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Old 07-05-2010, 10:45 PM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Basil dying

I tend to use a bowl of water with a plug of seedlings and tease them
apart by using the leaves, if you damage a leaf the plant can make a
new one but if you damage the stem at pricking out size you will kill
or stunt them.