Know What Your Plants Need Before They Show It

Growers — from backyard gardeners to multi-zone vertical farm operators — now have a single platform to monitor every growing zone, track every plant from seed to harvest, and receive alerts before conditions turn harmful. Plant Caravan Cloud is available at plantcaravan.com/dashboard.

The problem

Growers lose plants to problems they could have prevented. A late frost kills seedlings that were ready to go outside. Soil dries out over a long weekend. Humidity climbs in a grow tent and nobody notices until mold appears. The information to prevent these failures exists, but it is scattered across weather apps, gardening forums, seed packets, and years of personal experience. There is no single place that connects a grower's physical space, their plants, and the conditions those plants need to thrive.

The solution

Plant Caravan Cloud gives growers a unified view of their entire growing operation. Sign in at plantcaravan.com/dashboard, define your locations and zones, and connect your ESP32 sensors. The platform cross-references live sensor readings with weather forecasts and each plant's known requirements. When conditions fall outside safe ranges, you receive an alert with specific guidance: move seedlings indoors, increase ventilation, or water a dry bed.

Plant lifecycles are tracked automatically. The dashboard shows each plant's current stage — seed, germinating, seedling, vegetative, flowering, fruiting, harvesting, or dormant — and provides timing guidance for the next transition based on actual zone conditions, not generic calendars.

Zones can be nested to match any physical layout: a shelf inside a room, a tray inside a rack, a bed inside a greenhouse. Each zone tracks its environment type — indoor, outdoor, greenhouse, or controlled — so recommendations stay relevant to what is actually growing there.

For growers who prefer full control, Plant Caravan is self-hostable. The open-source @plantcaravan/platform package runs on a single SQLite database with no cloud account required.

What growers are saying

"I lost a whole flat of tomato seedlings to a frost I knew was coming — I just forgot to check the forecast that day. Now I get a push notification the evening before any frost risk in my outdoor beds. That one alert is worth the whole platform."

— Maya T., kitchen garden grower, Portland

Key features

• Location and zone modeling — Define locations with GPS coordinates and timezone, then organize zones in a hierarchy that matches your physical space
• Real-time sensor monitoring — Connect ESP32 sensors to track temperature, humidity, soil moisture, and light with online/offline status visibility
• Plant lifecycle tracking — Follow every plant from seed to harvest with stage-aware recommendations
• Weather-aware alerts — Receive warnings when forecasts or sensor readings threaten your plants
• Personalized recommendations — Get planting guidance tuned to your zone conditions and season
• Self-hostable — Run the platform on your own infrastructure using the open-source @plantcaravan/platform package with SQLite

Get started

Sign in at plantcaravan.com/dashboard with your Google account to start mapping your growing operation. Add your first location, define your zones, and connect your sensors. The platform is free during the early access period.

Self-hosters can install the @plantcaravan/platform package and run against a local SQLite database with full feature parity.