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The ax murderer bit referred to the callous disregard for stray seedlings from the jugs. I tend to treat each individual little sprout as if it were a nugget of gold, each one to be nurtured and cherished.....until it goes out in the garden and goes belly up! I was NOT referring to any failures with particular plants. Sigh, don't ever ask me about Gerbera daisies......

Yeah, I'm going to try the vermiculite with the quick sprouting stuff. And I'm hoping that it will help reduce problems with fungus gnats, too. I have a couple of amaryllis bulbs that were plagued with gnats, and I just covered the entire top of the pot with a thick layer of fine bird gravel and watered with something (I forget now what it was) that was supposed to help get rid of them, and haven't had a problem since. But bird gravel gets expensive! So you think a nice thick layer of vermiculite on top of potting soil would be better than straight vermiculite?