Step 2 - Proper Lighting for Your Bonsai
A bonsai should be placed where it is viewed. Where a bonsai is placed is also where it grows. A bonsai must be placed in favorable environment. The location should receive sufficient sunshine, be well ventilated, and have properly maintained temperature. As a general rule, you should consider the origins of a plant and how it would grow naturally. For example you would keep a rainforest fig in part-shade with filtered sunlight which mimics the environment that it would naturally grow in. You can bring your bonsai inside - but not permanently - and it must be ensured that they are given extra-special attention. Generally you should only keep your bonsai inside for more than 3 days a month at most. You may wish to display your bonsai when you are having a special occasion or to admire their beauty when they are flowering or fruiting, but it is not advised to bring them in too often for risk of causing undue stress to the plant.
Step 3 - Watering your Bonsai
Watering is indispensable to bonsai raising. It is a plant's lifeline. Proper watering promotes a plant's growth. Otherwise the plant becomes weary or withered. Although watering does not sound too difficult, you must keep experimenting to master it. Watering takes the most amount of time in bonsai raising, and in this sense it is the most intimate contact you have with your bonsai plant. You should master this fundamental for a plant's growth. How frequently you water your bonsai depends on many things. A dry wind, excessive heat, or a combination of both, can quickly dry out the soil, so you must monitor moisture levels regularly. Generally if you keep your trees outside where rain can water them, you don't need to worry much in the winter except in times of hot weather or little rain. In the summer you should endeavour to water your plants several times a week, and daily in very hot periods - where you should move the trees into the shade. You may find it is a good idea to set up a drip sprinkler system - where the bonsai are watered every day in the summer and every three days in the winter.
To keep your bonsai in good shape and to maintain healthy growth requires regular feeding at the right time of year with the correct fertilizer. Fertilizer must be continually replenished due to a certain amount being washed out each time the plant is watered.