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06-22-2007, 05:44 PM
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I received these pics from a customer today, let me know what you think happened, then I will provide some more info.
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06-22-2007, 05:46 PM
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Is there a way to post more than 1 pic in a post?
Here's another:
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06-22-2007, 05:47 PM
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and another:
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06-22-2007, 05:49 PM
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I have more, but this will be the last one for now.
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06-22-2007, 06:14 PM
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Isee some tire marks. From these pictures this looks like a bad case of chemical burning from fertilizer or weed spray
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06-22-2007, 08:16 PM
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looks like fert burn to me.
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06-22-2007, 11:24 PM
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No weed spray, 2 different formulations of fertilizer, 2 different applicators. 1 very experienced, 1 rookie.
Fertilizer is all slow realease, in fact, the worst areas had Nature Safe 15-3-8 applied, which I have yet to see any fert burn so far at all from. Not even sure if it is possible.
No other opinions?
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06-22-2007, 11:42 PM
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Judging by the green turf where the tree casts it's shadow, I'd say you got some of the same heat we got, and the irrigation system wasn't turned on to water it - so the turf went dormant anywhere there was a bit of stress (tire marks) or direct sunlight all day.
That's my guess.
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06-22-2007, 11:58 PM
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Yes, we have had a lot of heat, low humidity and a short term becoming a long term drought as of late.
Personally, I think you're on to something Jeff.
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06-23-2007, 01:33 AM
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It's lack of water.
Have them soak it like new sod every three days and it will come back.
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06-23-2007, 02:19 AM
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Looks like summer dormancy to me.
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06-23-2007, 11:37 AM
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That was my frist thought as well. The obvious tire marks could be a sign that you have a lot of compaction there too which would cause the whole thing to happen faster. Aerating wouldn't hurt in addition to watering heavily.
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06-23-2007, 01:30 PM
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Looks like lack of water to me. I've had sod go brown like that, but it came back.......slowly. Water the hek out of it, but with the heat wave we had, it doesn't seem to be able to water enough. Trying to get seed to germinate has been impossible for the past few weeks. Hopefully this cool spell were having here will get things caught up a little
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06-23-2007, 04:39 PM
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I am sure the dry period has a lot to do with it but I still say that the fertilizer is the root cause. A lawn will burn much easier from fertilizer if it is already stressed from heat and drought or it will also burn more from dryness if there are high applications of fertilizer stressing it. Those tire tracks are a sure sign of stressed grass.
Also looking at the burning you can almost see where the fertilizer has been spread heavily from turning at the end of a run with the spreader still on and in places where the applicator has gone over the same area several times to avoid obstacles
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06-23-2007, 05:21 PM
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if you look in the 3rd picture where that sprinkler is going in the background it doesnt look that bad, i would say that its dry and going into dormancy or dying
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