I have been using peat pots for about a year now. I love them. I do not grow from seed, however roots are roots. The beauty of the peat pot is you do not have to remove the plant from the peat pot. You plant the whole peat pot into the new container. The peat pot needs to be moist in order for the roots to break through the bottom & side walls of the pot. Also, most peat pots have a small circle on the bottom that is supposed to be for drainage. Very often, the machine making the peat pot does not completely remove the circle and you get no drainage. The first thing I do is use a pencil to finish breaking out the circle in the bottom of the pot and most often that is where I spy my roots after cloning. I hope this helps.