Scale on stem disease

Does anyone know if this is scale on the stem or what it is? Does it hurt the plant or is this normal? How do you get rid of it? It starts near the base and moves up the stem.

80 views and no replies? Does anyone else have this on the stem of their plants?

ive had scaly-ness o the base of huge bushes, but that's from stretching and overgrowth. the sign of a overly healthy plant. but urs isn't exactly the same, the scales on my plants only appeared on the bottom of the plant.

Anyone else ever seen anything like this? Could it be a fungus? This strain has had PM and wonder if this is the PM on the stem? Any ideas?

No way that's PM, I've never seen it like that.. All I ever get is like maryjaneslave said when the plant stretches, it basically sheds the out layer off so it gets bigger. But it doesn't look like what you got..

Are you sure it's not just what's left of the cotyledons?

BygonEra said:

Are you sure it's not just what's left of the cotyledons?

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When have you ever seen cotyledons do that to a plant?

my plants stem is like that, its fine

nova1992 said:

my plants stem is like that, its fine

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I was wondering if others had this on the stems. It is only on certain strains and just want to make sure it is not a fungus or desease. Anyone else have this stuff on the stem of certain strains?

Nootnam said:

When have you ever seen cotyledons do that to a plant?

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With all my plants? Not as severe, more like this:

Yea I've had that and other round scaly looking bumps. Only once on some outdoor plants they ended up "recovering" after a few weeks

Those can be Scales (a small hard shelled insect) or it could be caused by high humidity or possibly a fungus. Whatever it is i would say that it is very rare indoors and i would not switch the photoperiod until is has cleared up.

Actually after looking for a bit longer my professional guess is it is some sort of epidermal fungus. Try spraying with Serenade.

Mr. Anomaly said:

Actually after looking for a bit longer my professional guess is it is some sort of epidermal fungus. Try spraying with Serenade.

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Have Actinavate and will give that a go but will probably pick up Serenade as a second treatment option. If it is some type of epidermal fungus wonder if anyone else has a thread on this attacking plants.

Serenade can be used as a soil drench as well!