The coverage looks good, you don't want it overly dense right now. It will soon begin to tiller and spread and close up the gaps. It's normal for it to pout for a couple weeks, it's one of the most nerve-wrecking things about establishing KBG, it sits there and does nothing while you fret about what might have gone wrong. If you haven't applied nitrogen yet, this would be a good time to feed it.

 

Probably still in sprout and pout stage . Give it more time it'll break out any minute. My shaded areas broke out ( 30 days from seeding ) before the sunny areas . @g-man renovation thread he recommends start spoon feeding at 2 weeks post germination.

 

Don't worry. You have good coverage. The grass growing slowly is what's called spout and pout. It's when the grass is developing roots and tillering. It will happen with KBG. I would start spoon feeding N now and it will start thickening up and will start to grow faster if your weather isn't too cool.

 

Yep, feed it. It will take another week before it really starts going. Just keep mowing.

 

Looks pretty solid to me. Not really sure where you are time wise from seed down but my Mazama really took over at around Day 19 or 20. I had given it some N a few days before that. A few days after the N is when it seemed to get out of the Sprout and Pout.

 

It has been one month since I laid seed. I put down .33 lbs of N per 1000 today. Just making me nervous on whether it will be established enough to survive winter. It was low 40s here this morning already

 

Yes it will be fine

 

I think that's looking great bud. Nice work.

 

It has been one month since I laid seed. I put down .33 lbs of N per 1000 today. Just making me nervous on whether it will be established enough to survive winter. It was low 40s here this morning already

It is. You have been successful, congrats.

 

I have some Mazama in a mix growing in my backyard, and I also think you are in very good shape with respect to coverage. Growing bluegrass will shake every lawn obsession and doubt that you have. That's just part of it. That bluegrass will be worth it, though.

 

You'll be fine i think, mine looks similar and im on day 50ish at this point? And we are also getting high's of 50 for the foreseeable future. There's a few spots in mine that seem sparse, but there's a lot of plants so my hope is that they just survive the winter and should start growing more and spreading.

 

You're golden. That's going to be great next spring.

 

Second mow knocked out tonight, some areas had grown about a half inch and the blades seem to be widening out. Love the look so far, and the smell of pure kbg after mowing is much different then my mix in the back yard. I actually stopped mid mow after noticing.

 

How's it looking so far this year? I did a minor Reno last year with 91% TTTF, 9% KBG.... a few areas are a little thin, and a few areas that completely washed out, so I was looking at possibly using some Mazama as part of my overseed blend this fall.

Thinking:
Traverse 2SRP (25lb)
4th Millennium (25lb)
Bewitched (2.5lb - purchased as 5lb)
Mazama (2.5lb - purchased as 5lb)

 

@Deke
Hows the Mazama looking?

 

@Deke

Thought I'd bump this and see how the spring and summer you Mazama held up.

 

@Deke

Thought I'd bump this and see how the spring and summer you Mazama held up.

Grass is looking really really good mid summer. It's a deep green and very thick. Had to upgrade from my electric mower to a Honda 200. Only issues now is a ring of poa a around an old tree stump that I had no clue was under the top soil. "Bad" news is we are putting in an offer on a fixer upper on 5 acres, which should go through in the next couple of weeks. So soon I will have to say good bye to my grass and suffer the rest of the year with a crappy yard. But it will take me from 6000 sq ft of lawn, up to anywhere from an acre maybe three if I can get it cleared out.

 

Have any pictures you can share? Putting down 100% Mazama in my backyard next weekend!

 

Have any pictures you can share? Putting down 100% Mazama in my backyard next weekend!

I will get some tonight when I get home. Has some white chunks of caulking in it so try to ignore that.

 

Have any pictures you can share? Putting down 100% Mazama in my backyard next weekend!

Here is my Mazama thread if you want to see some more pics. https://thelawnforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12747&start=120.

Pics don't really do it justice. I've been very impressed with it.

 

 

 

Finally got around to taking some pictures today. The poa a is pretty vicious in that generalized area. Never noticed it last year with the no mix. Mowed at 1 in Friday evening. Should of mowed tonight but instead I painted the house.

 

Have you ruled out Poa Triv?
That seems a bit..."dense" to be pure Poa A, but thats just me...

As someone whose yard went from

To 4 months later

To this about 2 years later

I'd hate to see someone else have it happen to them by not just being proactive and biting the bullet with glyphosate.
If i had by the 2nd pic(instead of trying to use heavy Tenacity) i could have just had a few 5x5 foot dead spots to reseed, instead I had to wipe out the entire 1k sqft.
Not saying thats what you have necessarily, but you should make sure your positively identifying it.

 

My Mazama almost 1 year after seed down.