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I am planning on doing that.

As you can see on the pictures, part of the bark around the base of the trunk has also rotted away.

Any info on whether it is better to leave the wound open, or to cover it up with woundpaste?
Or even treat the bare dead wood with Jin-oil?

Treating with lime-sulfure might mean, I could keep part of the wood.

As it is, getting a trunk to thicken is hard enough, so I'm not all that happy about having to carve chunks out of it...

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