On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 16:54:17 -0600, dpb wrote:

On 01/06/2016 4:43 PM, OFWW wrote:
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The last couple years here we have had two growth seasons each year,
literally, played havoc with the veggies, but the tree's seemed to
handle it fine. It would be nice to core the tree and then core it
again just to see or verify what the tree did for those years. It
isn't common, but it is not unusual.
...

I'd venture _most_ didn't actually go through two fully dormant cycles
and wouldn't show up a second ring therefore but it would be interesting
to do a core sample, indeed...

Normally I wouldn't have thought so either, but we had a short hot
winter followed by some quick freezes, all the trees that were budding
and growing fruit, lost all their fruit an some leaves, then a mild
winter for a couple weeks, and then a repeat of the cycle. I was
thinking that the poor trees and plants must be getting confused
because or the strange weather sequences.

I had a great laugh through it all as the weather men and new people
were really hamming up the heat wave, and talking about the
seriousness of GW, and after a couple weeks of that going on the temp
dropped to below freezing then hovered down low and made them all look
a bit skittish for a while.