I took the painful steps of culling the weak ones, and still had 326 left. I raised them all the best I could. By the end of June, I had delivered hundreds of plants to friends in four different states along the East Coast. I kept just 18, which provided me with harvests of tomatoes, bell peppers, jalepenos, serranos, and cilantro well into the fall. Here are the 9 products I used to grow hundreds of plants during my first try at seed starting.