The ATC Doublecut with Micah Woods Asian Turfgrass Center

T-Jay Creamer joined me to discuss bentgrass & Poa annua (bent-Poa) management with a surprisingly low annual N rate, almost no use of PGRs, and no aeration (other than occasional needle tining) for more than two years. The results surprise me, and they may surprise you too.
We discussed this blog post about the turf speedo: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/turf-speedo-looks-like-this/
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In this episode, I discuss sixteen year old bentgrass greens that have also gone sixteen years without  P fertilizer. The greens are also free of Poa annua. Then I discuss how fertilizer recommendations made from soil tests are a lot more precise if the time duration over which the fertilizer is being recommended is considered explicitly. And I explain why, when measuring #ClipVol, you will get value from annual totals too.
P & Poa with Bob Raley is this post https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/no-poa-after-16-years/ and this video https://youtu.be/s90tIstilbwThe time component of #MLSN post is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/the-time-component-of-soil-test-interpretation/The annual clipping yield post is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/the-annual-and-year-to-date-yield/ and links to this video https://youtu.be/8DdekceL9jE
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Jim Huntoon joined me from Horry-Georgetown Technical College to discuss overseeding and the hows and whys of this common practice on warm-season turf that goes dormant in winter.
We discussed these two blog posts:- https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/optimum-overseeding-time-windows/- https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/zoysia-beats-bermuda-on-some-greens/
You can see my slides and handout from the Palmetto GCSA Education Meeting at this link: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/seminar/palmetto-2024/
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Maggie Reiter joined me to reminisce about the grasses one can find at the back of the 7th green at Pebble Beach Golf Links, to consider soil test results for lawns, what the biggest problems are on lawns and whether solutions exists, and much more.
Maggie is a Data Scientist at Sunday, https://www.getsunday.com/The blog post with the photo of grasses at Pebble Beach is: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/flights-turf-photos/We discussed EPA ecoregion maps, which you can read more about at https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/ecoregions and can see the especially detailed ones at https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/level-iii-and-iv-ecoregions-continental-united-statesThe original MLSN guidelines, first presented at the Bouyoucos Conference in 2012, are available at: https://www.paceturf.org/PTRI/Documents/201408_stowell_woods_mlsn.pdfMLSN calculations for micronutrients are here: https://www.paceturf.org/memberedition/mlsn-for-micronutrientsThe Carrow et al. article from 2004 on SLAN ranges is available at https://www.files.asianturfgrass.com/clarify3.pdfSoil test lab tour at Brookside Labs: https://youtu.be/PyL2bfdiBdE
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This is a follow-up to the episode last week when I mentioned that I was looking at snow outside, that the light would be ample for growth, but the temperatures were below freezing and thus temperature was limiting the growth. I discuss the new blog post that shows those light data.
An example of ample DLI: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/an-example-of-ample-dli/
The USGA Green Section Record with the fine podcast, frost research, Pat Jones article, and much more: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/breaking-the-ice/
The  @TurfgrassEpistemology  episode with Travis Shaddox on K and soil testing: https://www.youtube.com/live/aSZwz75aIig?si=Ip9JcBo41Poy_Ras
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The growth potential converts air temperature to a 0 to 1 (or 0 to 100%) scale. Of course, there are a lot more things that affect actual growth, including light, nitrogen, and water. I discuss these and why I'm not so convinced that adding a light factor to GP makes it more useful.
The blog post discussed here is https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/light-and-gp-again/
This calculator finds full sun PPFD and DLI for any location on any date: https://asianturfgrass.shinyapps.io/ppfd_by_time/
Park Nobel's environmental productivity index is described in this article: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.2307/1938497
It's also mentioned in his text book Physiochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128191460/physicochemical-and-environmental-plant-physiology
Travis Shaddox's Turfgrass Epistemology channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TurfgrassEpistemology
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