For me, I like the air and starting/potting mix temperature to be between 73 and 76 degrees for tomatoes.
Pepper plants are different - a lot of them like 80F+ soil temperature. I personally have never grown a pepper hotter than Datil - which is not considered a super hot, but 100,000+ Scoville Units is HOT to me. Anyway, I have read many times that the super hots need warmer than 85F soil/potting mix to germinate - and they take longer than usual. That's just what I've read though.
We have volunteer pepper and tomato plants every year.
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