i opened one of my palms last week to find all this white stuff on the fronds but only the front. it isn’t raised or anything but at first it wouldn’t come off until i added treatment to it. it’s not on the second palm but not as bad. when i try to use picture this plant app it doesn’t say anything is wrong w it. could it be from the wilt stop i used leaving marks on the fronds? also yes ik the fronds dont look so hot they always look like this after i open them and our lawn mower guys cut up this palm in the summer so its recovering. it looks better today than it did last week but idk i feel like its just weird that its only on the front and is also on the other palm.  

It may be scale, given those round groupings.

5 hours ago, parishilton said:

i opened one of my palms last week to find all this white stuff on the fronds but only the front. it isn’t raised or anything but at first it wouldn’t come off until i added treatment to it. it’s not on the second palm but not as bad. when i try to use picture this plant app it doesn’t say anything is wrong w it. could it be from the wilt stop i used leaving marks on the fronds? also yes ik the fronds dont look so hot they always look like this after i open them and our lawn mower guys cut up this palm in the summer so its recovering. it looks better today than it did last week but idk i feel like its just weird that its only on the front and is also on the other palm.  

it looks like spider mites from here, unfortunately I already had them on my indoor plants. they like dryness very much, but not moisture. but i`m not sure.
maybe it's really from the pruning by the gardeners. it's difficult to say. here we had a gardener who cut back the mediterranean cypress in october 2023 to 1m and the agave mexicana variegata, imagine that ...
it took some time to recover and the agave americana variegata never recovered, we were very angry with the gardeners to put it politely ...

Whenever I suspect any scale or mealy bug infestation , I take a mild , soapy water solution and a soft rag to wipe down the foliage . Sometimes it takes repeated applications, but it works . Most bugs don’t like soap , even a mild solution . It could be residue from your prior treatment , wiping it off would tell . If the the whitish stuff returns , it would be bugs. Harry

2 hours ago, Harry’s Palms said:

Whenever I suspect any scale or mealy bug infestation , I take a mild , soapy water solution and a soft rag to wipe down the foliage . Sometimes it takes repeated applications, but it works . Most bugs don’t like soap , even a mild solution . It could be residue from your prior treatment , wiping it off would tell . If the the whitish stuff returns , it would be bugs. Harry

how often should i apply the soap? 

4 hours ago, Mazat said:

it looks like spider mites from here, unfortunately I already had them on my indoor plants. they like dryness very much, but not moisture. but i`m not sure.
maybe it's really from the pruning by the gardeners. it's difficult to say. here we had a gardener who cut back the mediterranean cypress in october 2023 to 1m and the agave mexicana variegata, imagine that ...
it took some time to recover and the agave americana variegata never recovered, we were very angry with the gardeners to put it politely ...

it’s been pretty rainy and humid here besides during our cold snap last week. and yeah i’d be so pissed. idk why these lawn people and landscapers are always so careless. they even destroyed my rain gauge and cut up my banana tree i was so pissed and now i think i need to protect my palm whenever they’re coming so that they don’t destroy it since they seem to be good at destroying everything 

5 hours ago, SeanK said:

It may be scale, given those round groupings.

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Fire your "lawn mower guy" if he's indeed responsible for "cut up this palm". Manually clean the leaflets and treat sparingly for what appears to be early stage mealy bug infestation. This palm looks quite anemic in it's current state and won't take much inclement weather or pest infestation to push it past life's threshold.

2 hours ago, Las Palmas Norte said:

Fire your "lawn mower guy" if he's indeed responsible for "cut up this palm". Manually clean the leaflets and treat sparingly for what appears to be early stage mealy bug infestation. This palm looks quite anemic in it's current state and won't take much inclement weather or pest infestation to push it past life's threshold.

i already told my mom we should fire them because they’ve broken many other things and other plants before but she doesn’t want to because they’re cheap. like yeah they’re cheap for a reason… and yeah it looks pretty bad bc it didn’t take the transplant very well bc like a week after we got into the high 90s so it’s finally starting to grow out the bad fronds. the other one is much better looking luckily