ATC Office Hours: Recent Episodes
Asian Turfgrass Center
I discuss technical turfgrass topics with turfgrass managers, scientists, greenkeepers, and whoever drops by the ATC office hours. There's a lot of talk about the work done to create playing surfaces for golf, and also about growing grass for sporting surfaces of all sort, and also some talk of lawns.
Jackie's thesis at Michigan State University was titled "Effects of Different Soil Testing Philosophies on Creeping Bentgrass and Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens." She looked at how much P and K were applied by different interpretation philosophies, how the grass stood up to traffic, and what happened to the elements that were applied.
- All about #MLSN: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/mlsn/
Three blog posts with links to Jackie Guevara's research:
- https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/soil-test-showdown/
- https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/mlsn-and-turfgrass-nutrient-recommendations/
- https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/adding-potassium-does-not-increase-soil-ability-to-store-it/
- Follow Jackie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jackofallturf
- Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
- See the ATC newsletters at https://subscribepage.com/atc_newsletters
- Listen to the ATC Doublecut with Micah Woods podcast at https://atc-doublecut.transistor.fm/
- Ball bounce clip from Dan Dinelli: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxbIlZVkgZyANVSbtpaKnYkPk4xEeDGCyi
- Playability-tagged posts on the ATC website: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/playability/
- Chris Tritabaugh's blog: https://ct-turf.medium.com/the-data-says-cc7defa451f0
- Office Hours with Andrew McDaniel sharing no change in OM despite only 1 sand topdressing event in a year: https://youtu.be/QxNAOcxzsYM
- 8 minute video showing tournament conditions with only one sand topdressing in a year, plus an absurd amount of rain leading into the tournament: https://youtu.be/bbcJhA1zqNo
- Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
- See the ATC newsletters at https://subscribepage.com/atc_newsletters
- Listen to the ATC Doublecut with Micah Woods podcast at https://atc-doublecut.transistor.fm/
- We discussed the ball reaction video from the 2021 KBC Augusta tournament: https://youtu.be/bbcJhA1zqNo
- Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QxNAOcxzsYM
- Follow Andrew McDaniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drumcturf
- OM246 project page: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/project/om246/
- Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/
- See the ATC newsletters at https://subscribepage.com/atc_newsletters
- Listen to the ATC Doublecut with Micah Woods podcast at https://atc-doublecut.transistor.fm/
Doug Soldat joined me to discuss tissue tests for turfgrass, and how we might make use of them (or not) to make decisions about fertilizer.
- Frankly Speaking episode with some discussion of tissue testing: https://www.turfnet.com/podcasts/rossi/organic_matters_soldat/
- ATC website posts tagged "tissue test": https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/tissue-test/
- Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/91uKNFJxGDY
- Doug's pinned tweet about soil and tissue tests: https://twitter.com/djsoldat/status/1067427174204854277
Read Chris's blog at https://ct-turf.medium.com/
The posts we discussed were titled
- Is that disruption
- Are they right? and
- The data says ...
See more about the bobble test at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/bobbletest/
Watch this episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/nOnfqjdXc7w
Get climate appraisal forms from PACE Turf at https://www.paceturf.org/index.php/journal/climate
Read about growth potential on the ATC website at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/tag/growth-potential/
Watch this episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/oZgXv3ZaHkQ
Ben Brace and I discussed how we expect MLSN to work for Poa annua, and if there might be some differences compared with creeping bentgrass. We discussed biostimulants, soil sampling, potassium and stress, phosphorus and bentgrass vs. Poa competition, and much more.
Watch this episode on YouTube at https://youtu.be/8653TLD7SfA
Watch the video of this conversation: https://youtu.be/Xga9_uA8MBg
Read more about Tom Cook in this article: https://www.turfnet.com/blogs/entry/1452-tom-cook-pioneered-the-turf-program-at-oregon-state-university/
Chris Tritabaugh, the golf course superintendent at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Minnesota, discuss an OM246 report for samples collected in October 2021. This is total organic material by depth, and knowing the results of this test provide valuable information to optimize golf course playability while ensuring one is applying just the right amount of sand.
For more about this, see the OM246 project page on the ATC website.