Two years ago I did my first citrus T-buds. After a few weeks of tisssue healing, I untaped the graft area and checked it every day for buds beginning to swell. Seeing the first few start growing out was good, but one day I was surprised to see that a 1/4" long bud shoot was missing.....and slug slime led from the ground to the 6 foot high grafted former bud shoot. Well, what should I do to prevent more night slithering? I thought that if I taped a puffed-out plastic grocery bag to the lower trunk and sprayed a little ant and roach aerosol poison on the bag only, maybe the slugs would consider it to be a dead end street. It really worked then and since then in other grafted trees with vulnerable buds. Between the poison's stench and the puffy bag's other-worldly (to slugs) surface, my resident slug population shops elsewhere. I do give a new bit of spray every few days to make sure when uncovered new buds can't run and hide. I don't use store-bought slug bait, but this week I have picked up fallen mulberries and spread some of them around the base of 5 big pots with newly sprouting paw paw seeds. This week 2 of the prized variety 2" tall sprouts were 70% gobbled up, and once again slug slime trails displayed the path taken. I go out after nightfall with flashlight and quart bottle of potent citrus spray to squirt on the sweet-toothed slugs getting their fill of mulberry. The seedlings are safe when the mulberries are happened upon before the steep slither leading to seedling salad. Last, I overturn hiding spots in daytime to find and decommission sleeping slugs.