White mold in leaf bases

[Plantking165]

Today I was watering my coconuts and I noticed a bit of white mold on tbe outside of my red spicata so I decided to tear off a bit of the leaf base and the fuzzy stuff on the base got inside the areas between the trunk and the leaf base and there was a bunch of white mold or fungus down there is that normal or harmful? It was quite a bit. Also will a copper fungicide get rid of it.

[96720]

Pictures would be nice!! But it sounds like mealybug to me!

[Plantking165]

I tried to get pictures but its quite down in there. I didn't wanna break off the leaf base for pics so I just went with the description. No bugs present that I saw more like a big buildup of mold deep down in the leaf base where it meets tbe trunk.

[96720]

Mealybugs don’t look like bugs they are just white fuzzy spots. You should be able to remove them with a sting blast of water!!

[Plantking165]

Yeah this was a patch of mold no bugs I saw and I've dealt with mealy bugs but it's unlikely because I've done a pesticide treatment 2 weeks ago so it's not likely they are there I do have plenty of mites eating the palms tho.