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pete · December 21, 2009

I have started basil every year for 10 years, sweet, lemon, purple and others. It usually germinates in 4-7 days and is 5" tall in 6 weeks. I do keep it warm, 80-85 day and 70 at night during the starting period.

I did start some 6 days ago on my counter top-65 room temp and they are just starting to "pop" thru the dirt. These seeds came in a chia-pet type deal and the basil was the short hair style!!

If yours are that old and you have no obvious plant, start over and heat them up if your temps are low-- basil likes it HOT. Only put 2-3 seeds per cell, when I first started I dumped a bunch in each cell and had to thin out- it took a while.

Pete

December 21, 2009	#2
pete Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: cincinnati Posts: 202	basil I have started basil every year for 10 years, sweet, lemon, purple and others. It usually germinates in 4-7 days and is 5" tall in 6 weeks. I do keep it warm, 80-85 day and 70 at night during the starting period. I did start some 6 days ago on my counter top-65 room temp and they are just starting to "pop" thru the dirt. These seeds came in a chia-pet type deal and the basil was the short hair style!! If yours are that old and you have no obvious plant, start over and heat them up if your temps are low-- basil likes it HOT. Only put 2-3 seeds per cell, when I first started I dumped a bunch in each cell and had to thin out- it took a while. Pete