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title: "Can someone please tell me what this white fluffy stuff is on my…"
description: "Can someone please tell me what this white fluffy stuff is on my cactus"
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author: "Stormy"
published: "2024-02-09T03:18:06.845087Z"
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# Can someone please tell me what this white fluffy stuff is on my…

_Publié par Stormy le 2024-02-09_

Can someone please tell me what this white fluffy stuff is on my cactus

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## 4 commentaires

### 3therea1 a commenté le 2024-02-09

Could be a really bad mealybug infestation but Im not entirely sure. How long has it been like this?

#### Stormy ha respondido el 2024-02-09

I’m not entirely sure I kinda forgot about it and then came back to check on it and those were there.

#### 3therea1 ha respondido el 2024-02-09

Ok, it could either be mealies or scales. Either way, it definitely looks like some sort of infestation. Try getting a q-tip and rubbing alcohol (70%) and rub/scrape off what you can. Then I would spray your cactus down with insecticidal soap (there are homemade remedies as well) and see how that goes. It’ll definitely be a weeks-long treatment as you may need to do those two steps over and over again, but that’s what I would do.

### Stormy a commenté le 2024-02-09

Ok thank you so much

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