It can be planted on greens, tees, fairways, roughs, and on all sports fields. Platinum TE was selected as an improved cultivar for multiple traits compared with other cultivars. How does Platinum TE compare to older paspalum varieties? On greens mowers, maintaining sharp cutting blades is a key management strategy since paspalum has a heavy wax load on the leaves that can contribute to dull blades and less than optimal cutting quality. The same mowers that are used on bermudagrass and zoysiagrass can be used on paspalum.
SeaIsle 1 and Platinum TE have exhibited the best shade tolerance, and Platinum TE is, to this point, superior in shade tolerance among all paspalum cultivars.Īre special mowers required to maintain paspalum? Paspalum, in general, has good shade tolerance and is significantly better than bermudagrass. (For more information on disease treatment for paspalum, visit the Disease section of the Platinum TE Technical Support Library.) Is paspalum more disease prone than bermuda and zoysia?Īll turfgrass diseases that attack warm season grasses can equally attack paspalum, bermudagrass, and zoysiagrass. The localized ecosystem and micro-environmental conditions that promote fungal or bacterial or nematode attacks have the potential to attack all of these grasses on a site-specific basis. (To distinguish myth from truth about paspalum, visit the General Paspalum Information section of the Platinum TE Technical Support Library.) Generally, paspalum is not an invasive species, and in ocean-exposed lagoons will often grow a foot or two out into the lagoons or mangrove swamps. Yes, salt can be used as a supplement herbicide since it shuts down growth rates in weedy species and can enhance the efficacy of applied reduced-rate herbicide chemistry in most cases.
(Learn more about growth regulators and paspalum in the Herbicides and Weed Control section of the Platinum TE Technical Support Library.)Ĭan salt be used as a natural herbicide on paspalum? Yes, most plant growth regulators can be applied to paspalum, but the physiological response to Primo PGRs on paspalum is different compared to bermudagrass. (Learn more about managing paspalum greens in the Greens Management section of the Platinum TE Technical Support Library.)Īre the nitrogen requirements for paspalum lower than bermuda species?Įxpect nitrogen requirements for paspalum to be 50%+ less compared to bermudagrass.Ĭan plant growth regulators be used on paspalum? Different plant anatomical physical characteristics and different greens management strategies. Ocean water should not be used as the primary irrigation water source since salt accumulation in the soil will be a primary limitation to long-term sustainability.Ĭan paspalum putting greens provide a similar putting surface to ultradwarf bermudas?Įxcellent, championship-quality putting greens are achievable with paspalum, but paspalum putting greens are different from ultradwarf hybrid bermudagrass greens, just like zoysiagrass greens are different from bermudagrass greens. No, the grass is buffered genetically to tolerate rainwater and saline irrigation water. (Learn more about turfgrass salinity in the Water and Soil Management section of the Platinum TE Technical Support Library.)ĭoes paspalum need to be irrigated with saline water to perform optimally? The grass does not remove salts from the soil profile. The grass evolved on sand dunes exposed to both ocean water and rainfall and, as a result, is well-buffered to tolerate salinity challenges in the water and in the soil. What makes paspalum more salt tolerant than other turfgrass species? Ron Duncan covers the basic facts of seashore paspalum. A Q & A session with renowned plant breeder Dr. Given its shorter history of usage, turf managers may not have as much education or experience with the species. While seashore paspalum is now widely recognized as a high-performance turfgrass for golf, sports, and landscape applications, it is the new kid on the block compared to bermudagrass and zoysia. A Q & A on the Sustainable Turfgrass Species
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