowing the server to honour them while the app is closed.

🧭 v3.5.56 — June 2026 ▶

Menu consistency and scheduled email cleanup.

Garden Tools — New Garden and Auto Garden Builder now appear in the Garden Tools menu in both app navigation drawers.

Email reminders — opening the app no longer triggers automatic digest emails; scheduled reminder email checks run from the server.

🔔 v3.5.55 — June 2026 ▶

Reminder, calendar, notification centre, and push reliability overhaul.

Safer reminders — Plotera now protects To Do and nursery reminders during Android app switching, overlapping saves, email digest checks, and server push scans.

Consistent alerts — To Do / Reminders, calendar, notification centre, email digests, and server push now use the same reminder timing fields.

🌿 v3.5.54 — June 2026 ▶

Branded Android launch splash and restore repair.

Cleaner launch — Plotera now waits for the full app shell before restoring your last screen, while a branded splash stays visible during startup.

📊 v3.5.52 — June 2026 ▶

Added optional weekly Nursery admin usage digest emails.

Admin digest — Nursery can now send a Friday 8pm summary of users, activity, use time, garden feature usage, and top saved locations.

📱 v3.5.51 — June 2026 ▶

Android installed-app resume, pull-refresh, session length, and mobile sign-in polish.

Resume fix — the installed app restores the last stable dashboard or garden page instead of a partial back-button screen.

No pull refresh — top-edge Android pull-to-refresh is blocked inside Plotera so editing forms and garden layouts are harder to interrupt.

Longer sign-in — sessions now last longer by default and temporary server-check failures no longer sign you out.

Mobile verification — the human verification widget scales to fit smaller sign-in panels.

📱 v3.5.50 — June 2026 ▶

Repaired Android startup and Notification Centre navigation.

Reliable launch — the app now opens on the dashboard after a cold start rather than restoring a temporary screen. Notification Centre is directly under Home Dashboard in both menus.

🔔 v3.5.49 — June 2026 ▶

Notification Centre is now in the main app menu.

Cleaner navigation — Notification Centre now sits directly below Home Dashboard, and its page no longer shows the dashboard footer above your alerts.

🛡 v3.5.48 — June 2026 ▶

Safer data saves and new signup alerts.

Data protection — account-scoped local recovery copies and server-side collection merging reduce the chance of a suspended device overwriting to-dos or nursery data.

🔔 v3.5.47 — June 2026 ▶

Notification Centre and smoother Android app restore.

Alert management — hide, snooze, restore, and clear supported device-tray alerts from one place. Updated Android routing also avoids showing the website during app refresh.

📱 v3.5.46 — June 2026 ▶

More reliable Android app restore.

Installed app — Plotera now keeps standalone Android launches and offline recovery on the application route rather than showing the public website.

📚 v3.5.45 — June 2026 ▶

Help guide review.

Current guidance — refreshed Calendar, Watering, Fertiliser, Nursery, Photo Gallery, and Notifications help to match the latest features.

📅 v3.5.44 — June 2026 ▶

Interactive calendar day planning.

Day details — tap a date to see its garden activity and open linked watering, fertiliser, and reminder actions with that date preselected.

📷 v3.5.43 — June 2026 ▶

Batch photo uploads.

Gallery uploads — select multiple images from your phone at once. Plotera compresses and saves the whole batch using the same type and optional caption.

🌱 v3.5.42 — June 2026 ▶

Tray-wide nursery reminders.

Shared tray actions — set Water, Harden Off, Feed, or Plant into garden reminders for every seedling in a tray, with a date and time.

🔔 v3.5.41 — June 2026 ▶

Clearer Android notification branding.

Android badge — Plotera notifications now include a dedicated high-contrast badge for Android notification surfaces and device mirrors.

🔔 v3.5.40 — June 2026 ▶

True server push notifications.

Device registration — Notification Settings can now register a phone or browser for secure VAPID Web Push.

Closed-app delivery — subscribed devices can receive due reminders while Plotera is closed.

🛠 v3.5.39 — June 2026 ▶

Garden selection, reminder delivery, and Android reliability fixes.

Selection workflow — select existing zones or empty cells, then assign or erase the selection.

Timed reminders — tasks can now store a reminder time and repeating tasks retain that time.

Android saving — Plotera now keeps the newest local change if Android suspends the app before a server save completes.

📘 v3.5.38 — May 2026 ▶

Help guide updates for garden setup and advisor tools.

Advisors — added Help entries for the Watering Advisor and Fertilising Advisor.

Garden Builder — updated Help to explain manual garden setup and the Auto Garden Builder flow.

🌾 v3.5.37 — May 2026 ▶

3D Growth Simulator controls and help guide.

Growth Simulator toggle — the 3D garden now has a top-right control for virtual grow mode.

Help guide — added a new section explaining how the simulator uses planted date and days to harvest.

🌿 v3.5.36 — May 2026 ▶

Clearer 3D growth-stage labels.

Growth stages — the 3D garden now uses clearer labels from Just sown through Harvest ready and Finished crop.

3D summary — the garden viewport groups active zones by short stage names like Seedling, Growing, Flowering, Fruiting and Harvest.

🌱 v3.5.35 — May 2026 ▶

Email notification digests and notification audit.

Email reminders — users can turn on email notifications for due garden reminders.

Notification check — email digests and server push now run from Plotera's reminder service once enabled on a device.

🔐 v3.5.28 — May 2026 ▶

Forgot password and secure reset code flow.

Forgot password — users can request a reset code from the sign-in screen.

Safer reset — Plotera sends a short-lived 6-digit code instead of emailing temporary passwords.

✉️ v3.5.27 — May 2026 ▶

Branded signup and welcome emails.

Verification email — redesigned with Plotera colours, brand styling and a clear 6-digit code block.

Welcome email — redesigned to match the account verification experience after the user confirms their code.

✉️ v3.5.26 — May 2026 ▶

Extra SMTP diagnostics for verification email setup.

SMTP fingerprint — admin can confirm the app is reading the expected password value without exposing it.

Port checks — admin can test both 465 SSL and 587 STARTTLS from the Nursery System tab.

🛠️ v3.5.25 — May 2026 ▶

Admin release notes, signup email diagnostics and safer account creation.

Nursery release notes — admin now has a running version log of Plotera changes.

Email diagnostics — admin can check SMTP status and send a test email without creating a test account.

Signup protection — failed verification emails now roll back cleanly instead of leaving a half-created account.

Version fix — app, server package and service worker cache versions now align.

🚀 v3.5.24 — May 2026 ▶

Public website redesign, pricing tiers, bug fixes and Google Analytics.

New public website — completely redesigned homepage, features, pricing, about, FAQ, contact and demo pages.

Three pricing tiers — Free, Pro ($5.99/mo) and Advanced (TBC) now defined for launch planning.

Ambassador programme — digital ambassador programme launched for content creators and gardening influencers.

Demo page — interactive planting calendar and expanded plant encyclopedia now publicly browsable at plotera.app/demo.

Contact form — new contact page at plotera.app/contact. Email not shown publicly — contact via form only.

Page transitions — removed after testing because the body opacity approach could cause blank screens.

Google Analytics — GA4 tracking added across homepage, all public pages and the app.

SEO improvements — keyword-optimised titles, H1s, schema markup, og:tags and internal linking updated across all pages.

Bug fix — nav menu showing duplicate "Features" link resolved.

Bug fix — mobile floating bottom bar on homepage resolved.

Bug fix — footer links now centred on mobile.

🌿 v3.5.17 — May 2026 ▶

Pricing page, demo plant panel, contact form and nav consistency fixes.

Pricing page — three-tier pricing cards (Free / Pro / Advanced) with ambassador section.

Demo plant encyclopedia — emoji icons added, clicking a plant now opens a slide-up panel instead of loading a new page.

Contact page — email address removed from public page, contact by form only.

Nav consistency — homepage and all SEO pages now use identical nav markup and mobile menu.

Bug fix — duplicate route registrations in seo.js causing inconsistent page rendering resolved.

🛠️ v3.5.15–16 — May 2026 ▶

Homepage redesign, feature cards, botanical backgrounds and SEO foundations.

App/website split — public website (plotera.app) and logged-in app (/app) are now separate. The homepage is a full product marketing page.

Homepage — screenshot carousel, install badges, feature strip and 12 feature cards rebuilt from scratch.

Botanical backgrounds — vintage vegetable illustrations added as background decoration across public pages.

SEO pages — /features, /pricing, /about, /faq, /contact, /demo all built. robots.txt and sitemap.xml updated.

Launch banner — free-access messaging was added across homepage, features and pricing pages.

Login fix — returning users no longer prompted for email verification on sign in.

📋 Roadmap ▶

What's planned — no promises on timelines, but this is the direction.

Pro tier launch — watering wizard, fertilising wizard, full calendar, nursery, photos, harvest logs, notifications and reports behind Pro. Early users get a discount.

Advanced tier — AI plant health advisor, seed packet AI scanner, deeper 3D growth tools, soil/rain sensors.

Community platform — share tips, seed reviews and region-specific knowledge. Gardening community built into the app.

Ambassador programme — content creators and gardening influencers get Plotera free for life. Details at plotera.app/pricing.

Server push — VAPID Web Push can now send subscribed devices reminders even when Plotera is closed.

From Soil to Harvest —Plan Your Best Garden Yet

From Soil to Harvest —
Plan Your Best Garden Yet