Can anyone identify this?

Charris – posted 26 May 2005 23:03

Maybe I posted this in the wrong forum before.

Hello to you all,

I have the follwing problem. My Kikuyu grass is having yellow spots that are increasing in diferent areas and are getting bigger. I use a 20-20-20 fertiliser if it helps, The soil is sandy and the lawn is 10 months old (grown from seed. I could not find a test kit to test the soil ph (If you know a web site that sells internationaly please send me the link)Unfortunately I live in Cyprus (Country in the Mediterranean Sea) that help is not that good. The weather is similar to Arizona climate. Can you identify what might be the problem?

I took some photos and I placed them in the link below:

http://www.relax-cruises.com/grass/index.html

gabe – posted 05 June 2005 20:31

just a thought. the mushrooms may be a clue that you have fairy ring, a malady that often causes your soil to become hydrophobic and not allow water to get to your plants.

ideas:1. poke into both the dead and healthy areas with a knife or screwdriver. is the dead area drier? harder to penetrate? if you have mushrooms popping up, that tends to infer that you are plenty moist, yet if that soil in the area that’s declining is dry, maybe fairy ring?

2. take a turf sample that crosses the interface of the healthy and dying areas, so that half of the sample is green, half declining. (or better yet, take 3: one dying, one at the interface, one healthy). now just look through the thatch and uppermost soil of your sample for what looks like white/dusty looking filaments. are they present in the healthy sample? dead sample?

just some quick ideas.

Charris – posted 06 June 2005 05:20

Hi,

I found what the problem was. I had some fungus that I took care of, but it turned out to be that on that spots was not enough water. I put cup in different places, I watered and in the places that I have the problem the water level was one third of the other cups where the lawn is healthy. I watered that places manually and know is starting to get green again. :-)Now I have to locate some popus for longer dinstance to water those areas.

Thanks for the help,

Charris