Trident nutrient deficiency?

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I have a tree (~4m) that was dug up in spring and I guess barerooted and put into coco fiber/ gravel mix and then sent to me. I had no place to plant it yet so its still in that pot. Seems like an ok potting medium and I found some healthy roots when I dug into the pot. I threw some fertilizer its way a while ago but not sure what.
The tree is in leaf now but the new growth has not extended beyond 3 or 4cm. Also, the newest leaves are light-green, orange, red. Seems like something is missing but I dont know what.
 

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The tree might be focusing 90% of its energy on regrowing its root system.
 

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Looks like just some new leaves, still need to be pumped up by nutrients.
Old leaves look good. if you had a deficency, then old leaves would be effected too.
 

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Maybe missing some nitrogen though?
 

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It looks to me like varying ages of new trident leaves. There's a decidedly red-orange hue that changes to deep green as it hardens off ...with some time spent as light green before getting there. The lack of extensions is probably due to its being recently collected.

It seems healthy enough that you can fertilize it without issue.
 

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This is what scale looked like on my ficus when it got really bad. You'll probably find bigger darker ones elsewhere.

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