If you use the little jiffy peat pellets, just peal one and drop it unbroken into the water. One day to bottom. Don't break it up since being compressed it has all the air out and will ink more quickly. If using garden sphagnum, boil it and it will sink in a few days. Bill Shenefelt --------------- See http://www.aka.org/AKA/subkillietalk.html to unsubscribe