[Chris LI]

Man, that looks great! :nod:

Have you found a Packers stencil yet? You know, football season is around the corner and you don't want to disappoint, right? :lol:

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

@Chris LI Not yet lol :lol:. May have to make my own :thumbup:.

 

[Wiley]

Thunderstorms tonight and cooler weather for the next 4/5 days forecasted. Decided to put down a half rate of the FAS (1oz/M of FS). Should hopefully do well with about 6 hours on the leaf before the rain hits.

Twilight picture from after mowing last night:

For Pete's sake!! That's looking really clean.

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

Thanks Wiley.

Did a preventative application of propiconazole again yesterday since it has been hot and humid (bad combo), may be my last app, but I might end up doing one more app of azoxy before it starts cooling off heading into fall, we will see. Looks like next week is supposed to be a bit cooler.

I plan to start working on my mother/brothers lawns soon as well (doing an overseed at my brothers and reseeding an area of bentgrass at my moms place, which I killed off over the last few weeks). Might rent an aerator to do their lawns which are pretty compacted and just hit my front lawn as well before my fall pre-emergent goes down. I mainly want to remove a little bit of material from the high area in my yard so I would be picking up the cores and the low areas can always get material added back later. Still debating if I want to try to add any material this year or just wait until spring (I have quite a bit going on with other projects around the house and the other two lawns so I may need to wait to do a full leveling project). May end up just getting a small load of top soil and doing a topdress on the low areas though, again we will see.

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

Applied 0.21 lbs N/M via AMS on Monday, plan to start spraying the PGR within the next few weeks as we move into fall weather. Still working on figuring out the GDD was thinking about 250 to start on 1-1.5" KBG, may be able to go to like 300 from what I've read but who knows.

 

[Wile]

Thunderstorms tonight and cooler weather for the next 4/5 days forecasted. Decided to put down a half rate of the FAS (1oz/M of FS). Should hopefully do well with about 6 hours on the leaf before the rain hits.

Twilight picture from after mowing last night:

Outstanding!

 

[lbb091919]

This is the table I use. It doesn't take HOC into consideration though.

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

@lbb091919 I believe 0.25oz/M is the rate for fairways (if I remember correctly) for a HOC of about 0.3"-0.5" ish. So I was planning to go a bit heavier than that to start, probably 0.3oz/M-0.35oz/M so maybe I should wait til about 280-290 GDD before reapplying based on this chart? I'm going to give it a shot soon and just see how it works, if I start noticing it growing rapidly before my next application, I'll adjust to a bit lower GDD for re-application.

 

[lbb091919]

Sounds like a plan. I was using the 0.25oz/M rate while cutting at 0.875" and liked it. I probably could've bumped it up to 0.3oz and been fine too.

 

[ReelWILawn]

I second the .25 fl oz rate. I've been using the .25 fl oz/M of T-Nex rate all season, except for the first app of the year where I did .125 Based on the weather, I've been hitting my GDD target of 280 (0c base) / 504 (32 F base) every 10-14 days. I like the surpression it's been given but does not totally shut it down - something I was concerned with during the summer. I may bump it up to .30 fl oz/M this fall but we will see.

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

Thanks for the input, I was just basing it off the label and HOC of 1-1.5", I think the 0.30oz/M rate is going to be the ticket but we will see how that interacts with the nitrogen blitz, hoping to see some good lateral growth still.

Dethatched the lawn today with the cooler weather we've been having just to thin it out a bit and get some airflow in the canopy. Actually pulled out a decent amount of material and it helped stand everything up and even out the cut, since there was a decent amount of long lateral blades that the reel was just pushing over rather than cutting.

 

[Chris LI]

Looks great! Nice to see it in its daytime glory! :thumbsup:

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

It's not thanking me for dethatching it at the moment but as Daniel Hibbert says, "two weeks of pain for two months of gain" … or something like that.

Decided to do an application of the sta-green 16-0-11 natural base fertilizer with humic and sea k to add another half pound of potassium (5lbs product/M). This gives me 0.8lbs of nitrogen, though mostly slow release. Figure it is best to do that now and then starting mid September I can go back to the AMS and see how that works out with the PGR.

 

[Green]

Interesting fert. Can you get a shot of the bag analysis? Can't find the details online, and am interested in it.

 

[ReelWILawn]

What is your review on the sun joe? I've been thinking about purchasing one to thin the lawn out in some spots as I prepare for top dressing.

 

[gatorguy146]

What is your review on the sun joe? I've been thinking about purchasing one to thin the lawn out in some spots as I prepare for top dressing.

I bought one for my reno and it far exceeded my expectations. Only issue I had is that I did all of the work in 95 degree heat, and that did cause the Sun Joe to overheat. I guess there is a temperature sensor in there somewhere, which shuts the machine off and it takes maybe 10 or 15 minutes to cool off before you can use it again. Not a big deal and might not even happen if you do the work in cooler weather. Anyway, I'm very with the machine. Interested to hear the OP's thoughts.

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

@Green sorry it is 16-0-10, not 16-0-11, but it is good stuff (slightly large on the prill size which is the only real drawback). I like that it had some extras like humic and sea kelp and the fact that it uses SOP as a potassium source (no MOP). I put the analysis and picture of the bag below so you can check out the ingredients.

EDIT: It was also only about 25$ at Lowes for a 25lb bag as well (compared to something like The Andersons 16-0-8 I was using previously which is about $38 for 18lbs).

@ReelWILawn the sun joe dethatcher/scarifier is great, never bogs down and does an awesome job. I mainly use the scarifier attachment as a verticutter and set the height just above the soil surface. But works just as good for the intended purpose of you set it lower. They had them on sale for like 50$ a few weeks ago, I thought about picking up a second one for that price lol.

 

[Green]

Thanks! Is that only from Lowes? I think that's their exclusive brand, right?

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

@Green that is correct.

 

[CaffeinatedLawnCare]

Aerated the lawn on Friday to help remove some material from that 'high' area, ended up doing a single pass over the entire lawn and then going back over the high area 2x. We got two days of nothing but rain afterwards and I put down my fall prodiamine application (0.185oz/M) to let the rain water it in (ended up getting about 0.4" of gentle rainfall, which was almost perfect).

Lawn looks like it is recovering nicely from the aeration/dethatching after the rain and fertilizer application from last week.







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