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100% Akadama and I fertilize in spring with BioGold.

A comment about 100% akadama. In some climates akadama breaks down pretty quickly. I have found a mess of broken down akadama in the bottom of some of my pots that is really nothing but mud. I don't know if it is the heat or the watering. During the summer months, for us May to October, either it rains all day or it is >100F/35C and I water twice a day. During the winter it rains almost every day. Right now we are at 39"; for the year, right at a 1 meter. I have a couple of bags of akadama and when I used it up, I doubt I will replace it but will do something else. I may go to a mix of pumice and lava with some ground up organics.

Thanks Ivan for your feedback..
In fact I have been repotting my trees (which are all in 100% akadama, elms, maples, juniper, etc) every 2-3 years... and so far I have not found a muddy soil on the bottom, though you are not the first I hear describing this.
The temperatures in Milan vary from min -5 Celsius in Jan up to max 35 Celsius in July.
However climate is getting dryer and dryer every year (unfortunately) and, though summers here are very hot and humid (awfully), it rains really very little.
So maybe, as you write, I may be in a range of temperature that allows akadama not to break down to dust and mud... therefore my experience with it is great: very good drainage, easy to check if needs watering, easy to remove when repottting.
Certainly, it dries much quicker than organic soil in summer or with wind.

how long was it in that pot

I don?t want to look like I want to promote my video badly, but I really think this is the most important thing when you get a mallsai...
Wash the roots, modern substrate, full sun outside in summer, cold room in winter.

Thank you all for the advice! It seems you were right and it was just a natural product of a mild winter and needing to be outside. It is now outside 90% of the time. Here is what it looks like as of today:

It should be outside 100% of the time. This plant is in a very small pot for the size of the tree. I would want it in a pot say 20% bigger, impossible to tell the size of the pot, but a if a 10cm pot then I would want a 12cm pot and let it grow to that size. You could then get it into some decent soil,Akadama being the preferred option.