I may have messed up my basil

First things first, welcome to the forum!  I am happy you found us and the wonderful world of Aerogardening.

Looking at the pics, it does appear that there are some shoots coming out of the top areas so it may be just fine.  I have done way worse with good results.  One great thing about basil is that it grows fast.

I may have some of my early pictures tp pull out so I will take a look later

Happy to have you here again and hope to see you posting again!

Here was one of my first Basils I had grown.  You can see I let it grow a few branches: 





Here is was after  my first cut:

Awesome, this is very helpful indeed!

Thanks!


Mike

Welcome, Mike!  I second Shawn, I’m glad you’ve joined us.

I just wanted to add, as it was news to me, that the first set of leaves aren’t true leaves. They’re called cotyledons, and that’s why people often wait for what appears to be the 3rd set of leaves, because it’s really only the 2nd set of leaves.  (I had to look up how to pronounce cotyledons, lol). Basil is very hearty so I think yours will be fine. It’ll be a good example for all of us.  Do keep us updated! 

I'm pretty sure I've cut tops on my basil right after the first set of large leaves in order to try to get a more compact plant, and it did fine. It's harder to get basil to stop growing IMO than anything.

Boy, you can say that again! Basil is a beast when it gets going.

can  you snap a photo of the inside to show the roots? I doubt the roots need cutting so early on for s delicate parsley plant..

I meant "reply"

Usually you don’t have to trim roots on herb plants, and those look fine. But the Sprout basin is pretty small, and since they’re a few months old I don’t think a conservative trim would hurt them.  That said, I don’t think you really have to if it makes you nervous. Which one is the parsley?