Cheap Water Meter Rip Off

 
 
 
 

This is the reason this blog was formed. I received this plant water meter today ordered through ebay; put it in a jar of water and the meter doesn't move. Tried it in many different plants around the house and it doesn't work. Brand new and a complete rip off.

In talking with a couple of professionals that suggest buying water meters, I got an honest answer from www.diylawntime.blogspot.com about how these meters often fail. Ted said that the problem is there really isn't an in-between, you have these cheap meters then really expensive meters. But if you don't use a meter you are just guessing. So he suggest buying two and testing them against each other and as I did, in plants you know are wet and those you know are dry, to make sure it is working.

He also said that the ph meters on a lot of these really are not accurate enough to trust when testing your soil ph. That you should take random samples from the plant root area and have them tested by a laboratory.

So I guess we have to do the best we can with what we buy from china with these because I'm not willing to pay $65 or even a hundred dollars for a high end unit, but I want to know how the water is doing around my plants. The one Ted has on his site has a lot of good reviews from Amazon and a supplier that replaces bad ones quickly is why he recommends them.

It still beats sticking your finger in the soil and guessing.