Thanks to all the advice (hormone powder, vermiculite, pop 
bottles) that has flodded my mind from my favorite gardening 
conference, I now find myself fighting a plethora of plant life 
sprouting like the forest of hairs on my head in my most 
imaginative dream. 
I have purchased a tub of chemical, one of theose N-P-K things, 
and am using an old hair shampoo bottle for initial feeding.
My current ploy is to fill the bottle with water and let stand 24 
hrs, then disolve a small teaspoon of chemical, and use the 
nozzle-like cap of the shampoo bottle to direct small jets of 
solution to the surface of the soil of the newly-potted plantlet. 
Introducing the measure of powder to the bottle is a hazard - 
usually some of it spills over the lip, and I *hate* wasting it. 
It seems to me that a better solution (sorry!) might be to 
dissolve the entire small tub of chemical into a separate bottle, 
and measure out a fixed liquid amount from THAT bottle to be 
diluted into my squirter bottle. 
Only question is: Will my holding the chemical in solution weaken 
it in any way? I would think not, it's just a chemical, right? 
And in solution form it's just as stable as in powdered form. 
Thanks for any hints, suggestions or tips.
Christopher.Greaves@CapCanada.Com    www.interlog.com/~cgreaves
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