Initiating an explosion with the Shatter effect

Guys thanks again for all your help. Now I am trying to create an explosion with a shatter effect. Problem is when I apply the shatter effect to my Shape I created, it assumes I want the explosion to occur as soon as the video starts to play. Actually I would like the explosion to occur a little later in the video, maybe about 25 frames into the video. I can not find a setting to key frame the start of the explosion. Is there a key frame for this and I am not seeing it? I even tried moving the shape out in the timeline so it does not appear until about the 25 frame, but this does not work either.
Thanks again
Let me know

Like I said previously "Problem is when I apply the shatter effect to my Shape I created, it assumes I want the explosion to occur as soon as the video starts to play." This is not what I want. I need a key frame to initiate the explosion about 25 frames into the clip. The physics controls the location on the screen and the direction of the explosion, but to my knowledge it does not control the timing of the explosion. I have viewed Lynda tutorials repeatedly.
The tutorials make it look like it is possible to start an explosion later in the timeline but there is no explanation of how he did it. It looks like the explosion should occur when the "Shape" occurs in the time line, but After Effects is not working that way for me.

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