Why does my basil plant have small leaves? How do I get them to grow bigger?
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just add water
Reduce their Sunlight to early mornings and late afternoons
Malnutrition or just plain genetics. For the later reason I suggest reading up on Gregor Mendel's work on pea-plants.
Make sure that you pick a few leaves here and there often. It will encourage new growth and more growth. I've found that the more I use herbal plants and pick from them.the larger they grow.
It may be the variety of basil you have.
Basil cultivars vary in several ways. Visually, the size of the leaves varies greatly, from the large lettuce-like leaves of the Mammoth basil and Lettuce leaf basil to the tiny leaves of the Dwarf bush basil. More practically, the fragrance of the basil varies due to the varying types and quantities of essential oils contained in the plants.
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