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Plumeria AI
Ask anything about growing plumeria — or send a photo and get a straight answer about what is wrong with your plant. Built by a family who has grown Hawaiian plumeria since 1995, and who would rather tell you your cutting is fine than sell you something.
Or just start asking below — sign-in is only needed to save things.
Ask Lani
Aloha! I'm Lani, the Plumeria AI from the family behind Just Plumerias. Ask me anything about growing plumerias — or send a photo of your plant and I'll take a look.
Lani is an AI and can be wrong — questions are logged to improve answers. Privacy
Quick answer
Plumeria AI is a free assistant that answers plumeria growing questions and diagnoses plant photos. It is grounded in the growing notes of the Just Plumerias family, who have grown Hawaiian plumeria since 1995. Signing in with Google lets it use your hardiness zone and local weather, and saves your plants and past diagnoses.
- ✓Free to use, and no account is required to ask a question or send a photo.
- ✓Reads photos of stems, leaves and roots — and always asks you to squeeze the stem before calling one healthy.
- ✓Signed-in growers get advice matched to their USDA zone, this week's low, recent rain, and how high the sun gets.
- ✓Hands you to a real family member for order problems and the three-month rooting guarantee.
- ✓Will say "I don't know" rather than invent a variety name or a statistic.
What can Plumeria AI do?
Reads a photo of your plant
Send a picture and Lani describes what she actually sees — stem colour and firmness, leaf condition, soil, container — then names the most likely cause and the one thing to do next. She will never call a stem healthy from a photo alone, because a rotting cutting can photograph fine.
Knows your weather, not the average
Once you sign in, Lani answers against your actual conditions: your hardiness zone, this week's low, how much rain has fallen, and how high the sun climbs where you are. "Should I water?" gets a different answer in a wet Florida August than a dry Texas October.
Coaches a cutting through rooting
Rooting is four to eight warm weeks of looking like nothing is happening. Lani walks the timeline with you week by week, tells you which signals matter (firmness, not leaves), and says plainly when slow is normal — which is most of the time.
Answers from how we actually grow
Lani is grounded in our own growing notes — the methods, mixes and varieties this family has used since 1995 — not scraped from whatever ranked highest that week. When she does not know, she says so instead of inventing a cultivar.
How is this different from asking a general AI?
A general chatbot has read the whole internet about plumeria, including the wrong parts — and it has no idea where you live. The difference is not intelligence, it is grounding.
| Plumeria AI | A general chatbot | |
|---|---|---|
| Source of answers | One family's growing notes since 1995 | Everything ever written, good and bad |
| Knows your climate | Your zone, weather and sun angle | Only if you type it in every time |
| Photo diagnosis | Describes what it sees, then the next step | Often confident and wrong |
| Remembers your plants | Yes, once you sign in | No |
| When it is unsure | Says so | Frequently invents a cultivar |
| Order or guarantee help | Hands you to a real person | Cannot |
What you get when you sign in
Signing in with Google takes one tap and costs nothing. It exists for one reason: a plant is a thing that changes over months, and advice is better when it can see the last three months instead of only this photograph.
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My Plants
Every plumeria you own, with its variety, where it grows, and what stage it is at.
- history
Diagnosis history
Each photo you send is kept with its verdict and date, so decline or recovery is visible over weeks — not re-guessed from scratch each time.
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Saved conversations
Your threads follow you between phone and laptop, and Lani remembers your zone and your plants.
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Rooting Journey
A weekly check-in through the first twelve weeks, built around the squeeze test that actually predicts survival.
Start your garden
Add your first plumeria and Lani will remember it — variety, stage, and every photo you have ever sent her about it.
Sign in with GoogleHow it works, honestly
Lani runs on an open vision-language model hosted at the edge, with two things layered on top. First, retrieval: every question is matched against this family's own written growing knowledge, and those passages go to the model with your question, so answers come from how we actually grow rather than from the model's general memory. Second, context: if you are signed in, your location, current weather, sun angle and plant list go in too.
Some answers never reach the model at all. Anything that looks like an order problem, a replacement request, or a question about the rooting guarantee is handed straight to a real family member instead of guessed at — because a chatbot should not be the thing standing between you and a person when your plant arrived damaged.
And the limits are real. It cannot reliably name a cultivar from a flower photo. It cannot see root rot below the soil line. It does not know your order history. When one of those comes up, it should tell you so — if it ever does otherwise, that is a bug we want to hear about.
Frequently asked questions
Is Plumeria AI free?
Yes. You can ask questions and send photos without an account. Signing in with Google is also free — it exists so your plants, your diagnosis history and your local conditions are saved between visits.
Can it tell if my plumeria cutting is rotting?
It can tell you what the photo shows and what it most likely means, and it will flag black, soft or wrinkled tissue as urgent. It will always ask you to squeeze the stem before calling anything healthy, because firmness is the signal a photograph cannot capture and a soft stem is the failure that costs people their plant.
How does it know my weather and hardiness zone?
Your approximate location comes from the edge of the network your request arrives on — city level, no browser permission prompt. Your USDA zone is then calculated from the coldest temperature recorded in each of the last several winters at that spot, rather than looked up by state, which is wrong for anyone near a coast, a lake, or elevation.
Is it as good as asking a person?
No, and it does not pretend to be. It is fast, available at midnight, and grounded in three decades of one family's growing notes. For an order problem, a replacement, or anything involving the three-month rooting guarantee, it hands you straight to a real person at [email protected].
What does it do with my photos?
A photo you send anonymously is used to answer that question and is not attached to any account. If you are signed in and choose to save a diagnosis to one of your plants, the AI's written verdict is stored on that plant's timeline so you can compare it against later check-ins.
What can it not do?
It cannot identify a variety from a photo with confidence — plumeria cultivars are genuinely hard to tell apart from flowers alone, and anyone claiming otherwise is guessing. It has no access to your order history, and it will not give advice outside plumeria growing.