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Scale? Mealybugs?

wilde

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I have an indoor alexander palm that I have been growing for over a year. It's been slow but is surviving. I noticed the stems had a white looking fuzz and never really thought anything until I found out about scale and mealy bugs.  Now I'm terrified it's one or the other. Can anyone help me confirm this nightmare and what is best? I tried spraying with iso but the leaves started to torn paler with a bit of yellow so I don't really want to do that again. Please help I can't loose my baby

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That should be tomentum. A fuzzy growth on a palm tree. Not bugs. A. alexandrae has that stuff on its petioles and leaves.

Could use a full-size image of the plant. Something might be going on, with the way one of the leaves is all yellowed up... Tomentum is not on the surface of the leaves, but your yellowing leaf does have something on it, which I can't tell from these images what it is.

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Species I'm growing from seed: Verschaffeltia splendida, Chrysalidocarpus leptocheilos, Licuala grandis, Hyophorbe verschaffeltii, Johannesteijsmannia altifrons, Bentinckia condapanna, Livistona benthamii, Licuala mattanensis 'Mapu', Beccariophoenix madagascariensis, Chrysalidocarpus decaryi. 

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Whew!! Thank you sooo much. I was having a panic attack.

The one leaf has a bit of a striated light yellow color to it as it is a bit dried out. The overall plant is now because I went into panic mode thinking it was scale or mealybugs so I started spraying the hell out of it with isopropyl and poor thing is dry. I have been spraying with mist and humidifier to rehydrate and bring her back to life

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