Is my Washy dying?

[Nikoskater]

Hello everyone, i put my Washingtonia filibusta in the ground 1 year ago, after the winter, it has produced 2-3 new leaves, but now the 2 new spears are soft and wobbly.
it is fertilized with palm booster.

do you guys think it is dying?

is there something i can do to save it?

thanks

[Nikoskater]

Update:

Two spear pulled

i dropped some 3% hydrogen peroxide ad it sizzled.

 

[Mazat]

where is your location? this would be important to know because of your climate.

what were your absolute minimum temperatures in your garden?

washingtonia fillibusta can already suffer damage from -4 degrees celsius, we saw this with a friend from southern switzerland in ticino.

it's hard to say, in my opinion it looks like it has rot in the center/heart (hope i'm wrong) where new spears should sprout ...

we had already observed that when it got too cold with frost and then thawed and was still cool and wet, it started to rot.

I would wait and not water any more now.
is the soil very moist and have you had a lot of rain in the last few days?

[Nikoskater]

I’m located in north east Italy (near udine) and the lowest temp here this winter was -2c overnight (warmer then the winter before)

None of my other palms suffered from it (cidp in the ground, robusta, cidp in pot as well as Washingtonia seedlings)

few kilometers from my place I see happy washingtonia in other peoples gardens.

It rained a lot last week and temp dropped a bit for spring weather, we had peaks of 27c during the day and 8c during the night.

Weather forecast seems to show no signs of rain stopping, so there’s no way I could stop watering it.

the top soil is covered with coco choir, like last summer, I took it off for winter and put new one this spring.

If it had winter issues would it put out 3 perfect leaves from April to now?

[WSimpson]

You can always cut back to healthy tissue and use a fungicide . I'm pretty sure it will out grow that issue fast . 

Good luck . 

[Nikoskater]

Do you think copper sulphate will do the job?

should I put it even though I just poured hydrogen peroxide?

[WSimpson]

Sure , they go well together . The peroxide will zap that bacteria  and the fungicide will also kill any bacteria it comes into contact  . Washys grow so fast that you shouldn't  worry about it coming back fast . Just get rid of the bacteria fomenting in the bud . 

[Nikoskater]

Little update 2 weeks later.

after pulling the rotten spear and treating the crown with hydrogenperoxide and copper sulphate one leaf has started to open up with little damage and a new spear is pushing out.

Thanks everyone for your help, I’ll keep you updated