Keep Your Basil Alive: Light, Water & Care Instructions

How to care for Basil

How often to water your Basil

Basil needs 0.5 cups of water every 9 when it doesn’t get direct sunlight and is potted in a 5" pot.

Use our water calculator to personalize watering recommendations to your environment or download Greg for more advanced recommendations for all of your plants.

Water 0.5 cups every
9

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☀️ Light

Finding light for Basil in your home

Basil may have difficulty thriving, and will drop leaves 🍃, without ample sunlight.

Place it less than 3 feet from a south-facing window to maximize the potential for growth.

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🪴 Nutrients

How to fertilize Basil

Nutrient, fertilizer, and repotting needs for Basil: repot after 2X growth

Most potting soils come with ample nutrients which plants use to produce new growth.

By the time your plant has depleted the nutrients in its soil it’s likely grown enough to need a larger pot anyway.

To replenish this plant's nutrients, repot your Basil after it doubles in size or once a year—whichever comes first.

what IS this?!😦 i use Back to the Roots potting soil, they live on my balcony currently so no direct sunlight, they weren’t like this yesterday! i don’t see any bugs- i do need to separate them into their own pots soon, they’ve been in this pot for about 2 weeks now. one thing i did notice with this newer bag of BTTR soil, there was way less perlite than the first bag i bought which concerned me a bit. any tips??