I got an idea in my head, and now I can't get rid of the idea. I bought a tree (my profile tree) and it has a nice deadwood feature. BUT, at the base it is quite rotted. Where it should be flaring out, it's all scooped in and mushy. My crazy idea is to torch the deadwood to create a more life-like lightning strike/burn/char feature.
What's stopping me is: 1) nobody else is doing it so it may be frowned upon in the bonsai community, 2) I don't know if the tree's cambium layer can handle the internal heat created from the procedure, and 3) I paid $200 for this tree and it's the 2nd most expensive piece of material I have.
Any thoughts would be quite welcome.