About Plantive

What we are trying to do

Watering and light are two common sources of houseplant problems. Both are easier to assess when you know what the plant is and can compare its conditions with species-specific guidance.

That is the gap Plantive is built for. Identification on its own is a novelty. Identification that leads straight to this species wants its top two inches dry, and it needs to be within six feet of that window is genuinely useful.

How these guides are made

Plantive maintains the guides and is adding visible horticultural and botanical references to the pages where they are most useful. We aim for practical checks rather than false certainty:

• Conditions before calendars. Check the potting mix, light, season and plant response before treating a watering interval as a rule.
• Honest difficulty. We call fiddle leaf figs and calatheas demanding, because they are, rather than describing everything as easy.
• Symptom-first troubleshooting. Use observable signs to narrow the causes, and keep the diagnosis tentative when several causes look alike.
• Transparent update dates. You can see when a guide was published and when its content was last changed.

Where advice is genuinely contested, we say so. Where a popular claim does not hold up (that snake plants meaningfully purify the air in a real room, or that misting fixes humidity), we say that too.

Toxicity and safety

We include toxicity information on every plant guide because it matters in homes with pets and children. It is general guidance, not veterinary advice.

If an animal or child has eaten part of a plant, contact a vet or poison control line immediately. Do not spend time identifying the plant first. Bring it with you or send a photo, and let them identify it while treatment begins.

The app

Plantive: Identify & Care is free to download and requires iOS 17.0 or later. Optional Pro subscriptions and lifetime purchases are available in the app; current terms and prices are shown on the App Store listing.

Subscriptions and refunds are handled by Apple. To cancel, open Settings on your iPhone, tap your name, then Subscriptions. For refunds, visit reportaproblem.apple.com.

Contact

Corrections, questions and feedback are all welcome at contact@deductify.org. If you spot something wrong in a care guide, please tell us. We would rather fix it than have it sit there.

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