Date: 02/09/2005

Number: 1

The milkweed is up in Maverick County! I went to the Cunningham Ranch on the
banks of the Rio Grande this past evening just about sunset and in our quarter
mile stretch we found 6 A. oenoethroides clumps up and thriving. Plants were
all from mature rootstock and varied in height from 3" to 5" with as many as
6 stems coming out of the ground in one place.

We weren't able to insert the probes there to get the ground temps, but in
the site I'm monitoring here a few miles away, they have been running: (6"
soil depth in continuous shade)

1-31-05 to 2-9-05 = 9.1c (48.34dF) (night time low) to 14.9c (58.82dF)
(daytime high).

During those 10 days we had 1.75" rain (1-31) and it has been continuously
overcast except for two days in which the sun came out briefly for a few
hours.

Maverick County, TX

Latitude: 28.5 Longitude: -100.5

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