With the increasing of the temperatures and retention of the cooler night time temps we are experiencing a flush in the growth of the turf. The warmer temperatures are perfect for the warm-season turf (bermudagrass) while the cooler night time temperatures are perfect for the cool-season turf (Poa Triv) thus allowing both turfs to grow aggressively at the same time.
We first noticed this flush of growth on this last Friday when the clipping yields increased from half a basket to three baskets per green. So what does this mean? Well it means that for a period of time until we can control the growth that the greed speeds will greatly decrease, maintenance practices will slow down due to increased clipping removal and overall playability will slightly decrease.
On Saturday we smooth rolled the greens and lowered the height of cut of the turf to 0.090 of a inch. The next day on Sunday we applied Primo (a growth regulator) to our greens, however, this will take about a week to take effect. On Monday we brought out the heavy roller onto the greens along with replacing all the bedknives of our mowers to improve the quality of the cut.
All of the things will help but we will not be able to address the problem until after the Tapestry when we can finally verticut and thin the turf. This flush of growth normally occurs in March, however, this year with the temperatures remaining cool in March this flush did not occur until now. This is normal and will be back to normal soon.
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