She was soaking succulents? 24 hours? That doesn't sound too good to me. I've never used a moisture meter. I think others here can give you feedback on those. I've used those gel bits once, but not on succulents and they came as a sample. They were pretty weird to use, I thought. One of the first tries caused the plant to come completely out of the container once they'd swollen up with water. Never did get the hang of it, so at one point all that I had left was worked into an inground flowerbed. They were there for a while.
The link may not work in treemail either. The restriction may apply to your user name and/or password and if it is, it won't work that way either. In any case, it hasn't shown up in my treemail. I think the wait time isn't that long until you get past being new. Seems like it was about 10 days or something like that. It's only in place to avoid spammers and they usually strike quickly and with masses of spam posts. That's how the restriction came to be, I think. Multiple forums got clogged up with multiple spam posts.