Phase Checklists & Grow Lessons
Every plant shows a checklist and a short written lesson matched to its current phase — seedling, vegetative, flowering, or finish — both static, free content, distinct from the daily Today-screen task list and from the paid Grow Coach retrospective.
How to do this in GrowScope
- Open a plant's page — its checklist and lesson automatically match its current phase.
- Check off checklist items as you complete them; each is saved per plant with a timestamp.
- Read the phase lesson's intro and tips for context on what matters at this stage.
- As the plant's phase changes, both the checklist and the lesson update to match.
Phase checklist
- Category
- Notifications & reminders
- Purpose
- Show a checklist of grow-technique items relevant to the plant's current phase, with completion tracked per plant.
- Input
- None to enter — matched automatically to the plant's current phase
- Location
- Plant detail page, "Phase checklist" collapsible panel
- User action
- Check off items as completed
- Output
- 19 static checklist items across 4 phases (seedling: 4, vegetative: 5, flowering: 5, finish: 5), with per-plant, timestamped completion.
- Used by
- None
- Related
- Notifications
- Availability
- Free, no plan restriction
Phase lesson
- Category
- Notifications & reminders
- Purpose
- Show a short written lesson explaining what matters at the plant's current growth phase.
- Input
- None to enter — matched automatically to the plant's current phase
- Location
- Plant detail page, "Phase lesson" collapsible panel, directly below the phase checklist
- User action
- Read — no input required
- Output
- 4 static lessons (one per phase), each with an intro paragraph and specific tips — not AI-generated.
- Used by
- None
- Related
- Grow Coach
- Availability
- Free, no plan restriction, no AI credits
Notes
- Both are static, hand-authored content — not personalized to a specific plant's strain or sensor data, and not AI-generated.
- Neither is the same as the Today-screen daily task list (a stateless function of actual logged data), and neither is the same as Grow Coach (a paid, AI-generated retrospective comparing a finished cycle to past cycles) — these are forward-looking, phase-based guidance shown on the plant's own page.
- The "finish" phase covers harvest-prep through drying and curing content, rather than having separate phases for each.
Frequently asked questions
Is the phase checklist the same as the Today screen's daily tasks?
No — daily tasks are generated from actual logged data (did you log a climate reading today, water today, etc.). Phase checklists are static grow-technique guidance tied to the plant's overall stage.
Is the phase lesson the same as Grow Coach?
No. Grow Coach is a paid, AI-generated report comparing a just-finished cycle to your own past cycles. Phase lessons are free, static, hand-written content about the plant's current phase — not AI-generated and not about past cycles.
Are checklist items or lessons personalized to my strain?
No — both are the same content for every plant in a given phase, not generated from plant-specific data.