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1. Jennings Dustin T

   
   10/30/2013 8:10 AM

   I've heard all kinds of explanations...how does this happen

   
   
   
   
2. Rodney Crow

   

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   10/30/2013 9:10 AM

   Frost!

   
   
   
   
3. Jennings Dustin T

   
   10/30/2013 9:10 AM

   Rodney Crow said: Frost!

   
   
   well of course it's frost, but why the tiger stripe pattern. Is it the way the sun hits it? water run-off? leftover fertilizer keeping it alive? or magic..

   
   
   
   
4. Tyler Broderick

   

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   10/31/2013 8:10 AM

   I think this answers it.
   
   http://www.anr.ext.vt.edu/lawnandgarden ... amage.html

   
   
   
   
5. Jennings Dustin T

   
   10/31/2013 9:10 AM

   Tyler Broderick said: I think this answers it.
   
   http://www.anr.ext.vt.edu/lawnandgarden ... amage.html

   
   
   I've had golfers ask me about it and I had no answer. Thanks for clearing that up. I've been telling them I think God is a Clemson tiger fan.

   
   
   
   
6. Kenneth Ingram

   

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   10/31/2013 2:10 PM

   Been teaching 5 years now with a partial extension appointment. Guaranteed at least one tiger striping call every year. People really freak out. Kenneth Ingram, UMD

   
   
   
   
7. Peter Bowman

   

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   10/31/2013 7:10 PM

   I would love to play 18 holes of that just once.

   
   
   
   
8. Hood Austin T

   
   10/31/2013 10:10 PM

   I do not know the reason why it does that, but I thought that tiger stripe was specific to 419 bermuda only. Could be wrong, just something I've heard.

   
   
   
   
9. Larry Stowell

   

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   11/1/2013 8:11 AM

   I have seen the symptom on most warm season grasses. Here it is on kikuyugrass:
   
   http://www.paceturf.org/photo/showphoto.php?photo=522

   
   
   
   
10. James Smith

    

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    11/8/2013 9:11 AM

    While I have not got it yet this season we generally see it every year. This is the first year where Inoticed the bermuda's growth habit where you can actually see where the frost will Tiger Stripe the turf. It seems to grow in bunches leaving some sticking up higher then other sections. the top is what goes dormant first.

    
    
    
    
11. Justin Murray

    

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    11/9/2013 9:11 AM

    I noticed some of this this week in our roughs. Not frost from but the dew pattern was just the same.

    
    
    
    
12. Keith Pegg

    

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    11/9/2013 7:11 PM

    Dustin T Jennings said: I've heard all kinds of explanations...how does this happen

    
    
    Is it a clay soil? if so it was dry and cracked and the roots make a nice nest in each crack. when it gets cool these areas have better base to fill from, maybe
    
    Keith

    
    
    
    
13. Hampton Kicklighter

    

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    11/12/2013 11:11 AM

    Ive got it here after the two frost on bunker faces. It looks like some of the grass (what is green) is ever so slightly lower in height. I think the frost didn't "sink in" on the shorter blades just yet.

    
    
    
    
14. Jennings Dustin T

    
    11/13/2013 6:11 AM

    Keith Pegg said:

    Dustin T Jennings said: I've heard all kinds of explanations...how does this happen

    
    
    Is it a clay soil? if so it was dry and cracked and the roots make a nice nest in each crack. when it gets cool these areas have better base to fill from, maybe
    
    Keith

    
    
    I've never thought of it that way but this theory makes sense. We were in a pretty heavy drought at the time of our first few frosts.