When To Water Basil - Italian Basil Watering Tips

hey everybody I'm Alan Schaffer at custom garden solutions in this exciting new episode I'm going to provide a follow-up to an episode called how to grow basil indoors I did just the other day before I start this is a great time to start basil indoors so that in six to eight weeks you have bass of leaves to harvest all fall in winter in the episode how to grow basil indoors I mentioned that you know when to water the base of plants when the leaves sag droop wilt and look kind of limp or lifeless well I've purposely not watered this Italian basil plant and here is what saggy droopy wilty limp and lifeless looks like [Music] here is what the plants look like just four to five days ago so let's talk about harvesting your basil so what you want to do is you always want to pinch from the top I may have gone a little overboard in trying to show you guys my example I'm going to water and come back in a few hours and if I'm right the basil plant will have made a tremendous comeback and will no longer look saggy droopy will t limp and lifeless if you can you want to use filtered water you should also use room-temperature water I don't have filtered water today so I'll use some water that I've had sitting at room temperature for a couple of days in the episode titled how to grow pepper plants from seed indoors at about the 14 minute 57 second mark I talked about how to reduce the chlorine chloramine and other possible chemicals from your municipal tap water I'll put a link to that up above and in the description down below and you can check that out for yourselves I want a basil about twice a week but of course that'll vary based on humidity temperature wind size of the plant size of the container and a bunch of other factors perfect I'll be back in a couple hours to show you the progress okay so it's been a couple of hours I mentioned earlier that I water about twice a week I want to urge you to not go by a set schedule for watering to not feel the soil for how moist the soil is etc when you're growing indoors you should wait until a plant starts to slightly begin to droop sag wilt and look a little limp and lifeless you don't need to go to the extent I did and how long you hold back watering I did that to prove a point so just wait until the plant shows the slightest little I'm sagging drooping wilt even going little limp and lifeless saggy droopy wilty and Limpy kind of sounds like a couple of the Seven Dwarfs and now for the magic moment I will reveal how the recently watered plant looks row row please here we go so let's see how things turned out and the answer is things turned out awesome I knew they would and there's no more sagging or drooping or wilting and there's no limpness or lifelessness the plant looks tremendous it's nice and green there's no insects there's no spotting there's no disease the bottom leaves look good they're not yellow or anything like that which might indicate a little bit too much watering so I proved my hypothesis or I proved my point the moral of the story is don't water on a certain schedule you know every five days every four days don't feel the soil for how moist it is to determine if you need to water listen to the plant it'll tell you be the basal plant whisperer and when the leaves start to Sag droop or wilt or if it becomes a little limp and lifeless just a slightest bit of that then it's time to water I water about 25% of the time sorry 25% of time from the top and about 75% from the bottom anyway and we want to thank all participants in today's episode the Italian basil plant will be receiving a lifetime supply of watering fertilizing and love and care thanks to the good folks at custom garden solutions Ellen Schaefer at custom garden solutions our channel is all about helping you grow herbs and vegetables and all kinds of cool garden stuff so that you can live a healthier and happier life if you to our channel and you want to learn all about growing herbs or vegetables of all kinds our cool garden stuff start today by subscribing it's a subscription button you can always unsubscribe it's free not fatal not final and then after you've subscribed you might want to hit the notification bell so you don't miss anything because you never know what I'm gonna be talking about next and now our mascot your favorite the pepper [Music] [Music]

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Id: SR8oqlVbGao

Length: 6min 41sec (401 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 09 2018