Hi all, next week i will be in my first year in Bonsai and really proud of it. Anyway i have some questions and as this is my first year in bonsai i am not an expert but i have an idea and i wanted to know what you think. I have been seeing some great trees with lots and lots of dead wood in them and have seen alot of working done to trunk. I have 2 privets that have some natural dead wood which i find fantastic. So here is my question, instead of working and carving some wanted dead branches what if we try to cut the vein from where we want the branch dead and then leave it to die naturally, the bark will come of by its own in some years and the dead wood is naturaly and you don't have to grate, carve, sand, fire and everything else we do to kill a trunk or branch?
i wanted to know if anyone tried this before
Thanks
Noel
i wanted to know if anyone tried this before
Thanks
Noel