How to keep the slugs away from my plants ....

Im about to do like the hocus pocus movie and pour a salt ring around my plants so they cant get near them, they look like baby's but there all in my PLANTS !!!!!! HELPPPP!!!!

you basically answered your own q: salt

There's also copper. you can put a copper wire around ur plants and the slugs wont crawl over it.

small dish of beer. smell attracts them then they drown

doowmd said:

you basically answered your own q: salt

There's also copper. you can put a copper wire around ur plants and the slugs wont crawl over it.

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really? have you ever tried that

Old copper pennies is what I used when needed. don't use salt it kills soil .

copper works very well. you can get copper banding that is sold as snail and slug barrier. i found that the banding stayed on the surface better than wire especially when it is raining out. if you do go with wire then just make a half dozen loops and they will keep each other on the surface of the soil better.

Awesome guys...Thank you !!!!!!!

OMG I stepped out last night and the SLUGS ate all my 9 new seedlings!!!! AHhhh this is WAR!!!

drive said:

small dish of beer. smell attracts them then they drown

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yup make a beer moat . . . i cant spell but you know . .around your plants or your area. .. . . and then you will be good . .. . . for a few days

Buy some slug pellets and just surround your area with them, they eat em they die.

dude i am sorry do you have to get new seeds? thats another reason I bring em in at night

Slugs are slimy, they don't like abrasion. Sand, sand paper , glass or other granular sharp objects deter them. Of course slug bait works too.

I've tried slug traps, beer, crushed egg shells, sand from the beach (for the salt content), as well as a few other home remedies. None of them worked well.
Don't wait for the slugs to appear if they are in your area. Buy some good quality pellets and sprinkle a ring around your plants as soon as you put them in the ground (about a foot away from the stalks should do). A slug can munch clean through a seedling in one feeding so waiting for them to appear is the first mistake people tend to make.
Repeat every couple of weeks or after periods of heavy rain - more often if you have lots of very small plants and lots of slugs (keep an eye on the pellets and replace when you don't see them any more).
Be careful with things like beer. The smell can attract the slugs from a distance and lead them right to your plants - I know this is the idea but if they have to cross 10 feet of plants to get to the beer, they may stop for a snack along the way.
I've been mostly slug free for two years now and I live near the ocean where they are rampant.
I also like to take a piss several feet away from my outdoor plants when I visit them. Many wild animals shy away from the sent of human urine - we are surrounded by deer but they leave my plants alone.

My back yard looks like something from a witch craft movie ritual, I have crushed glass, a salt rectangle, because for right now I have 7 plants still standing (about a month old) and copper wiring every where, I looked for the Slug pellets but I work in the city and where I live a homedepot or lowes that has a outdoor gardening department is far (not a driver) but I'm coppin me a 40 OZ of beer on he way home lol gonna set out lil tray away from my plants. There eating all my plants (my flowers) ...not only my cannabis plants but I will not give up, im sproating more before this awesome sunshine leaves for the summer and I have to grow inside. Thanks guys!!!! by the way I HATE SLUGS!!!