[Mod Request] Pine tree ideal temperature

[Slye_Fox]

Would it be possible for someone to change the idea growing temp of the Pine tree, so it grows in the winter but is semi-dormant in summer?

[Szara]

Apparently in the environments where pine trees are meant to grow, in the real world, they grow the most during the warmer seasons in their respective ideal biomes. Too warm and too cold both adversely affect growth about the same once you depart the optimal growing temperature, but trees tend to thrive in places where as much of the year as possible is their ideal temperature.

This study was performed with the loblolly pine. The full research paper is available here:
https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/ja_nedlo001.pdf

Depending on if your colony is in a temperate or colder region your area may even have a temperature that is ideal year round, though a rainforest could certainly be too warm year-round for most pines. The species of pine should also be considered, the Scotch pine trees are happy down to -50F, but those same ones do poorly in warm climates. The lolloby pine thrives in warm and even hot humid regions, and the stone pine in warm regions with cooler summers.

So there's a pine tree that is generally happy in most biomes you'll find, except, I'm fairly sure, deserts. I'm also not sure if anyone has ever tried planting a lolloby pine in a rainforest before.