High to Extreme Disease Alert Sydney – December 2014

Wow after the driest spring on record and a very dry and hot November December has had a u-turn. high temps high rainfall. This is what I saw yesterday on the radar and on the road. Yes it did get worse after I got home (pic taken by passenger). The red on the radar meant very heavy rain.

 

 

UPDATED MY CLIMATE DISEASE PREDICTIVE MODEL APP (from livingturf.com.au) SHOWING EXTREME DISEASE ALERT FOR PYTHIUM IN SYDNEY

As you can see tfrom Monday 1st pythium pressure increased dramatically and is still extreme to high. Recommendation is Proplant as Proplant works in all disease pressure conditions especially known and proven as a strong pythium fungicide

Overnight I was speaking to a few supers on twitter on how much rain they received. There was quite  a difference with western Sydney copping about 45mm of rain while the eastern suburbs only got around 8-18mm which is very surprising since they are the ones who always get a drenching.

What all this means is that disease pressure is very high to extreme (my climate app report) at the moment and will be staying high for the next few days at least. Having a preventative program is the best option however even the best prevention program needs a little fine tuning. Here at Campbell’s we have Proplant available for pythium and is on the of the best products on the market available due to its curative abilities and longest residual over nay other pythium product. Proplant has been a trusted fungicide by meany turf managers for over 10 years now. In our trial work we did with Proplant we compared it against a standard pythium fungicide and found that the standard gave only 7 days residual while Proplant even at both the low and high rates gave 28 days.

For more information see the brochure here Proplant Brochure

Also have a look at our guide to managing pythium not just from a chemical point of view but from a cultural view. Disease guide rhizo eri pythium 2014

Managing pythium is not just use fungicide but use every tool you have at your disposal and make observations on your turf. You need to take a holistic approach from mowing practices, watering practices and inputs you are using. See our guide to find out more.

As always we do recommend a broad spectrum tank mix partner with Proplant (as its is specific to pythium only) as when we were anyalysing the samples in the trials we always found other diseases namely brown patch. So the options we have are:
So have a look at partnering Proplant with Ippon, 250GT, Protak, Monstar,

Again please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

 

Nadeem

zreikat@campbellchemcials.com.au