Bonsai trees are tiny works of living art have delighted and mystified people for centuries. Perfectly pruned, these miniature trees provide hours of enjoyment as well as giving an air of relaxation to the room in which they reside.
A designer looking bonsai like this costs a lot of money but developing it by yourselves is not only satisfying but becomes your prized possession.
To develop arial roots on bonsai you need have following basic materials :

➽A lot of patient
➽ black plastic bag
➽ A pair of scissors
➽ Young sapling of plant
➽ Soil mixture
➽ A pot
➽ A few stones/ bricks
Let's get started
Take the plastic bag and cut bottom with scissors. Now it looks like a hollowed pipe. Here I have used black plastic bag but you can use any kind of bag that is 50 micron or more as it has to last for couple of months and face different atmospheric conditions.
Take the pot, it can any pot a terracotta or plastic container, here I am using a shallow oval bonasi pot.
Place the plastic bag on the pot. Plant the sapling (ginseng ficus ,dicus reigiosa ,schefflera ) or any of the plant cuttings in horizontal position. Cover the roots and the stem with soil. Secure the sides of the soil filled bag with some support from both sides.
Treat this plant as one of usual bonsai.
Now here the role of PATIENT. The whole project should be left undisturbed for couple of months depending upon how fast the species the plant is used.
It takes 24 months for the roots are strong enough to stand on their own and ready to exposed .
Final phase
Cut the plastic bag and you find splendid mesh of roots from top going to pot.
EXPOSING THE ROOTS
Now there are two ways to remove the soil that was contained in the plastic bag. Either leave it on it own to come out - a natural withering or use water jet to remove.
Though the above plant was standing on its own ,i added straw pipes to still developing roots and wires for added support for a month
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