• spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    I had a basil plant I neglected like hell and barely managed to keep alive for ~2 years. By the end of its life after several rounds of barely surviving me forgetting to water it for a week or two, its stems had become woody. I don’t know if all mature basil stems harden or if that was a consequence of my plant abuse

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      12 hours ago

      I have a couple basil plants and they’ve been in the garden for 3 years now and so far they got taller than me and still no wood, the stem is still green, so I was like wtf is basil wood when I seen this post and even harder wtf when I read your comment, but I guess every plant’s stem becomes wood when it dries out…

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      1 month ago

      I see, so we usually eat up the plant before it can even get to the stage of developing wood, now it makes sense.