GrowChronicle™

Help & guide

What everything does, why it's there, and how to get common things done.

GrowChronicle keeps a private, on-device journal of your grows — feeds, readings, photos, gear and stock. Tap any area below to learn what it does and why, or jump straight to it.

Quick start

Five steps from empty app to a running grow journal.

  1. Create your first grow Open Grows and tap New grow: name it, pick the medium, add plants & pots, set the light schedule and tick the growth stages.
  2. Log your first feed Tap the + button. Start from a preset if you like, set the water quantity, adjust the mix and save. That's the journal started.
  3. Set up a feeding program Open Schedule and tap New program to plan feeds over time, then assign it to your grow. Upcoming feeds appear on Home under 'Up next'.
  4. Stock your Shelf Add your nutrients and additives with stock level and dose per litre. Feeds draw down stock automatically and warn you when something runs low.
  5. Add your gear Open My gear and add your tent, light, fan and the rest. Record it once — you can drop it into any grow's setup later.

How to…

Start a new grow

  1. Open Grows and tap Add.
  2. Name it and set the medium, plant count and pot sizes.
  3. Pick the plant type (photoperiod / day-neutral) — the stages tick to match.
  4. Tick the stages it goes through and choose a feed preset for each.
  5. Add any setup & gear, then Save.

Log a feed

  1. Tap the + button — or Log a feed on Home.
  2. Optionally pick a preset under 'Start from a preset' to fill the mix.
  3. Set the water quantity and any source-water readings.
  4. Adjust the nutrient mix and final measurements; add photos if you like.
  5. Tap Save — it lands in History, the Timeline, and draws down Shelf stock.

Save a feed as a preset

  1. While logging a feed, use 'Save as preset', or open Presets and tap New.
  2. Give it a name, stage and plant type.
  3. Tweak the nutrients, source-water readings and measurements.
  4. Save — it now appears for matching grows and stages.

Track your gear

  1. Open My gear and tap Add (tent, light, fan, AC…).
  2. Or, inside a grow's Setup & environment, tap the bookmark on a field to save it.
  3. Next grow: open 'My gear' in the setup section and tap an item to drop it in.

Set up a feeding program

  1. Open Schedule and tap New program.
  2. Add steps: a feed name plus a day or week — or make it recurring with 'Every (days)', or pin an exact date.
  3. Pick what each step counts from: the grow's start, or the start of its stage (so bloom week 1 begins at the flip). 'Apply to all' copies the choice to the whole stage.
  4. Assign it from the program's card, or in the grow's editor under Stages & feeding → 'Feeding program'. Picking a stage preset that belongs to a program also offers to assign the whole program.
  5. Upcoming feeds now show in Schedule and on Home under 'Up next'; stage-based steps appear once the grow reaches that stage.
  6. When one is due, tap Log — the feed opens prefilled. The + button also follows the program: it prefills the current step's mix automatically, so there's no need to switch presets by hand.

Where the quick log mix comes from

  1. Tap + and the mix arrives prefilled — quick log picks the source for you, always in the same order.
  2. First: a feed scheduled for today for this grow. Logging it also ticks it off the schedule.
  3. Otherwise: the current step of the grow's assigned feeding program — the note names the program and the step.
  4. Otherwise: the feed preset chosen for the grow's current stage (grow editor → Stages & feeding).
  5. No match — the form starts blank. The note under the header always says which source was used; the (i) next to the title explains this order on the spot.
  6. Edits in the quick log change that one feed only — the preset and the program are never modified.

Track a dry and cure

  1. Complete the grow and choose 'Dry & cure' — the harvest summary shows the guide for that crop.
  2. Tap 'Mark as jarred' the day it goes into jars. Drying steps count from the harvest date, curing steps from this one.
  3. Pick a cure plan for dated steps you can tick off. Five come built in, one per crop; steps that count from jarring wait under 'Starts when you jar' until you do.
  4. A curing grow gets its own card on Home — the day count, what's next, and a tick to mark it done.
  5. Use 'Edit cure plan' to make your own copy of a built-in plan, or 'New cure plan' to start from scratch.
  6. Tap 'Cure complete' when it's ready and record the final dry weight.
  7. Cure tracking is part of Pro — the drying and curing guide itself stays free.

Watch jar humidity while curing

  1. Open the grow's harvest summary — 'View summary' on the harvested grow's card, or its card on Home.
  2. Under 'Cure tracking', find 'Jar readings' and put in what the hygrometer in the jar reads, in percent.
  3. Add the jar's temperature as well if you measure it, plus a note if you want, then tap 'Log jar check'.
  4. Every check is listed with its date, and anything outside 55–62% is flagged as out of range.
  5. Too high means moisture is still coming out of the crop: burp the jars for longer, or more often.
  6. Too low means it dried too far — the cure has stopped, so seal the jars and leave them alone.
  7. Logging jar checks and being warned about them is part of Pro. The 55–62% band is printed in the drying guide for everyone — on the free plan, read the hygrometer and judge it yourself.
  8. Want a different band? Edit grow → Warnings, add a rule on 'Jar RH', and your own range takes over.

Turn on reminders

  1. Open Settings → Notifications and switch on 'Enable reminders' (allow notifications when asked).
  2. Pick a reminder time that suits your routine — reminders arrive around then, not to the minute, so your phone can save battery.
  3. Choose what to be reminded about: upcoming feeds, stage changes, meter calibration and cure steps.
  4. On the free plan upcoming feeds arrive as one daily digest; Pro adds a reminder per event and the other categories.
  5. Add custom one-off reminders with a note and a date (e.g. 'Check trichomes').
  6. Reminders are scheduled on this device only — no account, no server.

Choose Simple or Full tracking

  1. Pick your style on the welcome screen, or any time in Settings → Detail level.
  2. Simple keeps logging light: quick log asks just water and notes, and new grows skip the auto feed presets.
  3. In the grow editor, Simple folds the advanced sections — tap one to open it, and the (i) explains what's inside.
  4. Full shows everything: readings, presets, programs and gear, all up front.
  5. Switch whenever you like — it changes what's shown, never your data; anything you've set stays.

Complete a grow (harvest)

  1. On the grow's card, open the … menu and tap 'Complete grow'.
  2. Enter the harvest date, yield and any harvest notes.
  3. Weigh it now and put that in 'Wet weight' — it's the only moment you can. Add the dry weight to Yield later with 'Edit harvest', and the summary works out the dry-down.
  4. Choose what you'll do with the harvest — dry & cure, dry with no cure, use fresh, preserve, or decide later. It starts on the choice that suits your crop, and 'Dry & cure' also asks for the closest crop guide.
  5. Tap 'Complete grow' — days, feeds, total water, average EC/pH, plus guidance matched to your plan.
  6. Share the summary if you like; the grow moves to the Harvested section. You can change the plan later from the summary.

Track variety success

  1. Open Varieties and tap 'Add variety' — name, breeder, type and seed counts (remaining, sown, germinated).
  2. Start grows from a variety, and its track record fills in by itself.
  3. Check the success and germination rates once grows finish.
  4. Tap 'Start a new grow' on a proven variety to start the next round.

Pick or build calculators (Tools)

  1. Open Tools — tap Open on the Tools area above, or the Tools link next to the tool cards on Home.
  2. Switch on the ready-made calculators you want. Per-feed ones show while logging and on Home; per-grow ones add up in Grow totals.
  3. Want your own maths? Tap 'Advanced: custom formula'.
  4. Name it and write the formula — a small expression like round(waterQtyLiters / plantQty, 2). The variables you can use are listed right below.
  5. Add a display unit label if you like, then tap 'Save calculator' — it joins your picked list.

Back up or move your data

  1. Open Settings and find the Data section.
  2. Tap Export backup and tick which categories to include.
  3. To restore, tap Import backup, pick the file, and choose what to bring in.
  4. Everything is stored on this device — back up regularly.

What each area does

Home (Dashboard)

What: Your active grow at a glance — current stage, latest feed, water and readings, plus any warnings.

Why: A quick daily check-in so you know what's going on without digging.

Grows

What: Create and manage each grow: plants, medium, light schedule, growth stages, feed presets per stage, and your setup & gear.

Why: Everything in the app is organized per grow, so this is your home base.

Logging a feed

What: Record a watering or feed — water volume, source-water readings, the nutrient mix, final measurements and photos.

Why: Builds your feed history, powers the charts and draws down Shelf stock as you use it.

Presets

What: Saved feed recipes, tagged by stage (Seed/Veg/Bloom) and plant type (photo/auto/clone). Presets that belong to a feeding program are grouped under it (in step order); your own presets sit below, and a search box finds any preset or nutrient by name.

Why: Log a repeat feed in one tap and keep your mixes consistent across feeds and grows.

Shelf

What: Your consumables inventory — nutrients and additives with stock level, price and dose per litre.

Why: Tracks what you actually have and warns you when something's low, out or expiring.

My gear

What: Equipment that doesn't fit the Shelf — tents, lights, fans, AC, dehumidifiers, controllers.

Why: Record your kit once and drop it into any grow's setup instead of retyping it.

Varieties

What: Your variety library — breeder, type, seeds left, notes and photos.

Why: Reuse a variety across grows and start the next round straight from a variety with 'Start a new grow'.

Schedule

What: Feeding programs (a sequence of feeds over time) you can attach to a grow.

Why: Plan feeds ahead and see what's coming up next.

Timeline

What: A visual history of a grow's feeds, photos and milestones.

Why: See how a grow progressed at a glance.

Analytics

What: Charts of your readings (EC, pH, temperature…) over time.

Why: Spot trends early — EC creeping up, pH drifting — before they become problems.

History

What: A flat, searchable list of every feed you've logged.

Why: Find and review any past feed quickly.

Tools

What: Quick calculators like feed-per-plant and nutrient strength.

Why: Do the grow maths without leaving the app.

Settings

What: Units, theme, per-grow warnings, the Data section for backup, selective import and restore, and About — app version and support contact.

Why: Make the app yours and keep your data safe.

Contact & support

Support is in English. Write in your own language if you prefer — we'll translate it and reply in English.

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