The idea of growing basil from cuttings and starting this before winter seemed to be puzzling to me, far more easy and faster than growing from seedlings. Trying if this works will be exciting, especially now when it’s time to cut off the basil from garden before the first frost will kill it.
Another way to keep basil through the winter is trimming it heavily and taking home - I've done it one year with great success.
Current basil was fading away already, so I made fresh pesto from leaves, but also from part of the stems I took basil cuttings. Removed majority of leaves and placed them in a fancy liqueur glass by sunny windowsill – that is suppose to guarantee 100% success rate. Fancy glass including of course…
This is done exactly same as I’ve done with brugmansia cuttings taken in the autumn as well.
Will keep you posted if it rooted or what else happened.
Would you give it a try, as well?
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Fresh cuttings like these should start to root in a about a week. It's good to change the water every day to prevent cuttings from rotting. Let us know if this worked out for you and good luck! :)
We used top be able to start them from cuttings using fresh basil you bought at the grocery store, but lately it seems to have been kept too cold.
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