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Basil is self pollinating so I’ll probably keep this one separate, maybe even indoors in a grow tent and probably take some clones from it. From that I’ll let a bunch of stalks or clones flower, collect the seeds, start a fresh batch and cull all the seedlings that do not exhibit the mutation. Get some healthy plants from that seed stock, breed them back with the original non mutated line to keep it from getting too inbred, harvest seeds, and start and cull those again keeping the desired traits. Eventually you should be able to get ~50-80% of the seeds to grow with the mutation. That’s a completely made up range but you can get mutations and crosses pretty reliable usually. The most difficult part is keeping them from crossing with other basils, but that’s just because they are very easy to breed and cross and bastardize. Which is how you get here in the first place, I suppose.