I just saw this other post, https://lemmy.world/post/50970674, about cutting the flowers off of a basil plant. I noticed that mine was growing fairly quickly, until the flowers showed up, and now the leaves have stopped getting bigger.
If the plant has already developed flowers, do I still cut them off?
You will get more edible leaves by cutting back. The taste of the basil leaves can change if you don’t cut them off too.
Or you can do what I do, realize you don’t use enough basil to justify growing it for food, then continue to grow it anyway and let the plant flower so the bees can have it. My local bees love when I let my basil flower.