Friday, April 22, 2016
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Changing Direction at Boiler Springs Golf Club
What difference a year makes! Jeff Wagner took over as Superintendent of Boiler Springs Golf Club this spring. He faced numerous problems, the management of a struggling municipal operation with bentgrass greens in the transition zone, an effluent water source, sandy soils, and a very high indigenous population of sting nematodes. The golf course was closed in late 2012 due to a history of chronic mismanagement and ongoing struggles maintaining the putting surfaces.
In early 2013, the city of Woodward took control of the property and renovated the golf course. Boiling Springs Golf Club reopened in the fall of that year. Despite the completion of an entire fumigation process, by fall of 2014, the greens were lost once again due to a combination of various and extremely complex set of agronomic issues. Below is the conditions of the Fourth green in 2014 before Jeff"s arrival at Boiler Springs.
Under guidance from Michael Chaplinski of Turf Feeding System, Inc, GenNext Biotech and Global Environmental Management we designed a fertigation and spray program for Jeff"s greens and fairways. Within two weeks after the fertigation was installed and the GenNext and GEM products were applied the golf course began to change dramatically and each week it continued to get better. Below is the 2015 photo of that same 4th green taken in the same time-frame as 2014.
Why the dramatic turn around? Whats the GenNext Difference?
What is it?
GenNext formulas A & B are extracellular enzyme (exoenzyme) complexes, stabilized with soil minerals (Copper, Zinc, Iron, & Manganese) and combined with plant hormones. The formulations use humic and fulvic acids to provide the complexes with a soluble carbon / energy source, and use immediate and gradual release nitrogen blend to provide their food source. The enzyme complex is derived from composted corn and prairie grasses from America’s Heartland.
What does it do?
Continual use of GenNext A & B improves both soil and plant health by triggering the vital reactions necessary to sustain them in terms of root development, soil respiration and ultimately plant immunity.
How does it work?
Applications of GenNext A & B bypass microbial diffusion of exoenzymes in the soil, and provide an instant enzymatic catalyst to promote existing beneficial soil bacteria as well as trigger plant defense mechanisms in the form of plant activators. There are no living processes to inoculate the enzyme complex…they activate immediately upon application.
How does one incorporate GenNext in their program?
The use of GenNext A & B utilizes enzyme stimulation with the benefit of a high quality carbon and nitrogen blend that serves as a more efficient nitrogen substitute for your current fertilizer program. Based on your nutritional needs it will mix with any liquid or soluble nutrient source and help form a comprehensive nutritional strategy for the demands of your growing season.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Plant Talk: Frank Zamazal
I am very excited to be a partner with the GenNext team. One
of the most innovative segments of the formulations GenNext produces are the
plant activators and extenders. Plant activators are an integral part of plant
health. They are short-lived compounds
that activate a plant’s immune system to respond to pathogen activity and play
a critical role in plant survival. Unfortunately, plant activators naturally trigger
at the point of stress to a plant…but what if plant activators could be introduced
with an extended life span, beforehand, while a plant is thriving? The GenNext
formulas do just that and have bio-technology to extend plant activator
activity to go beyond the role of defense mechanism and become a partner with
fertility and plant development.
The
GenNext proprietary formula of plant activators and extenders (hormones and
enzymes combined with micro-biological extracts and soluble carbon) or simply
put, composted materials, have been formulated to prolong the effects of plant activators,
so they can be continually introduced with regular applications promoting
beneficial microbial activity and developing plant defenses through the buildup
of root mass and mycorrhizae, thus, promoting plant density and disease
immunity.
When evaluating your foliar program, I believe there needs to
be an overall change in mind set. Fertility protocols need to embrace the use
of plant activators to prime the plant’s development process. Although the
effects of plant activators have been proven to be short-lived, the GenNext
proprietary formulations incorporate natural extenders to prolong the efficacy
of the plant activators from days to weeks. Having this characteristic in your
foliar program will not only optimize plant health, but lead to enhanced
conditioning impervious to abrupt seasonal changes detrimental to plant health.
I intend on writing a number of blogs over the coming months
on plant health, drought tolerance, mycorrhizal colonization and other plant
related topic. Please feel free to contact me with questions about plant health
or the GenNext products.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
What’s happening in the GenNext Turfgrass Hybrid Application (A&B or C&D)
1.
A&B Foliar
Application delivers, at the leaf, immediate nitrogen (N) that Improves coloration
within 2 - 24 Hours. C&D requires applicator to add nitrogen (N),
2.
Soil Application delivers water soluble readily available carbon (WSRAC), micro nutrients,
simple and complex carbohydrates,and the Key Complex of microbial exudates that
include enzymes and plant hormones. A&B provides additional nitrogen (N).
3.
WSRAC activates the
microbe population, simple and complex carbohydrates stimulate the microbes.
4.
Microbes energized
start producing gummy substances (polysaccharides) to hold macro and micro nutrients in place to
be available to the plant.
5.
Fungi Filaments (mycorrhiza) start
to increase in population creating a hairnet like web of fungi that grows into
the root increasing root capacity up to 700 times. These fungi absorb water and
nutrients from the soil conducting them back to the roots.
GenNext creates
balance for your existing microbes, delivering to them byproducts not being
produced by the current microbe population.
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Research on Reduced Rates of Fungicides for Anthracnose Control in Annual Bluegrass Putting Greens
The final data points are on this research project in a
Research project with Rutgers University in particular Anthracnose Control with
reduced rates of Fungicides and GenNext Products. The label rate for Daconil Ultrex 82.5 is 3.2 oz.
per 1000 sq. feet. This research was done reducing the rate by 25% to 2.4
ounces and 50% to 1.6 ounces See the charts Rutgers 2014
The table below shows the average result of four plots, through end of the trial of this year, using Daconil Ultrex 82.5 plus GenNext A&B at the 8 oz. of GenNext A and 8 oz. GenNext B per 1000 square feet.
Anthracnose Trial | DAC Rate | Label | Percent Turf Area infested (%) plot | ||||
Products | /1000 sq feet | % | APP Sch | 27-Jun | 7-Jul | 17-Jul | |
Daconil Ultrex 82.5 | 3.2 | 100% | 14 day | 8.5 | 10.3 | 13.5 | |
GenNext A&B +Daconil Ultrex 82.5 | 1.6 | 50% | 14 day | 4.8 | 5.0 | 3.5 | |
GenNext A&B +Daconil Ultrex 82.5 | 2.4 | 75% | 14 day | 4.3 | 4.3 | 2.0 | |
GenNext A&B +Daconil Ultrex 82.5 | 3.2 | 100% | 14 day | 3.5 | 5.3 | 1.8 | |
(DAT) Days after last treatment | DAT | DAT | DAT | ||||
was applied. | 10 | 6 | 2 |
Anthracnose Trial | DAC Rate | Label | Percent Turf Area infested (%) plot | ||||||
Products | /1000 sq feet | % | APP Sch | 27-Jul | 6-Aug | 16-Aug | 26-Aug | 5-Sep | |
Daconil Ultrex 82.5 | 3.2 | 100% | 14 day | 9.3 | 12.8 | 8.8 | 11.8 | 10.5 | |
GenNext A&B +Daconil Ultrex 82.5 | 1.6 | 50% | 14 day | 6.3 | 11.3 | 4.5 | 1.3 | 0.5 | |
GenNext A&B +Daconil Ultrex 82.5 | 2.4 | 75% | 14 day | 3.8 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
GenNext A&B +Daconil Ultrex 82.5 | 3.2 | 100% | 14 day | 4.0 | 4.8 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
(DAT) Days after last treatment | DAT | DAT | DAT | DAT | DAT | ||||
was applied. | 12 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 24 |
Values below 15% turf area
infected with anthracnose are typically judged to be acceptable in research on this
disease.
So
as you can see we had significantly better control of the anthracnose using
GenNext A&B and Daconil Ultrex at reduced rates.
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Near Detroit Michigan Recovery Photos
Here is an update from the field on spring recovery. These
pictures are from a course near Detroit Michigan after three treatments over six weeks of
the GenNext A&B products. I think these pictures tell it all!
Practice Green before first
application
Practice Green after second
application
Practice Green Friday June 13, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
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