Monday, 22 September 2014

Plant Growth Regulator (PGR)

The greens on the course currently have quite a slow ball-rolling-speed even though we double-cut and double-rolled them with a turf-iron last week. The sward is noticeably quite thick and I immediately thought that we may be behind on the verti-cutting schedule. This however is not the case.

The head greenkeeper advised that there has been excessive growth because he didn't include a PGR in the last fertiliser application as this is what his literature suggests.

From this one can see that literature can be used as a guide only and not a sure schedule.  The weather is always changing and a greenkeeper needs to adapt his practices to suit this.

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