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| Publication Type:
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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| Title: | Poor pitch colour |
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| Section: | Enquiries and replies
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| Source: | Journal of the Sports Turf Research Institute. Vol. 59, 1983, p. 164-165. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bingley, West Yorkshire, UK: The Sports Turf Research Institute |
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| # of Pages: | 2 |
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| Question: | "As you know, our pitch was reconstructed in the early summer with an improved pipe drainage system, stone drainage carpet and a very sandy topsoil mix aimed at maintaining fast surface drainage. The initial germination and establishment of the new grass cover was good and fertilizer has been applied since, but the pitch is now losing colour rapidly. A sample of turf is enclosed." |
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| Answer/Response: | "Your turf sample has been examined by our Biologist who confirms that Corticium (red thread) disease is present. The fungus commonly produces mottled brown areas at this time of year, the red fungal needles often being clearly visible on the grass leaf blades. Fungicidal treatment of the disease over a soccer pitch area would be likely to be rather expensive, and the prime cause of the condition is likely to be inadequate fertilizer treatment. Red thread is nearly always associated with inadequate availability of plant nutrients, particularly nitrogen. The prime cause of the problem is undoubtedly the deliberately very sandy nature of your pitch, designed of course to keep the surface dry in the winter season. This does, however, have the disadvantage that very frequent fertilizer treatment is required as nutrients are rapidly leached through, there being very little clay to hold nutrients in the surface soil. We are finding with pitches of this kind that fertilizer treatment every four or five weeks may be required through the growing season, using 250 kg (5 cwt.) of fertilizer of 20:10:10 type or similar to the pitch area on each occasion. It must be appreciated that the management of sandy pitches of this type is basically different to that which would be appropriate for a more normal football area. Research on sandy constructions is being carried out at the Institute at present and initial results indicate that 400 kg N per hectare per year may be required to maintain satisfactory grass growth. Appropriately frequent fertilizer treatment should prevent a recurrence of red thread disease trouble." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Color evaluation; Disease control; Disease identification; Fertilizer recommendations; Red thread
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Sports Turf Research Institute. 1983. Poor pitch colour. J. Turfgrass Sports Surf. Sci. 59:p. 164-165. |
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