Bill, I'm obviously very new to all this. However, we have several local lakes with lots of aquatic vegetation. It would be very easy to take the boat out and dig up some small pods of it to transfer to the pond to get it kicked off. Assuming that I take pictures of it and yall confirm that it would be a good candidate for the pond of course. Would that speed things up significantly? My concern is that if i have to wait a long time for aquatic vegetation to get going then by that time I will most likely already have BG in the pond and then when I dump in GS they will just be immediately gobbled up. Maybe I'm just underestimating how resilient they can be if they have the proper existing habitat though.