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Tulsi (Holy Basil)

Name: Tulsi (Holy Basil)
Brand: Gamla
SKU: GM-PL-TUL-6
Price: 150 INR
Availability: InStock

The courtyard plant, in a pot finally worth standing by a door.

Ocimum tenuiflorum · तुळस Tulsi / तुलसी Tulsi

Pet safeTraditional useSacredFestivalGrown by us

₹150Inclusive of all taxes. Free delivery in Nagpur over ₹299.

Suits: Balcony · Garden · Entrance
In vastu: North-East · North · East
Size: 6" pot · grows to 60 cm
Gift for: Diwali · Housewarming · Ganesh Chaturthi

Grown for the courtyard it belongs in — sacred basil grown on properly and rooted before it reaches you, rather than the week-old cutting that usually turns up. Full sun, water daily, and pinch out the flower spikes to keep the leaf coming.

Light

Full Sun

Water

Medium

Care

Easy

Safe around cats and dogs

No known toxicity to household pets.

Add a plastic grow pot — +₹50

Prepaid only. Live plants can’t be sent cash-on-delivery — a refused delivery comes back dead.

30-day replacement guarantee. If it arrives damaged or declines within 30 days, send us a photo and we replace it.

Botanical name	Ocimum tenuiflorum
Also known as	तुळस Tulsi / तुलसी Tulsi
Size	6"
Light	Full Sun
Placement	Outdoor, Balcony
Mature height	60 cm
Delivery	Nagpur only
Handling	Standard
SKU	GM-PL-TUL-6
Country of origin	India

Keeping it alive

Water	Daily in summer. Pinch the flower spikes out the moment they appear or the plant puts everything into seed and stops making leaf.
Light	Full sun, six hours if you can. It is a sun plant and sulks anywhere else.

Worth gifting for

Diwali Housewarming Ganesh Chaturthi New Year

What it actually does

Kept in Indian households for generations

Cultural and culinary use, not medical advice — Grown by the door in millions of Indian homes, picked for tea and for puja.

Carries a story

Traditionally — Kept in a raised tulsi vrindavan in the courtyard of millions of Indian homes, watered each morning and lit at dusk. It is treated as a household presence rather than a plant, and Tulsi Vivah at the end of Kartik marries it formally to Vishnu, opening the wedding season.

Has a place in vastu

In vastu tradition — Placed in the north or north-east, raised off the ground, and never in the south.

Where it comes from

Native to the subcontinent and grown here for at least three thousand years. Two forms are common: Rama tulsi with green leaves and a milder scent, and Krishna tulsi with purple stems and a sharper, more clove-like one. Both are short-lived perennials that get woody and stop producing leaf if you let them run to seed.

Kept in a raised tulsi vrindavan in the courtyard of millions of Indian homes, watered each morning and lit at dusk. It is treated as a household presence rather than a plant, and Tulsi Vivah at the end of Kartik marries it formally to Vishnu, opening the wedding season.

In vastu

North-EastNorthEast

Placed in the north or north-east, raised off the ground, and never in the south.

Vastu placement is a traditional belief, and we include it because people ask. Nothing here is a claim about health. How we treat vastu, and what it does not do.