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%.