So you got your seeds to start this, filled bowls with dirt, watered it till it shows "soft" status, planted the seed and want to actually grow this. ->

Well if you just lock it down in a house it's ok and will grow soon, but you can also keep it in bank box and/or in first backpack of a playing character - it checks for growth then if these

come online.. good for holidays or if you havent got too much time to care every day for the plants.Anyhow the first growth check happens like 22 hours after you planted

it, i usually check right on server restart time.It will check for water consumption/growth/illnessand might grow to an adult plant on 7th growth day. Dont wonder if they catch an illness or need

more or less water to the next plant at your home, thats totally random - if they show a yellow + you counter that with the appropriate potion, if it is a red + chug down 2 and add

strength and heal if it isnt vibrant anymore, as illnesses suck up health too and plants can die here - and thats no good sight. :PSo your plant reached

day 7 and is ready to produce and receive pollen - you got to plan now: If you dont want another plant type, or another color then let it pollinate itself. The growing seed (as of day 9) will be of

same kind and color as the mother plant. If you want another color or plant type or both you have to chart up. Thats the real funny part!About color mixing:

Anything plain will ONLY produce plain colored seed, no matter what color it cross-pollinates with!Anything crossing with orange/green/purple will be basic yellow/red/blue or bright variant if its

orange/green/purple on both plants. ^^To receive bright colors your mother plant and pollen donator got to share same color - guess 2 brights also yield a bright mix, but puuh

never tried that.What you also got to plan is: do you need resources from your plants? Like green thorns (various effects but mostly used for

naturalists firered quest seeds) or orange petals (will let you resist poison for some time) or red leafs (to seal player made books so noone can ever edit them again)..if you do need those

resources you got to grow specialized plants:green thorn:bright green - barrel cactus& snake plant ->

orange petals:bright orange -poppies& bulrushes& pampas grasred leafs:bright red -

elephant ear plant & ponytail palm & century plantAfter you pollinated your plant it will start producing seeds and resources from day 9 up

to 8 seed and resources are stored, plant is dead or set into decoration mode..Just one note here - if you got a happy mutant (white or black) these wont pollinate or produce

seed or a resource once you grow them as plants.. thats really just a nice deco thats darn hard to get!If you want to stop gardening for some time but want to keep some

plants alive for future use (but dont want to care for them every day) just put them into a secured container at home! You can use these still to gather pollen and/or store the

resources and seeds or you just set them to decoration mode which cant be reversed - but get the resources and seed out first and drop at least the seed into a carpenter made seed box

(these can hold up to 500 seed easy with a nice filtering menu - just cant drop tokuno bonsai seeds to this :) )."What to cross"-chart in next book: Plant Crossing