The tree smells good in warm weather, not like so-called "pine" scented disinfectant, and it exudes resin. I tried it as solder flux, it works well.

I'm not aware of any power loss, the Hentenna was good for an opening to the south of Portugal (5+9+), that's about 1100 miles using 30W, a few weeks ago, there's a bundle of coax down the tree and a switch for antenna selection in the shack. As far as heating goes I won't get much from 100W but I did take the precaution of moving the garden machinery fuel from the adjoining shed to a safer place.