July 2010 « The Echinacea Project

Bags Please?

Not sure how many are needed, between the common garden and next to Hjelm house, could someone bag coreopsis palmata tops for me? My goal is to get 20 plants with two heads covered. That way I can self-pollinate one head and cross-pollinate another head.
Additionally, if Laura and Katie could check nice island across hwy 27 to see how far along the bagged psoralea is to flowering, that would be great also.
Attached is a picture of each plant.

hlh worksheets

allSpotsForPlugs_7July.xls

Plug Datasheet_Verification_07July2010_a.xls

files for planting plugs

plugPlantingInfoForKate.csv

emptySpotsForPlugs.csv

A/D data

Plug Datasheet_Verification_04July2010_a.csv

KG_site&trays.csv

orchids

yesterday a group of us had fun searching for orchids in the wet land prairie, that is until the mosquitoes found us. However we quickly recovered from the attack with an excellent meal and delicious chocolate bread pudding for desert. Here are a few pics from the day.

label document

rowPos_envLabels.docx

label info for Kate

This file, labelInfoForKate.csv, is for making new envelope labels.

03 July – row/position R data and csv files

I only need 680 positions/site, because the seeds will be in between the plug points. So attached is a .doc and an R file w/ the script to create 3 sites with ~680 positions in each. I have also attached the resulting .csv file, 3 columns “site”, “row”, and “pos”.

KG_row&pos_03 July.doc

KG_row&pos_03 July.R

KG_positions_03July.csv

Here’s the breakdown:
site breakdown.xls

Next steps:

Assign each new.env ids to a row and position. See file: sane3blocks.csv

Create labels.

Put labels on envelopes.

Assign each plug to a row and position (keeping in mind that they’re already randomized in the trays.)

Develop planting protocol.

Organize materials for planting.

Mow sites.

Plant.

July 2nd: Data for new labels

For creating new labels:
KG_newLabelData_02July.csv

KG_Purchased Seed EnvelopesWS.csv

Plug Datasheet_D-A_02July2010.csv

For verifying status of plugs:
Plug Datasheet_Verification_02July2010.xls

Seedling searches complete!

Today Josh and I searched the last two circles at Staffanson Prairie (SPP). Our last search centered on this focal plant:

We found 23 seedlings in the circles at SPP, bringing our grand total for this year to 74. In comparison, we found 29 seedlings in 2006, 135 in 2007, 239 in 2008, and 93 in 2009. That’s quite a lot of year-to-year variation!

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