Ficus microcarpa, Aerial Root Experiment Results, The Bonsai Zone, July 2024 

Upcoming birthday means we'll get to see an update on your 60th birthday pine in a few days? :)

Happy Birthday from Fort Collins, Colorado, Nigel! Bravo on the aerial root experiment!

Who are you kidding?! We all know your hair is fabulous!!!

That's way more roots, than I expected. Cool!!

Exciting results! I am keen to see what the rest of your Summer brings for these roots!

Happy Birthday Nigel!🎉 I'm watching the Bonsai Zone since 2014! So i guess it's a decade were i put your wisdom in my own trees here in east germany. So far so good let's keep it going!

Cool done,Nigel

It's winter here in South Africa, I have a small Natal Ficus, in a humidity dome with a heat mat and a grow light. Got its 1st aerial roots in 2years. Keep up with great work and happy early Bday 🎉

Have a wonderful birthday Nigel!

Nice to see that this famous tree is on the right way and is doing well

nice work Nigel your every trees is a very healthy and a bonsai look is very good l Love it ❤🌳

Happy Birthday Nigel! Hope you have a great day on the 4th...You give so much, I hope you take a little time for yourself...Thanks for all you do...

MAKE TODAY A HAPPY ONE SIR NIGEL!!!

Happy Birthday, Nigel 🎉

Happy Birthday! Thanks for sharing your wisdom!

Happy Birthday. I have watched your videos from the start. Always enjoy and learn from your channel. Cheers from San Antonio, TX, USA

Congrats on the successful roots!!!! It’s even more in its way now!!!

July 4th. HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIGEL!!!!!!!!!

Now that was a great birthday present getting all of those aerial roots. Pre Happy Birthday Nigel!!!

I think that experiment payed off very well Nigel well done

Fantastic results, Nigel!

Brilliant foresight and truly and awesome job with your vision.... I am inspired and congratulations to you Nigel 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Happy Birthday, Nigel! I hope you're having a great one! I wasn't sure if you would post a video today, but I wanted to wish you happy birthday and many more. 🎉

Happy Birthday Nigel!

Happy birthday Nigel !! 🎉

Happy early birthday Nigel! Thank you for sharing this experience I think you really reach your goal to make these thicker roots divide! Can't wait to see this tree in a year or two! I will definitely try this on my ficus to avoid aerial roots getting out of proportion. Thanks for all that knowledge I'm learning so much in each video. From Montreal merci beaucoup!!

Oooo I've been waiting for this day. Excited to see what you get! Especially b/c I was inspired to do the same thing :)

Have a great birthday Nigel. You have been such a huge help for me. Thanks. It is me and my trees.....

Am happy to see the good results and you had many options, sweet! Guess it gonna look even more "ficusy" when all roots are stabilized etc.😀

Wow! Amazing root growth!! Happy, I guess, Belated Birthday now. ❤

Happy birthday, great present 🎂 🥳 🎉enjoy😊

Bomb pop man! ( what we call the ice cream truck here)!!

wow that is really fun u had balls like always i was scared last time u let me thinking and see this now wow what a surprise it will be so beautiful can t wait to see more update

Happy birthday to you Nigel! So happy to see the progress on this tree! ❤❤

I wonder how you are able to get such roots in a small span of time. I am your fan and started by bonsai journey after watching your videos Can you please share the temp , humidity, fertiliser etc that you use to get such root growths ?

You've gone from grey pineapple to Medusa! Lol! Lisa

Ficus Wednesday....❤❤

One thing I'm curious about with this experiment. I wonder if aerial roots are different and have different growth patterns then roots in the soil. I'm wondering if your experiment predicted soil roots and not aerial roots and maybe they'll dry out and not continue growing after the soil is removed? I'm not sure please keep us updated 😁

Hi from Italy!

Look beautiful

Happy birthday in advance sir🎉

Nicely done, your tree is going to look fantastic soon of you water it properly this summer!

That was a pretty stinking slick reveal, good sir. The “hairy” roots looked in scale if this were a humongous tree. Also, how ironic would it be for you to wire the roots for placement? 😉hehe

Thank you to Nigels hair ❤

My hair😂 A glorious Klingon mane!!😂🤣

Thật tuyệt vời 👍👍👍👍

Ariel roots can be trained with plastic straw,you can arrange the roots anyway you like

yay another ficus.

My immediate thought on seeing all those roots is that you could have moulded them into buttress or even ribbon roots

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Your hair I not terrible Nigel. Just knotted and tangled.

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" BRAVO "