7/6/2015 11:07 AM
For what it's worth, we've used Redox here before. Good product, but a lot of spraying and difficult to get our sprays out September through March...not good on our cool season golf course. My "hybrid" part granular, mostly foliar program provides same or better playing conditions at less cost...more efficient in my book. I do have heavy clay soils but chose to address chemical and physical limitations in the soil rather than continue on a strictly foliar program. I'm a firm believer in the value of organics and regularly use compost, biosolids, poultry manure, seaweed extracts, and humic and fulvic acid sources. As the soil health has improved, I have been able to reduce fertility inputs all together and the system keeps on trucking. When we were spraying, within a few weeks of the sprayers stopping, turf health went south quickly. Not arguing that we don't focus too much on "recommended" fertility rates, and am very excited you can maintain turf at .0057 # N/m every thirty days in such an extreme environment, it ought to work wonders for us with shorter growing season and less extreme conditions. I see a test plot in my near future.