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>buy mandarin tree
>find out after a while that it came already infested with scale (which spread to other citrus seedlings I'm growing)
>cut back the tree multiple times over the course of a year, while also using insecticidal soap
>find out citrus trees are very finicky about pruning
>tree dies (branches just turned brown and dried up) but notice little green buds on the dwarfing rootstock
>decide to keep it for now, maybe I can use the rootstock to practice making cuttings, or graft onto it in the future
>several weeks pass
>just checked on it today
>notice one shoot has mandarin leaves (the other shoots are all trifoliate), coming right out of the crotch of the graft union
>remove all the rootstock suckers and do pic related unironically
