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been growing this for a while now

Nice! Basil is great.

Nice; they're pushing out their first adult leaves.

I'm not sure what kind that is (sweet basil, etc.) but it looks like you might want to look into how many plants you should have in that pot and start weeding out your weaker seedlings; otherwise the pot might get too crowded and the stronger ones will get slowed down fighting over territory and nutrients. Generally you'll get bigger healthier plants if you remove the runts early on.

Great looking baby basil!

I love basil, and it's easy to keep the leaves fresh for many months, to use in cooking, by freezing them. That way one can use the harvest from some basil plants long after the plants are gone (they're annuals, so they are "programmed" to die after flowering).

Steve_D wrote:That way one can use the harvest from some basil plants long after the plants are gone (they're annuals, so they are "programmed" to die after flowering).

I did not know this! I wondered why our basil plant died after it flowered

Veronis wrote:Nice; they're pushing out their first adult leaves.

I'm not sure what kind that is (sweet basil, etc.) but it looks like you might want to look into how many plants you should have in that pot and start weeding out your weaker seedlings; otherwise the pot might get too crowded and the stronger ones will get slowed down fighting over territory and nutrients. Generally you'll get bigger healthier plants if you remove the runts early on.

i agree, i have a smaller pot of basil also, and in that pot there is only about 5 of them growing. planted them on the same day and there probley about 3x the size