Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 11:36 am
Looks real good Ray, your having a much much better year with the opuntias than me. Several plants including my biggest Humifusa were decimated this year by slugs.
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They've nibbled and disfigured pretty much everything on my best humifusa I can't stop them, there are hundreds if not thousands of the slimeballs around. I'm picking 30-50 on wet mornings around the gardens and those are just the ones I can find. They appear to largely ignore the ortho slug bait I put out. The weather the last few days is not helping I'm seriously just about ready to quit with opuntias in the ground, I'm already in the process of moving smaller ones into pots on the deck.RayC wrote:I should have known better then to say anything about slugs not doing a lot of damage, checked this morning and found a hole straight through on new pad. I found the culprit or its sibling, this one won't do any more damage.
Hey Andy,Andy_CT wrote:They've nibbled and disfigured pretty much everything on my best humifusa I can't stop them, there are hundreds if not thousands of the slimeballs around. I'm picking 30-50 on wet mornings around the gardens and those are just the ones I can find. They appear to largely ignore the ortho slug bait I put out. The weather the last few days is not helping I'm seriously just about ready to quit with opuntias in the ground, I'm already in the process of moving smaller ones into pots on the deck.RayC wrote:I should have known better then to say anything about slugs not doing a lot of damage, checked this morning and found a hole straight through on new pad. I found the culprit or its sibling, this one won't do any more damage.
yep, from the looks of them you wouldn't think they even went through winter.Andy_CT wrote:Looks good, its always interesting to see phaeacanthas stay fairly plump throughout the winter.