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Centipede grass is a strange creature. 99% of my yards are centipede. My best yard I fertilize in the spring and mow the rest of the season. He doesn't water it but it remains lush and full. Others that are treated and watered look like crap. I wish fescue would grow down here.
I always test with centipede with a pump sprayer when I'm trying something new. I'd go with the medium rate and hit it later in the afternoon, like 4-5-6pm. If the grass is healthy and has had some water recently, it shouldn't feel any effects, but generally I skip the surfactant in the middle of summer.
often times you spray centipede it will turn yellowish in color which is bad for it. that may be why yours doesn't look as good as your neighbor's. read the label on the 2-4-d or whatever you use. it says to use less of it than normal on centipede grass. for example some grasses it may say 2oz per gallon but for centipede use 1oz per gallon.
The centipede grass has taken over more than half the lawn and nothing I have tried has stopped its spread. I was afraid that if I didn t do anything it would take over the rest of the lawn. A few weeks ago I killed most of the lawn with round-up. I killed the parts already overrun by centipede grass and a portion of the fescue bordering the ...
I use MSM on Centipede at .25 oz per acre. It is labeled for Centipede at .25 to .5 oz per acre but Centipede can be sensitive to MSM. For your .25 acre lot the range would be from .0625 oz (low rate) to .125 oz (high rate) assuming you are treating roughly 10,800 square feet.
centipede is all we have down here in the woods. it is a lazy man's grass, but is well suited to the climate of SE GA. it is hard to establish from seeds, but relatively easy to do so from sod or plugs. 2-4-d will not hurt centipede if it is used according to label directions. if it is too hot when it is applied it can turn it a little yellow for a few days. the biggest problem with centipede ...
Plant Analysis Handbook III ISBN# 978-1-878148-01-8 Has a "Survey Range" for Centipede Grass taken from healthy Tissue samples in Summer. Many labs use this reference for determining recommendations. P % in tissue is 0.18-0.35 As you likely know, your soil pH has an effect on availability of P.
I love Centipede too. But if it shows up as a weed in someone's Bermuda sod, I have to wonder how well the Bermuda is doing in terms of its soil preferences. I have come to understand that Centipede grows in a specific niche. Never have I dealt with a grass so picky about what it will and will not grow on. Bermuda grows on almost anything.
The reason why Syngenta limits application on St Augustine to sod farms only is how white it gets. The St Augustine does not die, but it turns albino. On centipede, there is no white. It appears to be totally unaffected. A few months ago, I applied Tenacity to a centipede lawn. No whitening on the centipede, but anything else in the grass ...
It also failed to completely kill the weeds I intended to kill. 2,4-DP, and MCPP are probably the worst things to apply to centipede. My broadleaf mix of choice for centipede or st augustine is metsulfuron + Quicksilver. It hurts the weeds way more than the centipede.