Soil Moisture Meter, 4-in-1 Moisture Meter for Plants, Tester for Moist, Light,Nutrients, pH, Soil Test Kit, Great for Garden, Lawn, Farm, Indoor & Outdoor Use, No Battery Required

Works fine, I did not know my ph was that low. Thank you.

Easy to use, no batteries to replace. Head tilts for easy reading.

Arrived on time, securely packaged, and in excellent condition.

The Raintrip soul tester is durable, accurate and relatively easy to use. This meter reads light, moisture, nutrients, and pH in the soil allowing you to keep your plants healthy and happy. The display is clear and easy to read and the head swivels so it is easy to get an accurate reading on any size plant from any angle. The slide button on the front is a little hard to see which mode you are in, light, moisture etc. so that’s why I only give it 4 stars. Other than that it is an all around good soil tester.

I have not found this product to be accurate especially for moisture. I was hoping to avoid over watering and under watering my plant by using this meter as well as keeping the pH in check. But from the appearance of the plant, it is not working. Even after watering, the meter shoes the plant in the dry zone. Though the plant was a gift and started out healthy, I will allow for the possibility that it could be just the plant itself that is the problem. I do like that the meter head tilts making it easier to read.

The soil tester is easy to use and clean, and provides a lot of information. The long stem allows me to check moisture and nutrition content at the important depths (1”, 3”, and 5”).
You will want to look at the switch settings before putting it in the ground as they are difficult to read and align.

Buy if you want to know if you need to fertilize or avoid over/under watering your flowers, plants, or vegetables

UPDATE: The pH metering stopping giving me readings. I used in the Fall and it stopped working in Spring. I sanded it per instructions but didn’t help. Customer service quickly got back to me and sent a replacement with some extra hints.

I think I might have messed it up because you are only supposed to lightly sand the lowest piece of the probe – the tip – but I had lightly sanded the length of the probe. The extra instructions they sent said this – so save your sandpaper and don’t overdo it like me and you should be able to enjoy using it for multiple seasons.

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The meter does produce different results for different soils around the yard. I mainly wanted the pH part, the other stuff isn’t super necessary for my needs but interesting nonetheless. The pH seems like it could be pretty correct as it does adjust slightly for soils I know are more acidic (due to the type of fertilizers I use.) My problem is that the range of pH anyone really needs for soil is liberally only between 4.5 – 8.5. If you have soil below or above these it really doesn’t matter how much since it is so far off the chart of what is needed for anything other than highly specialized growing media. And if you were doing that you would have more sophisticated equipment.

So the entire range of what I care about takes up very little space between 1 and 8 since everything I have is between 5.5 and 7.0 pH. It’s impossible to see at this scale if you are at 5.8 or 6.2 or what. You just have a rough approximation that it is about 6 which isn’t super helpful. Every 0.1 change in pH represents a 26% difference in acidity or alkalinity of the soil. This instrument should be fine tuned for a smaller range of the pH scale showing at least .5 unit steps.

An annoyance is that the needle at rest, in no soil medium, is pretty much right over the 6.5/7 pH scale. So if you insert the probe into soil that is 6.5 the needle doesn’t move causing you to think it doesn’t work. Every time this happened to me I flipped the switch around and would see the needle react very quickly and so I know it was functioning but the resting needle should really have its own place as is the standard on almost every other instrument you can find.

The probe itself seems well constructed. I pushed it deep into the ground and was able to pull it out pretty easily. I think if you put too much pressure on the meter head while pushing it in you might break it though. The box comes with a little square of sand paper you should not throw away. Eventually the probe will lose its measuring abilities from a little corrosion build up on the metal. A light sanding would refresh it.