Well, I don't need a lot of plants for my garden so I don't use the multi-cell trays. I go ahead and plant pepper and tomato seeds in 12, 16, or 20 ounce styrofoam cups. I plant two to three seeds per cup and thin either by snipping the undesired seedling(s) or gently digging up the seedling I don't want in the cup and replanting in another cup. Having them in the cups allowed me to grow them on to transplant size without needing to "pot up" to a larger container.
But, I'm growing only a few plants...I ended up with eight pepper plants and thirteen tomato plants in the garden. I gave away a couple of pepper plants and tomato plants and have four tomato plants growing in containers. Oh, and I ate a few of the thinned pepper seedlings
. All total I ended up with around 30 plants that I grew out in cups to transplant size.
There's lots of folks that use the multi-cell trays for germination, I guess I just don't have the patience or whatever to do the potting-up, etc., that that involves.
When you see all those little green heads start popping up from the potting soil you're gonna be hooked on starting from seed....yep, hook-line-and-sinker!!!
Have fun with it!!!!
Ed
