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Browse guides on scanning plants, tracking health over time, managing your subscription, and getting the most accurate diagnoses from GrowPilot.
Getting Started
Set up your GrowPilot account, run your first scan, and learn what each tier unlocks.
What is GrowPilot?
GrowPilot is an AI plant health assistant that diagnoses diseases, disorders, and nutrient issues from a single photo and your growing environment.
Updated April 2026
How to run your first scan
Step-by-step guide to scanning a plant for the first time on GrowPilot.
Updated April 2026
Basic vs Grower vs Cultivator: which plan is right for you?
Compare GrowPilot's three tiers, features, scan limits, and who each is built for.
Updated April 2026
Using GrowPilot
Get the most out of scans, plant tracking, and the AI assistant.
How to improve scan accuracy
Tips for taking better photos and providing environmental data so the AI gives sharper diagnoses.
Updated April 2026
Tracking a plant's health over time
Use the plant timeline to compare scans and confirm treatment is working.
Updated April 2026
Saving and managing your plant collection
How plant slots, tier limits, the plant detail page, and deletion work, everything you need to know about your saved-plant collection.
5 min readUpdated May 2026
How does Compare work?
Compare two scans of the same plant side-by-side to see whether a treatment is working. Available on Grower and Cultivator. Here's how to use it.
4 min readUpdated May 2026
Using the Calendar to track plant activity
The Calendar is a month grid showing every scan, reminder, note, and harvest at a glance. Here's how to read it, click into days, and add things inline.
4 min readUpdated May 2026
Setting up care reminders
Schedule water, fertilize, prune, repot, and other care tasks. Recurring or one-off. GrowPilot emails and pushes you when they come due.
6 min readUpdated May 2026
Adding notes to plants
Notes are short journal entries attached to a plant. Use them to log treatments, observations, and milestones so you have a record next time you scan.
3 min readUpdated May 2026
Multi-photo scanning (Cultivator)
Add up to 4 additional photos to a scan to give the AI more angles. Significantly improves confidence on ambiguous cases. Cultivator tier only.
4 min readUpdated May 2026
Generating PDF reports
One-click printable PDFs of any plant's full history, scans, diagnoses, treatments, notes. Useful for vet/expert consults and sharing.
3 min readUpdated May 2026
Tagging plants and tracking growth stages
Organize plants with custom tags (variety, source, treatment status) and label their lifecycle stage. Filter, group, and identify plants at a glance.
4 min readUpdated May 2026
Tracking batches (Cultivator)
Group plants into batches for commercial cultivation. Track yields per batch, compare runs over time, and let the AI surface batch-level patterns.
5 min readUpdated May 2026
Anomaly detection (Cultivator)
GrowPilot watches for declining-health trends across your plants and batches and surfaces them on the dashboard. Catches systemic issues before they spread.
4 min readUpdated May 2026
Account & Billing
Manage your subscription, change plans, update payment methods, and export or delete your data.
How to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel your subscription
Walk through changing plans through the Stripe Customer Portal in under 30 seconds.
Updated April 2026
Exporting your data (JSON & CSV)
Download a complete copy of your plants, scans, and care reminders in one click. Useful for backups, spreadsheets, and GDPR/CCPA data-portability requests.
4 min readUpdated May 2026
Notification preferences
Choose which events GrowPilot can email or push to you, care reminders, anomaly alerts, harvest reminders, and product updates. Each toggle controls both channels.
3 min readUpdated May 2026
How to delete your account
Remove your GrowPilot account and all personal data. Required by GDPR and CCPA.
Updated April 2026
Troubleshooting
Common issues and how to fix them.
Diagnosing Plant Problems
Long-form guides on common plant ailments, yellow leaves, mildew, nutrient deficiencies, wilting, and more. Written so you can act with confidence.
Yellow leaves on plants: 7 causes and how to tell them apart
Yellow leaves usually mean one of seven things. Here's how to identify the cause, overwatering, nitrogen deficiency, root rot, light burn, and four more, and exactly what to do next.
9 min readUpdated May 2026
Powdery mildew: identification, treatment, and prevention
Powdery mildew looks like flour dusted on your leaves. It's one of the most common fungal infections and one of the most beatable, if you catch it early. Here's how to identify it, kill it, and stop it coming back.
8 min readUpdated May 2026
How to spot nutrient deficiencies from leaf symptoms
A field guide to reading nutrient deficiencies from leaf color, pattern, and location. Covers nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and the rest, and how to fix each one.
10 min readUpdated May 2026
Why is my plant wilting? A diagnostic checklist
Wilting has 6 main causes, and 4 of them aren't lack of water. Walk through this checklist to figure out which one you're dealing with and what to do today.
7 min readUpdated May 2026
How to take great plant photos for AI diagnosis
The accuracy of an AI plant diagnosis is downstream of your photo quality. Six rules that make every scan more confident, and how to compose photos for the model's strengths.
6 min readUpdated May 2026
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