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Plumstone introduces SunStick Home; SunStick recommended by Good Housekeeping Research Institute (back)
11/17/2008
New Gardening Tool, SunStick Home, Makes Light
of Growing Healthy House Plants
Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 17, 2008--- Rather than guessing the optimal location for house plants to flourish, use SunStick Home, a new garden tool, to detect the light intensity indoors within minutes.
“In order to grow beautiful houseplants, you really need to know how many foot candles of light your plant will receive inside your home,” says Kerry VerMeulen, Co-owner of Plumstone, LLC, makers of SunStick (which measures sunlight outdoors) and SunStick Home. “SunStick Home answers that essential question quickly and accurately.”
This patented new tool resembles a faux flower top and reads or measures the light in its immediate area while sitting as pretty as a flower. Place SunStick Home atop a houseplant in the desired location of the home, such as on a table in the living room, and watch the color transformation. Within 20 minutes, the light sensitive flower top changes color and indicates a light reading based on its accompanying color chart.
When using SunStick Home, follow these steps for best results:
• If there is a window in the room, make sure the sun is not behind a cloud, even if it doesn’t shine directly on the plant or in the window.
• Set SunStick Home right on top of the plant. If a plant isn’t selected yet, use stacked books or an upside down vase to get SunStick Home at the approximate plant height.
• If the room’s light varies greatly throughout the day, do two tests at the two greatest variations (i.e. most light and most dim) and average the two readings.
The most important environmental factor in growing plants indoors is adequate light. Light provides the energy source needed for plants to manufacture food and indoor plants differ greatly in their light intensity requirements. Garden experts classify houseplants into one of three categories: low light intensity (75 to 150 foot-candles), medium light intensity (150 to 500 foot-candles), and high light intensity (500 to 1000 or more foot-candles).
Designed to make interior decorating with plants more cost effective and less time consuming, SunStick Home answers the basic light question in mere minutes and is packaged as a set of three for under eight dollars.
For a sample of SunStick Home or SunStick, please call 1-800-605-3769 or visit the website at www.gosunstick.com
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