Results from one of our summer trials

Hi,
I'm home sick today. Yesterday I woke up with a pounding headache and major fatigue, as in, sometimes it seemed like too much work just to roll over. I'm not sure what is the causal agent, or is it environmental stress? I don't think it's bacterial wilt. Either way, I feel like crap. Yesterday I stayed home and out-napped the cat, who is a champion napper, and accomplished very little.




After another nap-off this morning (I defeated the cat once again), I was feeling good enough to sit at the computer, but not good enough to haul my sorry butt to campus. So, I'm doing what bloggers all over the world do... sitting at my laptop in my jammies and slippers, with my hair still in bed-head mode. At least I'm not in my parents' basement.

SUMMER TRIAL INFO

I thought I’d share some results from one of our summer trials in creeping bentgrass. The study was conducted in a stand of A4 on a sand-based green. There were four “program” treatments that rotated through different products. Those details can be viewed at a higher zoom by clicking on the boxes below, and hit the back button to return to the main article:

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Now, here’s a list that shows all the treatments. The right-hand column shows the turfgrass quality as averaged across the whole season. Turf quality was based on color, density, uniformity, etc, but did NOT include disease (since disease is noted separately). 9 = optimum quality, 6 = minimum acceptable.

As noted in the table, programs 3 and 4 had some slight negative quality effects, presumably due to some growth regulating effects of the DMI fungicides that were applied in late June. The effects were subtle, and they don’t come across very well in a photo:

… but, there really was a slight off-color to those plots on one or two dates.
When it comes to dollar spot control, except for some trace amounts early on, the treatments all pretty much knocked disease down to zero compared to a peak of about 10% in the untreated plots. (click to zoom)



Hey, I just heard the garage door... I think my sweetie has come home for lunch. I bet he'll make some soup for me!

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