There are these little white/grey/brown things starting to form all over the stems of my plants.Click to view attachment Anyone know what they are?

I had something like that but more red colour, i scaped it of and it left a hole in the stem, when i took a macro photo i could see a couple of things that looked like eggs!! i got the lighter in there! never had a prop with it since or so far!

scale or mealey bug

Scale insects,

I think.....looks like you caught them before they got 2 bad, I would think any normal "bug clear" type of spray should dispatch them.

Have you seen any on the underside of the leaves ?

JOM

They dont seem to be on the leaves just the stems. Ive given all the plants a spray with some bug attack stuff so hopefully they wont do anymore damage. Thanks for the help guys