[gotgrass]

Hello guys, been reading on overseeding. I have paspalum It was installed about 45 days ago..

I am thinking the grass will go dormant maybe November. From what i have gathered, i need to verticut it and then seed it with perennial ryegrass.

Is it that simple?

I live in CA, so when would be the time to do this?

Do i cut back on water?

I have read some threads on this, but is paspalum treated the same as a Bermuda ?

Sorry for the noob questions, but this all new to me...

 

[dfw_pilot]

I added the grass type to your thread title.

 

[gotgrass]

I added the grass type to your thread title.

Thanks

:thumbup:

 

[Mightyquinn]

I wouldn't overseed it. With it being freshly laid sod you will want to let it mature before overseeing it with rye. Is there a reason you want to overseed the paspalum?

 

[gotgrass]

I wouldn't overseed it. With it being freshly laid sod you will want to let it mature before overseeing it with rye. Is there a reason you want to overseed the paspalum?

Well, from what I have read , it goes dormant in the winter. So overseeding it with perineal rye would give me green grass in the winter, but in Cali, we may not have such thing as winter....

:lol:

However, I may just ride it out and see how bad it gets ...

 

[Taylor_XMK]

How far south do u live? I'm on the coast of south carolina wear we have a seashore paspalm golf course, our fairways at somewhat around .3-.5 inches usually and our rough stays about 1 in in the winter I think, maybe taller. Usually our rough goes dormant but the fairways stay green all winter if we don't have many hard freezes

 

[gotgrass]

How far south do u live? I'm on the coast of south carolina wear we have a seashore paspalm golf course, our fairways at somewhat around .3-.5 inches usually and our rough stays about 1 in in the winter I think, maybe taller. Usually our rough goes dormant but the fairways stay green all winter if we don't have many hard freezes

I live in Orange County, Southern California. i am about 20 miles from the beach.



So, i shouldn't expect it to go completely yellow/brown then?

I guess time will tell.

 

[southernguy311]

Hello there!

Don't waste your time or money overseed

I just checked out your historical temperatures in OC and you rarely if ever have a freeze. A freeze is just about the only thing that will cause your Paspalum to go dormant. In southern Ga mine didn't go dormant after last growing season. It went dormant for a couple weeks when we had a record late freeze this March. So basically it stayed green for 54 weeks last year.

 

[gotgrass]

Hello there!

Don't waste your time or money overseed

I just checked out your historical temperatures in OC and you rarely if ever have a freeze. A freeze is just about the only thing that will cause your Paspalum to go dormant. In southern Ga mine didn't go dormant after last growing season. It went dormant for a couple weeks when we had a record late freeze this March. So basically it stayed green for 54 weeks last year.

Southernguy311,

Thanks for the info. You guys are wealth of knowledge.

:thumbup:

 

[Mightyquinn]

So basically it stayed green for 54 weeks last year.

What time frame are you using?

 

[dfw_pilot]

So basically it stayed green for 54 weeks last year.

What time frame are you using?

The sheer weight of the awesomeness of Paspalum created a gravitational time dilation.

 

[southernguy311]

So basically it stayed green for 54 weeks last year.

What time frame are you using?

The sheer weight of the awesomeness of Paspalum created a time dilation.

I love it

It's been a long week