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Summer Stress blend

5.2K views 4 replies 4 participants last post by  Redtwin  
#1 ·
Just ordered a bag of summer stress blend from Yard Mastery (by Sunniland). Looks like it is 7-0-20. Does anyone has any experience with it? Thus far i've been spoon feeding my st aug every couple of weeks at 2-3/lbs rate with XGN 8-1-8 with really good results, Although it's getting pretty hot our here in Houston area so I wonder if extra K wold help (really seeing some heat stress in certain areas of the lawn).
 
#3 ·
I've been looking to try this myself too. In your case, I would assume you're already applying enough K unless a soil test showed otherwise. I keep up with the heat by hand watering some stressed spots.

Fill us in on your results.
 
#4 ·
Interesting, just got an info email from The Lawn Care Nut, where he suggest summer stress blend for cool season lawns, but mentions nothing about it for warm season lawns, which I have - st aug. any suggestions on why would that be the case?
 
#5 ·
I have read mixed messaging on the effects of "syringing" but it works VERY well here in Florida. I do 5 minutes per zone in the middle of the day.

@parshisa, LCN's latest messaging is related to cool-season lawns that are going dormant in the heat. We warm-season guys might have heat stressed lawns but as long as we keep them irrigated they shouldn't go dormant.