Journal

The journal is where you record observations about your organisms over time. Every journal entry is linked to a specific entity and captures what you noticed, when you noticed it, and any relevant growing conditions.

Journal entries build a timeline for each organism — flowering dates, fruiting observations, disease issues, and general notes. Over time, this data becomes valuable for understanding how an organism performs across seasons.

Journal entries are public by default, so other growers can learn from your observations. You can mark individual entries as private if you prefer.

Navigate to the Journal page in your dashboard sidebar. Select the entity you want to write about from the dropdown at the top.

Each entry has a type that categorizes the observation: planting, flowering, fruiting, disease, cold damage, death, watering, pruning, general, or other.

Set the observation date — this defaults to today but you can backdate entries if you are catching up on notes.

Add notes describing what you observed. You can also add photos to document the observation visually.

Some entry types show additional fields for structured data like sun exposure, soil type, container, temperature, or cause (for disease and death entries). These are optional but help build a richer record.

Your journal page shows all entries in a timeline view. Each entry displays the entity it belongs to, the observation type, date, notes, and any photos.

You can filter entries by entity using the dropdown at the top of the page. This lets you see the full history for a specific organism.

You can edit or delete any of your own journal entries at any time.