Educate me on iron
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46-0-0. As you know the 46 is nitrogen
Nitrogen promotes healthy leaf growth by encouraging the production of chlorophyll, which is a chemical vital to photosynthesis. Increase in chlorophyll enhances the green color you see.
However nitrogen can't do it alone.
Iron is essential in making chlorophyll. If your grass has little iron it won't be able to produce the amount of chlorophyll that the nitrogen has stimulated.
Nitrogen is the cook and iron is the ingredients. Adding more cooks in the kitchen will do little good without more ingredients.
If your soil is 7.5 ph or higher- very compact soil- or even high levels of phosphorus then your grass will have a reduced uptake of iron. No amount of fertilizer will make it greener. But by adding a leaf absorbed Chelated Iron ( or a slower granular iron) you will give the cooks in the kitchen all the ingredients they need. (So to speak)
Resulting in a darker green grass.
Adding iron is not just for Bermuda or warm season grasses. All turf grasses can benefit.
1 pound of Nitrogen is 1pound of nitrogen. Weather it's 46-0-0 or 21-0-0 fast acting Ammonium Sulfate or 10-10-10
We can also talk about PGR and how that results in greener grass as well.
Basically let have another analogy.
If you have 1,500 people in a hot gym How smelly do you think it would be?
and then shrink the gym to the size of a classroom. Now how smelly?
That's what PGR does to Chlorophyll. It packs them in tighter making the room smaller and making the green even greener.
Nitrogen promotes healthy leaf growth by encouraging the production of chlorophyll, which is a chemical vital to photosynthesis. Increase in chlorophyll enhances the green color you see.
However nitrogen can't do it alone.
Iron is essential in making chlorophyll. If your grass has little iron it won't be able to produce the amount of chlorophyll that the nitrogen has stimulated.
Nitrogen is the cook and iron is the ingredients. Adding more cooks in the kitchen will do little good without more ingredients.
If your soil is 7.5 ph or higher- very compact soil- or even high levels of phosphorus then your grass will have a reduced uptake of iron. No amount of fertilizer will make it greener. But by adding a leaf absorbed Chelated Iron ( or a slower granular iron) you will give the cooks in the kitchen all the ingredients they need. (So to speak)
Resulting in a darker green grass.
Adding iron is not just for Bermuda or warm season grasses. All turf grasses can benefit.
1 pound of Nitrogen is 1pound of nitrogen. Weather it's 46-0-0 or 21-0-0 fast acting Ammonium Sulfate or 10-10-10
We can also talk about PGR and how that results in greener grass as well.
Basically let have another analogy.
If you have 1,500 people in a hot gym How smelly do you think it would be?
and then shrink the gym to the size of a classroom. Now how smelly?
That's what PGR does to Chlorophyll. It packs them in tighter making the room smaller and making the green even greener.
@Tellycoleman great info!
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Man that's awesome. That explains almost every question I could think of... So, since I've never put iron on my lawn, is it similar as nitrogen where there is potential for burn? Or is it safe to add at any point in the season? Also, what are the best products, both in liquid or granular form. Great analogies once again.
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What do yall think about Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron? https://www.amazon.com/Southern-Ag-...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TJXA8FXGEC7VSGKAQDZF
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Go to a siteone landscape supply in your area. If you want liquid iron, they will have it. You can pick up 2.5 gals for around the price of that southern ag. The product I use is actually a manganese and micro nutrients mix. It has iron in it as well as a few other things. I got mine for around $30 as well for 2.5 gal
If you want a granule that you can despolve which might be more cost effective,. Use FEature. Don't remember where you can order it from but you can find that in MQ's liquid fert program thread.
Go to a siteone landscape supply in your area. If you want liquid iron, they will have it. You can pick up 2.5 gals for around the price of that southern ag. The product I use is actually a manganese and micro nutrients mix. It has iron in it as well as a few other things. I got mine for around $30 as well for 2.5 gal
If you want a granule that you can despolve which might be more cost effective,. Use FEature. Don't remember where you can order it from but you can find that in MQ's liquid fert program thread.
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What kind of sprayer do you have?raymond said:
I like FEature 6-0-0
FEature I believe is cheaper per app and supposedly does not stain. Also when you look at the types of chelated iron it has, it has multiple types that will be available to your lawn based on different soil pH. I bought the stuff from siteone before I new about FEature. It has eddha iron which is good for my soil pH
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