It's been a while but just thought I would let you all know that I had purchased some pepper and tomato plants from Lowes today and decided to place only two plants on the heating pads. I'll let you know their progress compared to the others that are just on my planting shelf. I had to put all the plants in bigger containers because their roots were showing out the bottom of theirs. One tomato plant had flowering buds on it that I had to cut off because the plant is no where near strong enough to support tomatoes. Everything else I just put in more milk jugs and stuck on my shelf.