Slugs in ontario son

Hey i have some slugs crawling on leaves leaving shitty slim ass trails and such. Slowly kiilling the plant. How can i safley rid the bastards>?

You can place a band of sheet copper around the base of the plant, then physically remove anything currently on there.

Slug bait works great for me . Or you can but a ring of sawdust around your plants it will help some they don't like the stuff it sticks to them .

Diatomaceous Earth works well.

sk'mo said:

Diatomaceous Earth works well.

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Whats diatomaceous earth?

A form of silica. It basically cuts the little fuckers all to shit. They don't like it. It's a powder, sold as 'Dio'.

Works for most soft-bodied insects (earwigs, aphids, ants, etc.), and is organic. It can be spread around the plant in a circle the same way one might try to ward off evil spirits . However after it rains you need to reapply, copper is better used this way. I apply it directly to the plant. All that said, I have only used Dio on plants like hostas and daisies, so I'm not sure of how it would affect your smoke if applied directly to the flowers.
Hope this helps.

^^^^^^^^^ Diatomaceous Earth or bands of copper work well. I use copper. You can find two foot lengths of copper tape on Ebay for a few dollars that will give the slugs a mild electrical charge. More than enough to repel them. Check out my grow, you can see how I did it step by step actually.

www.overgrow.com said:

^^^^^^^^^ Diatomaceous Earth or bands of copper work well. I use copper. You can find two foot lengths of copper tape on Ebay for a few dollars that will give the slugs a mild electrical charge. More than enough to repel them. Check out my grow, you can see how I did it step by step actually.

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Awsome thanks. i was looking though your thread and didnt find the step by step. Is it in your 2011 guerilla grow linked in your sig?

I have used this for years and have never had problems with slugs. The mesh expands as the plant grows so it does not get choked off.

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i live and grow in ontario aswel and had the same problem. had dumb slug like things crawling on them making nests i just picked them off by hand one by one after a few days havent seen any

thanks thats great, jus what i need . That mesh stuff. Jus a hunt where to find it now.. can you order right from that web site with paypal or somthing??

also somone mentioned cofee busted up beans... any one know any thing bout that if it will raise the PH or somthing.// and how to apply.. eg. mix around the stock in soil??

Growop101 said:

thanks thats great, jus what i need . That mesh stuff. Jus a hunt where to find it now.. can you order right from that web site with paypal or somthing??

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Yup just call them or use the web site

hey so you were saying in that other thread copperwire is fine?? i bought some so ima try to wrap some around tonight and make some snail hotels of death/ as well as sprinkle coffee grinds.. that sound ok??

So i set up beer traps and put copper down with coffee grounds to..... Seems to be workin no slugs.. but now i got white flie problems. Any way , i never found any slugs in the beer traps But all the beer was gone and there was like a million beer bug looking things in each trap. I litterally mean like millions.. Maybe the yellow and black beer bug looking things were eating the white flies now they all went for the beer and the white flies moved in fro my plants????