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Can you apply the principles behind dendrochronology to estimate the age of a carrot?

Crazy post, I'll admit. My carrot has rings when I cut a cross section. Can I determine its age? I suppose it's age in growing days?
gpt
It doesn't work the same way. The reason trees have rings is that every growth season, the cambium of the stem/trunk will grow in a spurt and this will lead to a different colour, hence the rings. Carrot roots however 1) are grown over a single year in a continuous fashion 2) the rings in a carrot correspond to different tissue layers altogether, the cortex and the pith being the widest ones (there are a bunch of other ones, Google "dicot root layers"