Strong Dense Turf Grasses by GenNext

Lots of calls and emails this month after the mention in Superintendent Magazine. Thought this would be a good opportunity to walk through why the products reduce the use of fungicides, pesticides, herbicides while lowering water usage and on top of all that reduce poa annua significantly.” 

GenNext has a series of products,  developed over 40 years of constant research, that grows better turf grass. Our products are based on the belief that microorganisms are the key to building dense strong turf grass. GenNext products are not live microbes. GenNext has taken the essential microorganisms through the necessary life cycles to provide products that promote and provide strong dominant turf grass growth. We do this by extracting, in our labs, specific hormones, enzymes and organic complexes produced by these microbes adding additional micro nutrients, N and K as needed.

Let me state again, microorganisms are the key to building dense strong turf grass. Such organisms are responsible for releasing ingredients that solubilize various minerals and organic substances for root uptake. These microbes are responsible for releasing substances that are taken up by the plants that encourage aggressive root and rhizome growth that build cells, cell walls, healing, better withstanding adversities and assisting in developing/building immunity and defense systems. Besides the plant improvement, these organisms are also responsible for the development of rich, productive soil, the breakdown and release of toxic substances and the buildup of organic matter other essentials for improving soil aggregates, penetration and productivity.

The microbes associated with healthy turf grass growth have the ability to release materials that are toxic to many pathogenic disease organisms, insects and weeds. These represent nature’s natural defense. If they were encouraged to grow effectively they automatically control, prevent and kill these pests reducing the need for herbicides, fungicides and pesticide applications.When these soil microbes are deficient or non-existent, the grass weakens, thins out and eventually dies, other plants begin to invade quickly as they do not require these same microbes for their existence. Because of the large number of negative conditions that exist in a typical golf course soil these microorganisms cannot exist and/or function in the number required for healthy turf grass growth.  They cannot be added to the soil because of the toxic and negative soil conditions present would kill live microbes as they are applied.

Update Cypress Lakes Golf & CC

A part of the comments and pictures from Heath Puckett, CGCS Cypress Lakes Golf & Country Club, Muscle Shoals AL: 

”This green has always been one of the poorest performing greens on the property.  Given the small size, drainage problems, shade issues, and the extreme heat of the past two summers, it has been difficult to maintain turf on this area.  We have been making applications ... every 2-3 weeks since June, and will make a final application next week at a 2x rate (per your suggestion) prior to the turf turning dormant… , this is the best this green has looked or putted in a long time”

12/03/2011 After GenNext Complete A&B

6/23/2011 Before GenNext Complete A&B

Sandstone Golf Update: Great turf less Poa Annua

In May of this year we had the opportunity to meet with Dean Rollie at Sandstone Golf. Like many courses in Minnesota this spring Sandstone had a large amount of winter kill on their greens.  In our initial meeting with Dean and his General Manager there was some serious disbelief that our organic based  products would not only revive the damaged areas,  but over the course of the summer, significantly improve the overall  conditions of the greens  including reducing the Poa Annua population.  After some arm twisting and the promise of a free hat, Dean started using the GenNext Complete A&B products on his greens in late May, applying every two weeks at an 8 oz. per 1000 sq. ft. rate.

Dean in an earlier blog (http://sandstonegolf.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-product-trial-but-no-free-hat.html ) had commented: ” As far as promoting the bentgrass over poa, time will tell. It's only been applied twice, so we'll see as the summer goes on what effect it will have. Our number 1 green will be the ultimate test… This green is almost pure poa. If Gen Next Complete can make a dent in this one, I'll be the first in line to buy it.” 

Well the season is over.  Below are the before and after pictures of the number 1 green, Dean estimates that the poa annua population has been reduced by 60%. From almost all poa annua to a green that is 65% bentgrass in one season, using GenNext Complete A&B.

Deer Run Project

We sprayed the 11th fairway at Deer Run in Victoria MN on 8/10/2011 with GenNext Complete A&B and Like Wild here are the pictures detailing the results.

 8/10/2011

 8/15/2011

 8/22/2011

Bent Encroaching Poa Patch… Height .085

Frank Zamazal Sent this picture along.

Bent encroaching on poa annua… Height .085. Franks talked about GenNext A&B on TurfNet saying:

After 5 months of rain this winter, I finally got the product out....10 weeks after the initial application...going bi-weekly per the Rossi protocol...greens are awesome...no seed head problems this year....this stuff could be the "Real Deal".....bent populations are stout....I'll know more by October....happy I took the plunge!”

Breakdown of Nutrients in GenNext A&B

We have been asked in a number of inquires, what are the rates for A&B nutrients. Below is the breakdown of the nutrients based on pounds per 1000 square feet of application.

FIRST TIME HERE?

Chances are you were referred to the blog by a post on a turf site or a referral from someone you know, we are GenNext and our mission is to grow great turf. The company is an extension of our research and consulting business in agronomy. The consulting business has been around since 1964, in 2005 we made the decision to standardize our formulations that we prescribed on a prescription basis to courses across the world, and create products that could be marketed to the courses in mass.

The products are based on the premise that Mother Nature is the best lab technician. We examined why specific turf grasses flourished, at the plant level and the soil level then examined the areas where that turf grass didn’t flourish. We broke down the differences in those plant and soils then sought to produce a formulation that would create the environment that flourished. The products GenNext Complete A&B and GenNext C&D are the finished products.

But let’s get down to the bottom line here’s the two big questions we are always asked: How does it reduce poa annua? What is the active ingredient? To be honest we don’t know which of the 3000 complexes of multi forming natural organic ingredients, microbiological bi-products, organic hormones, extracts, and enzyme complexes delivered in the product actually cause the poa annua to become the weaker plant, but it happens 95% of the time. The product was designed to create healthier aggressive growing plants. It was through observation over 12 years on various courses throughout the world that we realized the products energized the desired turf grass to grow through the poa annua. Over the course of a couple seasons we have seen courses reduce poa from 95% to 5%.

Really the only true way to see if the product is right for your course is to contact us at info@gennextcomplete.com 

Sandstone Minnesota Results

May 13th

 Dean Rollie at the Sandstone Golf Club in Sandstone Minnesota had a large amount of winter kill on his greens and an overzealous member who roto-tilled a fairway (for what reason I’m still not clear). We read about the problem on twitter contacted Mr. Rollie and brought him products we knew could help the problems. Dean was skeptical of our claim but without many options and nothing else working for Dean he choose to work with us. We delivered our Like Wild and GenNext Complete products to Dean. Dean applied the products as prescribed starting on May 3^rd. We don’t have a picture of the starting look of the fairway but here are three from May13th May 24^th and June 5^th Dean thinks it’s pretty impressive, we do too. You can check his May 30^th blog post for an update on the greens http://sandstonegolf.blogspot.com/

May 24th Sandstone MN

June 5th Sandstone MN

The Rim Club Payson Arizona

Picture sent from Andrew Fortin, The Rim Club, Payson AZ. Andrew has been using GenNext Complete A&B on his nursery green. Andrews text states: “the lighting was rough but it shows what used to be a really large patch” (of poa)  and per conversations "Poa Annua has been reduced by 35% and there is no seed head production on the treated areas versus significant seed heads on untreated area"

The red arrows show the Bent grass pushing into the Poa Annua, The Rim Club has been using the product for four months now with applications every two weeks. 

POA CONTROL PICTURES

Gene Milota from Springfield OH. Notice the stand of Poa Annua just off his greens. He used the GenNext Complete A&B formulation to reduce Poa Annua on the greens from 95% back to 5%.

POA STRESSING

 

Here are some photos from The Rim Club's Nursery Greens after two applications of GenNext Complete A&B using 32oz of the product per 1000 sq. feet. 32 oz. is a moderately aggressive program for making the Poa stress and energizing the primary turf to smother and take over the Poa stand.

NATURAL “EXCITERS” CATALYTIC ENZYME TECHNOLOGIES

Catalytic Enzymes can definitely improve the performance of your current fertilizers. Using these catalytic enzymes you can build strong, healthy, aggressive growing plants while improving soil productivity. With our catalytic seed starter you can get plants up in half the time then when using normal starter fertilizers.

A number of unusual discoveries have uncovered many natural enzymatic compounds that force and stimulate critical and essential internal microbiological reactions to occur in plants. These critically required microbiological reactions do not occur unless these specialized, highly reactive enzymes are present. Studies of agricultural, horticultural and crop producing soils show that the levels of these catalytic enzymes are continually depleted as the field is used. The health, quality and nutritional value of the crop is also reduced.