Viewing post #2516577 by Electricpapaya580

NMoasis said:Not necessarily a bigger pot. Put fewer plants in the pot. One plant in that pot would be thicker and healthier than those 15 or so spindly stalks, especially if you put it outside in sun for at least the first half of the day. That isn't how basil should look. They are too crowded for root space, nutrients, water and light. Basils need light and space. You can only force growth so long with fertilizer before it finally gives up. It's like depriving a human of food and exercise and keeping them alive with vitamins and IV liquids...their health will deteriorate.

In the garden, basils are treated as annuals, which means they sprout, grow, flower, set seed and die in less than a year. They are short-lived perennials in tropical climates. Indoors they don't stay happy for long. I'm so sorry, I can't suggest anything else for your plant.

Oh Haha well it actually is one plant. I got it at the grocery store last summer and have never added anything to the pot. At one point the leaves just started drooping even when I watered it, then they yellowed. It was in the sun most of the time in the beginning. But the leaves never stopped drooping. Still I will get it a bigger pot either way