Hello friends in today's video we're gonna see
How to prune the Curry leaf plant
To get a nice, bushy plant
Now if you do not prune your Curry leaf plant its gonna
grow tall and not that Bushy
And that can decrease the harvest that you can get
From you curry leaf plant
Because the new leaves only produced at the tips
So if you look at all these notches that I'm showing you
This is the place where the plant has been trimmed
And these are the new branches that are coming out
So not only will that result in a nice harvest as you will see
It'll also let you grew a nice bushy curry leaf plant
And in this video we will also look at
The right way to harvest your curry leaves
So a lot of folks I know
Are very hesitant to prune their curry leaf plants
Especially when their small
So I'm gonna show you how I pruned this 6 inch curry leaf plant and its progress
So as you can see here I cut off the tip - the growing tip
And as soon as I did that you can see the new offshoots coming
And in just a few days
They were all separate branches
And its again nice and bushy
So this is the same plant planted in the ground
And look all nice and bushy it looks
So if you put on your prune your plant
When its young
This is how you're gonna get your solid base for the plant
Look how nicely this curry leaf plant has forked into these two big branches
So harvesting the leaves from the curry leaf plant is actually a way to prune the plant
itself
So you cut off about 8 inches or so from the growing tip
And that's your harvest
And what forces the plant to do is send out offshoots
Where you make the cut
I know a lot of people who harvest the leaves in the
wrong way
By just pulling off the leaves or just plucking them from the stems
That's not the right way to harvest curry leaves
So that's our curry leaves harvest
Look how nice the leaves are
And you're going to get the most flavorful leaves this way
And if you've harvested all your growing tips this way
Just harvest the leaf at the petiole part
And not the leaflets alone
Do not leave skeletons in your Curry leaf plant
So in about a week or so as you can see it this is the same place where we made
the cut
And you can see like 3-4 branches coming out
This will make the plant even more bushy as it grows
So it's time for our next harvest
it's been about a week and I needed some more leaves
So we're just gonna chop it off at one of these nodes
Just make your best guess and cut it at the place where you want
The plant to grow
And in that way you're going to get a nice bushy plant
So I'm gonna prune this one as well
By harvesting the leaves from right this part
That looks pretty good
The harvest is right here again nice fresh leaves
So just to summarize what we saw
We saw the right way to harvest curry leaves
Not by picking the leaves at the bottom of the plant
But by trimming the tops
And by trimming the tops you also prone the plant
So that the plant grows nice and bushy
And when there are no more growing tips available for harvest
You should harvest the entire petiole
And not just the leaflets and leave skeletons in your plant
So I hope you like these steps about growing your curry leaf plant
Pruning it and harvesting it
I'll see you again soon
Until then...Happy Gardening!
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