Every photo you upload to a planting or a bed already gets looked over — MyPlot analyses it for plant health, crowding, and anything worth flagging. Until now, that analysis stayed locked to the photo card itself. Ask Sprout, the AI garden assistant, a question about that same photo, and it would tell you it couldn't see it. That's fixed, and while we were in there, we also fixed Sprout losing track of what you were looking at every time you changed pages.
The fix was to stop treating the photo analysis as something that only lived on the page it was uploaded to. Every photo already gets an AI insight the moment it's added — a short written summary covering plant condition, density, and anything that looks off. That text was sitting right there in your garden's data the whole time. Sprout just wasn't being told to look at it.
It's a small distinction, but it matters: Sprout isn't sending your photo off for a fresh look every time you ask a question about it. It's reading the analysis that was already generated when you uploaded it, the same text shown on the photo card itself. That keeps answers quick and keeps them grounded in something you can double-check yourself, rather than a new guess every time you ask.
Now, whenever you ask Sprout something about a planting, a bed, or the plant on the page you're currently viewing, it pulls in whatever photo analysis already exists for that entity and answers from it directly — no re-uploading, no repeating yourself. If you've asked "how does this look?" on a planting page and later come back to Sprout with "did you notice any pests in that photo?", it has the context already.
The second change is smaller to describe but noticeable in daily use: Sprout used to reset every time you moved to a different page — ask a question on a planting page, click through to the garden, and the conversation was gone. Sprout's panel now stays put as you navigate around MyPlot, so a conversation you started while looking at your tomatoes is still there if you wander over to check the herb bed and come back.
The photo context isn't limited to plantings, either. Bed pages get the same treatment — ask Sprout about a bed's photo and it draws on whatever the analysis for that bed picked up, whether that's a note about crowding, a pest worth watching, or simply confirmation that everything looks healthy. If a bed or planting has more than one photo, Sprout uses whichever analysis is most relevant to what you're asking rather than just the most recent upload.
Together, these two changes make Sprout feel a lot more like an assistant that's actually been paying attention, rather than one you have to re-brief every time you move around the app. Both are quiet fixes rather than new buttons to learn — you just get better answers, and Sprout stops disappearing on you mid-conversation. Open a planting or bed with an uploaded photo and ask Sprout about it directly — it's live now.