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Can seeds germinate at room temperature?

I am planting some vegetables for the garden from seed. Can they germinate at room temperature? Some of the seeds are from the Cucurbitaceae family, and some are a variety of heirloom tomatoes, an some are hot peppers. How will the germination rates be affected by planting them at room temperature? I have an incubator that can keep them at about 80 degrees F, but it is not big enough to hold all of the planted seeds! THANKS!

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1. If it's comfortable for you, then it's comfortable for them. You can kick that heat down to somewhere between 75F and 78F and start off with the hot peppers having priority space. All of the others will be fine at a comfortable room temperature. I start all of my hot peppers and tomatoes on top of the refrigerator with no additional heat and they germinate just fine.
2. Yes. Keep them damp and in the dark. But not to warm. Plant them in there own little pots as soon as you can with plenty of South Western Sun. Don"t let them dry out and plant them outside in well preprared soil as soon as it's safe from any late spring Freeze. They should be fine.
3. The will germinate just fine at room temperature.
4. Actually the only ones that would benefit from the incubator are the hot peppers. All the rest will do fine, in fact prefer, room temperature. Even the peppers will germinate at room temps but will sprout faster when the soil is near 80° f.