Livistona chinensis growing again after three years

[Tomas]

This plant stopped to grow three years ago, it took all these years for the new leaf to grow and open, the spear did not appeared at all. This is how the new growth looks. I did some digging with a screwdriver in the centre of the plant this spring, so it could have been simply mechanicaly blocked.

Tomas

[Pal Meir]

Three years ago we had also in Middle Europe a very severe freeze lasting from February to March 2012. This may be the first reason for the damage, causing a frozen spear inside which later got rotten. This dried out and made something like a clot which you have now removed. I had a similar experience with a Chamaedorea elegans that was exposed in February 2002 only one night to a freeze of -12°C: