Getting Started with Bonsai Trees

1. Craft a Bonsai Pot and place it anywhere - it does not need light, water or space above it.
2. Right-click the pot with a soil - plain dirt works fine to start (see Soils for the full list and their speed differences).
3. Right-click the pot with a sapling (or another compatible plant - see Saplings & Plants). The miniature tree starts growing immediately.
4. Watch it grow. The model enlarges through its growth stages until the tree is fully grown.
5. Harvest. Break the grown tree by hand to pop out its drops, or open the pot and install a cutting tool (an axe) in an upgrade slot to have the pot chop the tree automatically every time it finishes growing.

Right-clicking with an empty hand retrieves the sapling or soil again; breaking the pot drops everything it holds.