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   Last week I saw silver trails in my little greenhouse so i put Sluggo pellets in the suspected fig pots.  CRYYYYYYYY,  now those pellets are growing fluffy mold. The plants are not over-watered and I scooped out all the pellets I can see.  Does anyone know if this is harmful to my figlings?  The plants look OK.  So-far it is just the Sluggo pellets molding.
  Does anyone know if the spores might spread throughout my greenhouse ?
  Thank you for any info.  I havnt been able to locate an address for "Sluggo/ Certis USA",  customer service that will take questions. 
Thank you, Soni
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take it out of the GH, gently. once outside, scoop the molded object ever so carefully.. along with good few inches of soil and get rid of it. spray some peroxide and see it it comes back.. or you have an option of physan-20. i still have a bottle that i didn't even open in case of major mold outbreak in my study :) 
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  Thank you Pete.   I have the peroxide on hand and I think its a good idea to get have Physon-20 on hand if mold takes over. 
 I still havnt found any info online about Sluggo mold.



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The mold is growing on the baits because they are made from wheat or something like that. If you removed the baits then it will not come back.
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Hi,
Just remove the baits, it will be ok - I often have that baits problem when growing my tomatoes.
In the futur, put the new baits on the cement/ground of your greenhouse.
Now the harder part - be strong ... very very strong : take a beer, put two centimeters of that liquid in a cup near the trees ... Slugs will come for a drink and sink in it . Replace the beer every three days.
Put two other cups outside/around the greenhouse. Sorry for your beer :°°|
By the way, normally slugs are not a problem for the figtrees .
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Soni, if you still want to talk to some one about it call this  # 559-499-2100
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Hi,
Just remove the baits, it will be ok - I often have that baits problem when growing my tomatoes.
In the futur, put the new baits on the cement/ground of your greenhouse.
Now the harder part - be strong ... very very strong : take a beer, put two centimeters of that liquid in a cup near the trees ... Slugs will come for a drink and sink in it . Replace the beer every three days.
Put two other cups outside/around the greenhouse. Sorry for your beer :°°|
By the way, normally slugs are not a problem for the figtrees .


Why are you sorry about the beer? The slugs don't drink much of it, and it's basically just a homemade tequila! :D
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  Thanks Mike for the PH# and thanks to you all.  I called that # and they said basically what you all told me.  "The mold is because it contains wheat. It wont hurt the plants, and I could scrape it off in a few days and aply fresh Sluggo."    The things I'm learn here!     
  I'll share the beer with the slugs.[image]
 
 
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i hope those are cheap beers. i heard "life it too short to drink cheap beer", and "there is no beer in heaven, that's why we drink it here". but always wondered about feeding beer to slugs to drawn them. 
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Before I had my chickens I struggled to control those creatures... they had a party in my yard it was awful, I tried, hunting with flash light and scissors in hands, but that only got a few large ones... I got some with beer bait, they go in and drown in it.  I also used something called "last meal". it was very ugly looking like a black syrup. I put newspaper down and made a circle with this last meal...and it was disgusting, but then they were in the newspaper, so I put it all in the garbage.   However, I don't want to use these methods, so my chickens are doing a good job managing them. I still have a few here and there, coming in from my neglectful neighbours, but they will not live long here.. Hope you  find a solution.. they suck the life of young figs, as they lick the bark and deprive the plant.
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   I dont see and trails on the ground or the GH racks, but I did find a slug in a pot drain hole. They must travel up and down inside the pot and I'll have to kill them with bait on top. geeeez I hope they arent laying eggs in those pots.
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Hi, I live in Vt its a swamp on a mt,so in spring we have tons of slugs,I use beer, read what is in the slug bait, I would not want that near my trees or pets. Rex.
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Rex, I don't either, that is why i Lined where I would  use the last meal and I switched completely to other methods now. They live and hide in the holes, you lift the pots and will find them. Time to get a pet chicken and teach it to eat slug... mine love when I lift the containers, as their treat are there.
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Thanks Rex,  Your comment got me to do a more in depth search for Sluggo ingredients and all I found was NON toxic ingredients.  Then I found this artcle.  Sluggo is deceiving with false claims of non toxic ingredients.  It's the combination of these benign ingredients they use creates a product that is toxic to humans and animals.  This makes me MAD.  How can they get by with this?

http://www.cloudforest.com/cafe/gardening/warning-sluggo-toxic-for-people-and-wildlife-t3846.html
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SoniSoni, Merry Christmas! I too live in GA zone 7B/8A depending which map you are looking at. With all the constant rains we had this summer slugs were a real problem. They were so bad that they were crawling up my vinyl siding, and even over the window screens! Disgusting. My solution is to take a cheap plastic bottle, fill it with household ammonia....Parson`s is a widely available brand. Just one squirt of this takes care of the slug it hits. Drawback is you have to go out at night and catch them being active. While ammonia is probably not organic, it is less toxic than many of the slug baits and does break down harmlessly. My slug population is very much reduced, just not totally eliminated.Good Luck!!!
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Randy, It sounds a lot better than what I was doing this summer. I'd get up during the night and scoop them off the porch with a doggie scooper, and then flush them by the pan full. UGH.   There were nights there were so many slugs they looked like a horror movie.  LOL  I will definitely try ammonia spray.  I hope these cold nights are killing them back to believable numbers.
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