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Puna Bud

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Just get some Slug bait/killer. No sense in fooling around! It could cost you dearly if you do. If you don't feel good about "Snail Bait", you can always put "Rock Salt" around your plants. This will work too.

Snails here on the Big Island is a big problem. They are huge here, and they are everywhere! Someone many moons ago introduced these buggars to Hawaii for culinary purposes. Once the entrepuneure realized that his snails weren't what the islands were looking for he left....but left his experiment behind to flourish in the Hawaiian environment. So to this day I have to keep the Escargot at bay with Snail bait/killer.
 
Gilfman

Gilfman

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ehh doesnt salt = harm to plants? does anyone know any good homemade slug and snail control stuff???
 
campzoe

campzoe

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i doono wat ate my plant it was started out the leafe started to get yellow and liek geting hols and cracking.and liek dots on it that was on the 1st set of leaves it got got more shit was eating it befor it was sprouting or w/e it got liek 9 inchest tall i killed it lol
 
Gilfman

Gilfman

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Skitzotic said:
If somethings eating your plants quickly chances are its slugs or snails.
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i take it you REALLY REALLY HATE slugs and snails .. lol .. i'm sure i will too .. i tell ya what .. keep a thing of salt on you and if you ever see a slug or snail sprinkle some of that of it .. its funny ..
 
weedyoo

weedyoo

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yes they suck this year been hand picking

Now, some of the ways to get rid of these creatures are as follows:

  • Keep all decaying matter cleaned out of your garden beds. Clear all dead leaves from the garden.
  • Cultivation of the soil will help kill hibernating slugs and eggs.
  • Remove slugs and snails by hand. If you are too finicky, use chopsticks. If you get the slime on your fingers or hands pour a little cheap white vinegar on your hands and wash
    it off with lukewarm water.
  • Squish or drown the slugs in ajar of soapy water.
  • Install barriers of 2-inch or wider copper stripping around plants and flower beds. Do
    this only after you have removed all slugs around the plants.
  • Set yeast traps in troublesome beds. Sink a shallow jar so the top is flush with the ground. Fill the trap with beer, regular or nonalcoholic to 1/2 inch from the top and wait for the slugs to fall in and drown. A recent survey on what kind of beer slugs like best tells us they prefer Budweiser, Bud light, Coors light, Michelob, Old Milwaukee. Pretty good taste buds huh?
  • For those who don't want to waste beer, try adding 1/2 tsp. baking yeast and 1 tbsp. sugar to the water in each trap.
  • Minimize the moist and cool spots in your garden. Water lawns and gardens in the morning. These guys are nocturnal and can slither better on wet grass and soil.
    Some people use salt, but this is cruel; sure it's fun watching them bubble into nothing, but crushing them is quicker and more humane.
  • Use the lint from your dryer as a barrier around your seedlings and plants.
  • Cedar, oak bark chips or gravel chips will irritate and dehydrates them.
  • Try a barrier line of powdered ginger.
  • Use wood ashes as a barrier, but try not to let the plant come into contact with the ashes.
  • Shingles or sandpaper after you get rid of the slugs in the area. Lay a barrier of these around the area to keep slugs out.
  • Spread well crushed eggshells around the plants.
  • Sprinkle a line of lime around the plants.
  • Talcum powder or diatomaceous earth work as barriers too. The diatomaceous earth will kill earthworms though and you do not want to breath it.
  • Copper strips or pennies around the plant works too. The metal ions in copper repel slugs.
  • A mulch made of stems and leaves of strong smelling herbs like wormwood, mints,
    tansy, lemon balm helps keep them out.
  • Hair and fur can be used as a barrier to entangle slugs.
  • Oak leaves, lettuce and cabbages can deter slugs, so does seaweed if you have access to some. Cook the cabbage leaves until soft, drizzle some butter or lard over them. Place them in slug prone areas. Within several hours the leaves will be swarming with slugs and you can destroy them.
  • Coffee grounds, Epsom salts, builders' sand, nut shells and cocoa hulls may also be tried.
  • Grape juice can be used in the same way as beer traps. Slugs really love grape juice.
  • Some plants slugs generally steer clear of: Artemisias, daylilies, Fresia, Lemon balm,
    Red cabbage, alyssum, Azaleas, Daffodils, Grapes, Mint, Lungwort, Rosemary, Red oak
    leaf lettuce, Basil, Evergreens, Corn, Fennel, Cosmos, Chard, Foxglove, Hibiscus, Ivy Swedish in particular, parsley, sages, tansy, pumpkin, sunflowers, chicory and endive.
  • Some predators of slugs include: ground beetles, particularly carabid beetles, turtles, toads, frogs, lizards, rove beetles, salamanders, lightening bug larvae, garter snakes, and especially most birds. The appeal factor to all these creatures is the fact that slugs are pure protein. Yummy
 
SquirrelGod

SquirrelGod

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Lol, couldn't you just put a large circle of salt around your plant? I mean snails hate salt right, or is that just a myth? I put this bug repellent around the area I grow outside, haven't seen a bug or anything for that matter ever close to my plant, I'm just worried about deer, and rabbits...
 
Skitzotic

Skitzotic

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Fuckin Slugs!!!! I just ripped 4 of them fuckerz off my plant. There eatin the bottom leaves to shiiiiiit. Im gonna go buy some real slug shit today.
 
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Tedis

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I planted my weed in a place with a lot of ants. Ants usually kill slugs and snails but make no damage to the plant.
 
Skitzotic

Skitzotic

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Ok, well i wrapped tinfoil and copper around the stock. And put some shit down i bought at walmart. And so far so good
 
Gilfman

Gilfman

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i couldn't find any copper wire around my house .. i was gonna coil it and put it in a ring around my plants
 
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