Satsuki leaf colour

Here is the same satsuki. Thinned out all the leaves. Amazing how thick the foliage was. Tnx @Deep Sea Diver. Followed your advice on the autumn work. At least air is coming in.
I placed some timber under it to tilt the container and to elevate the rootball.

It is not wired yet. Just plucked the leaves.
 

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@Glaucus I will add a fertilizer which might solve the possible lack of iron.
Does the lack of iron also make tips go red in stead of yellowing leaves?

I have used this before mentioned fertilizer for the azalea.
But for my other trees I use Vabomix1 now, in combination with Osmocote and liquid fish (depending on developmental stage).
I could not see any Fe on the list of micronutrients on the fertilizer I use now.

Could the absence of iron in this fertilizer be a future problem to other species as well or is this mainly an azalea issue?
 
Adding fertilizer will often not work. Adding chelated iron, like EDTA-Fe2+ or EDDHA-Fe2+ does. The chelating agent makes it soluble and prevent it from forming insoluble salts with other minerals. So it makes it bioavailable in a way larger pH range. Which pH, depends on the chelating agent. If you add a tiny pinch of this to a glass of water. This will make it very red. Then dilute it until you can barely see it is pinkish. And you can add that to your plant.
The issue is not that iron isn't there. The issue is that because of the pH or the roots not working like they should, it likely isn't isn't available or being taken up by the roots.

Vabomix1 is an organic fertilizer. Organic matter contains trace elements. Just not immediately bioavailable ones.

Osmocote should have chelated iron in there as well. As it is a chemical fertilizer but with trade elements. But not 100% sure because some consumer versions seem different or have an incomplete label.
If you dilute the iron only in water, then you can even leverage leaf uptake. Not sure how supergood that works. Never did a proper experiment. But theoretically it should work. But if the leaf uptake of iron works, it can help plants with weak root systems that have iron chlorosis. A wetting agent would help even more, but I never used that.
 
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