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DeadPhan



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Would water deter slugs?
#23399839 - 07/01/16 02:48 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I was wondering if maybe running a soaker hose very low at night time in a patch might deter slugs. The soaker hoses I use just kind of trickle and can trickle less if pressure is down. Do you think maybe this might deter slugs?
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woodrow
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: DeadPhan]
#23399859 - 07/01/16 03:02 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Slugs love water. Diatomaceous earth is the usual deterrent.
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tump
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: woodrow]
#23399889 - 07/01/16 03:31 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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No water is there baby making space. Kill them with salt and beer. Also if you can find there nest sat it on fire. Where there are slugs there are rolly pollys, sivirfish, and spiders. All super bad in your grow area.
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DeadPhan



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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: tump]
#23399893 - 07/01/16 03:39 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I know they love water. But what about falling water? Like constant water. They Def like moisture but, getting rained on?
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DeadPhan



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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: tump]
#23399895 - 07/01/16 03:41 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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tump said: No water is there baby making space. Kill them with salt and beer. Also if you can find there nest sat it on fire. Where there are slugs there are rolly pollys, sivirfish, and spiders. All super bad in your grow area.
I've tried salt and beer. Never worked. Gonna maybe try copper. I never have issues with anything but slugs and those tiny beetles. The beetles can be bad but nothing in comparison to slugs.
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LocN9ne
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: DeadPhan]
#23400178 - 07/01/16 07:24 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Salt didn't work? That's odd.
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: LocN9ne]
#23400182 - 07/01/16 07:25 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Them fuckers hate salt. And I love watching them melt in it.
I think he means that the rain washed it away or something.
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DeadPhan



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I'm sure salt would work but I'm just looking for a more permanent solution. As for the size of certain patches and the fact the patch needs water in dead of summer I'd imagine salt would wind up getting pricey and all around tedious making a ring around a patch daily. I just noticed last night as I had watered a patch where slugs were all over. The patch ain't even pinning. Burried grain and manure mix and they still all over it. Well after watering with hose they disapated for a bit as if the drops of water deterred them. So I was wondering if at night if a constant flow might keep them away. Just curious. I gather otherwise I'm a just get copper tubing.
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CosmoKramer
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: DeadPhan]
#23400759 - 07/01/16 10:59 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I always wondered if spraying a vinegar water solution would deter them but never tried. Obviously if they are directly on the patch you couldn't do much with it there.
Similar thread here about remedies: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/23376378
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Supalemonhaze
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: DeadPhan]
#23400792 - 07/01/16 11:10 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Copper isn't a surefire way to protect your patch either. They prefer not to go over it but will if they really want to.
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: CosmoKramer]
#23400812 - 07/01/16 11:17 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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or pre-1982 pennies. they are like 94% copper. i was thinking about trying this. but yeah, it's not a 100% certain solution.
my spent cake patch always get eaten. i know there are some slugs around there, but there are also tons of beetles, roly-polys, and ants. more stuff too, but ant think of any more this second.. not sure what is eating the fruits most, though.
they eat almost all of them. i havent gotten to harvest a totally unaffected fruit yet. i actually have ended up just leaving them to spread spores, since they are all half eaten. then i just cut them at the base, and leave the base, and then bury the fruits in my coir/verm pile, which is a freaking continent of roly-polys and beetles now.
Is diatomaceous earth the stuff that cuts them up, or something? the organic stuff? or eco-friendly or whatever? might try something like that. its getting to where its almost pointless to keep burying stuff there, since it all gets eaten.
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: mupetmower]
#23400888 - 07/01/16 11:37 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I didn't even get to see outside fruits, gnats crashed my indoor party long before the spent/contaminated subs colonized enough to reach the surface. Had to get rid of every square inch of compost to get rid of them. It was an utter gnat magnet.
I've been meaning to try these mosquito nets I bought to cover my pots with to keep the bugs out but I never got around to doing it.
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DeadPhan



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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: mupetmower]
#23400914 - 07/01/16 11:44 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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About to change my sleep schedule so that I'm up all night long just monitoring the shit. Things like diatomaceous earth and salt won't cut it with my patches. It would but would be costly. I gather I can just put a ring around patches of pins but when the pins are popping up like gangbusters not so much. I gather I'll go with copper as a detergent and try to monitor the best I can
Although, I just tho7gh. What about wire connected to a power source. Like a car battery that has an actual charge.
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Supalemonhaze
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Re: Would water deter slugs? [Re: DeadPhan]
#23400921 - 07/01/16 11:47 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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You could try, I don't think they would like that very much. I read that it's not due to electrical charges that the slugs hate passing over it, it's just a type of material which they dislike or something. But a car battery ought to get the hair stand on their backs, so to speak.
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