I picked this tree up for $16 at a "last chance" sale. Didn't want to see it die, so I picked it up knowing it was probably going to die anyway. It's got some weird leave rot and is growing wildly.



It says "Seto Mandarin".



Tree out in the sun light.



I'm guessing this is nitrogen related?



Whole branch at the bottom I'm thinking of cutting off.



It's new resting place next to my "Blood Banana". Build that lighting rig today. Hopefully it will be enough.



No idea about this damage.

I started it with some Osmocote. The pink stuff. I watered it with a high nitrogen based liquid fertilizer to try and get the leaves back.

Now what to do about pruning? It's pretty wild. Should I wait to prune until I know it's not going to shock out on me?

By the way, I found 2 black widows when I was making room. That's weird considering they're territorial. Anything I can use outside of pyrithrods to get rid of them?

Well,
I would advice now to be little patient and wait, if the tree will recover...
So, do no prunning, until new shoots emerge...
Just give the tree a couple of time, to settle and regrow... if the roots are healthy, it would not get worse and maybe new shoots will start growing....
Just be patient...

About the black widows: Well, as far from my knowledge those spiders are dangerous... but... slamming them with a shoe won't be surviveable for those...
So, if you want to kill em, just get them of, to the ground an kill em just stepping onto them. Their venomous claws won't get through leather or the thick rubber sole of the shoe....
Otherwise catch em with a glas and hand it out to someone wo takes care... and a spider-ex does not often have a non-visible effect on spiders, they take a sniff, grin and live, as nothing might happened....
So if you will killem, sqeuzzing to death is very well....