2.5 days in and my sprigs still have green blades, so far so good on this small test spot. I am going to let Bermuda take over my St Aug. Will try common first at 1.5", much better than 4" St Aug. I cant thank you enough for this video, if not for you I wouldnt be trying this, I would be seeding
I may need to watch some videos on using it as an actually Dethatcher, but I find a lot of great uses for it outside of that haha. Easily a great investment and would buy again.
That's not sprigging. It will come out far different also sense zoysia has very little growth like that on top, yes zoysia has some runners and stolons running on top but it's far less than zoysia. Real sprigging or stolonizing containing very little top growth and only stolon or rhizomes cut out of the soil, the machine removes all the soil. The thing that matters is nodes, nodes is where roots grow from. That piece of equipment is also not a dethatcher. Thatch is basically soil just 100% organic, it contains living and dead material but old dead grass is right on top of the thatch layer, it's good to remove it but it doesn't remove thatch, just drags the tines on it. How sprigging is really done ruclips.net/video/HIK_pUMNjJY/видео.htmlsi=IkdgTXoyqM5Yb865
Sprigging works fantastic- you mentioned it takes longer, I've found it establishes in less than half the time it takes plugs to establish and spread. I plugged zoysia about 3 years ago and at the bottom of each bag I was left with maybe 10 lbs of soil and root material where some plugs had fallen apart. I spread that out in low areas and I had full coverage *that* season, where the plugs simply survived and then finally started to spread the second season. I won't do it any way other than sprigging after that little accidental experiment
Well it’s slower than just going out and buying sod. I’d never do plugs.. takes way too long to establish. I really liked the sprigging and would do it every time from this point if possible.
For sure! Only time I’d consider plugging would be for a smaller project and a grass type that I didn’t have access to sprigs. What types have you sprigged? I wonder if Zoysia or St Augustine would sprig easily?
@@TheLawnChannel I've sprigged Z52 zoysia and Latitude 36 bermuda. The bermuda runs out on the surface first and then attaches. Zoysia acts a little funny in that the rhizomes proliferate first, then foliage appears seemingly out of nowhere. It will freak you out a little too because the initial foliage resembles bermuda. After it matures it gets that zoysia foliage look. All the same rules for sprigging apply
Sprigging works far faster. What this guy did is not sprigging, removing tipop growth and putting it on the ground is no where near like sprigging. If sprigging is done properly you can have an entire putting green in 28 days. Sprigging often contains rhizomes with less stolens and very little top growth, this contains more roots. The sprigs are often shipped in refrigerator trucks. There are two ways to actually plant sprigs, placing them on a ground or whatever area, than you use whatever machine some prefers to push the rhizomes into the ground, water every hour for a couples minutes, they must stay wet. Usually after the first day the area is topdressed with sand and rolled. This process continues and fertilizer plus fungicide applications are done. Within a month you will see the entire area has ground cover, the area can usually be mowed in 14 days. The second option is a machine does the sprigging, it creates a small hoes in the ground, the rhizomes are fed into these holes by the machine and than covered with very little sticking out and the process is done in one pass. You can get plugs to grow faster with bi weekly topdressing, the sand absorbs the heat, the zoysia grows towards the heat being attracted to it. Be sure to use a growth regulator or use extra amounts of phosphorus and potassium, these help promote deep roots and forcing horizontal growth. Extra nitrogen never hurt but don't go crazy, black sand is always best for plugs. Never buy plugs just buy sod and cut it yourself it's 10 times cheaper when you consider how much you get
My first ever sprigging project was 80,000 sq ft and we spread it by hand. TifDwarf. That sucked. Hard work but 18 awesome greens were the result. Wondering if you used a rotary mower to cut and bag the loosened stolons and use them too
Do you think a sun joe de thatcher will pull up sprigs just as easily? I have about 500sqft of Celebration that I can harvest from and about 700sqft of common that I want to sprig in to. Do you recommend killing off the common before sprigging? Very nice content and thank you!
Hay friend how are you? Getting from Argentina. I have two cuestions. 1. What kind of grass is it? 2. How long it take to grow when u do that method? Thanks a lot
This is Bermuda. Not sure what type of Bermuda. And it takes a couple weeks to see the beginning growths of the grass.. and then another 4-6 weeks to really fill in. It could also depend on how heavy you sprig/stolonize.
+cglarsen26 The photos at the end were right after spreading the sprigs. The green is from the sprigs cause they were freshly harvested. I’ll try and get a picture posted of that area now. It’s been about 5 weeks or so. Not sure how to make a picture post on here, but if I can’t, maybe will post a short video.
+TheBrownsquad Root Growth Stimulant from GREENE COUNTY FERTILIZER.. it’s got stuff like Humic Acid and Sea Kelp to help with root growth. My sprigged area has done very well, along with the weeds haha. But I plan on doing a broadcast weed application very soon.
2.5 days in and my sprigs still have green blades, so far so good on this small test spot. I am going to let Bermuda take over my St Aug. Will try common first at 1.5", much better than 4" St Aug. I cant thank you enough for this video, if not for you I wouldnt be trying this, I would be seeding
Dude we got that dethatcher to use on my parents zoysia lawn. I thought it worked pretty well. Hadn’t thought about springing 👍🏼
I may need to watch some videos on using it as an actually Dethatcher, but I find a lot of great uses for it outside of that haha. Easily a great investment and would buy again.
That's not sprigging. It will come out far different also sense zoysia has very little growth like that on top, yes zoysia has some runners and stolons running on top but it's far less than zoysia. Real sprigging or stolonizing containing very little top growth and only stolon or rhizomes cut out of the soil, the machine removes all the soil. The thing that matters is nodes, nodes is where roots grow from. That piece of equipment is also not a dethatcher. Thatch is basically soil just 100% organic, it contains living and dead material but old dead grass is right on top of the thatch layer, it's good to remove it but it doesn't remove thatch, just drags the tines on it. How sprigging is really done ruclips.net/video/HIK_pUMNjJY/видео.htmlsi=IkdgTXoyqM5Yb865
Sprigging works fantastic- you mentioned it takes longer, I've found it establishes in less than half the time it takes plugs to establish and spread. I plugged zoysia about 3 years ago and at the bottom of each bag I was left with maybe 10 lbs of soil and root material where some plugs had fallen apart. I spread that out in low areas and I had full coverage *that* season, where the plugs simply survived and then finally started to spread the second season. I won't do it any way other than sprigging after that little accidental experiment
Well it’s slower than just going out and buying sod. I’d never do plugs.. takes way too long to establish. I really liked the sprigging and would do it every time from this point if possible.
@@TheLawnChannel plus... get down on all fours and plant 6000 plugs and there will be no doubt its an inferior technique
For sure! Only time I’d consider plugging would be for a smaller project and a grass type that I didn’t have access to sprigs.
What types have you sprigged? I wonder if Zoysia or St Augustine would sprig easily?
@@TheLawnChannel I've sprigged Z52 zoysia and Latitude 36 bermuda. The bermuda runs out on the surface first and then attaches. Zoysia acts a little funny in that the rhizomes proliferate first, then foliage appears seemingly out of nowhere. It will freak you out a little too because the initial foliage resembles bermuda. After it matures it gets that zoysia foliage look. All the same rules for sprigging apply
Sprigging works far faster. What this guy did is not sprigging, removing tipop growth and putting it on the ground is no where near like sprigging. If sprigging is done properly you can have an entire putting green in 28 days. Sprigging often contains rhizomes with less stolens and very little top growth, this contains more roots. The sprigs are often shipped in refrigerator trucks. There are two ways to actually plant sprigs, placing them on a ground or whatever area, than you use whatever machine some prefers to push the rhizomes into the ground, water every hour for a couples minutes, they must stay wet. Usually after the first day the area is topdressed with sand and rolled. This process continues and fertilizer plus fungicide applications are done. Within a month you will see the entire area has ground cover, the area can usually be mowed in 14 days. The second option is a machine does the sprigging, it creates a small hoes in the ground, the rhizomes are fed into these holes by the machine and than covered with very little sticking out and the process is done in one pass. You can get plugs to grow faster with bi weekly topdressing, the sand absorbs the heat, the zoysia grows towards the heat being attracted to it. Be sure to use a growth regulator or use extra amounts of phosphorus and potassium, these help promote deep roots and forcing horizontal growth. Extra nitrogen never hurt but don't go crazy, black sand is always best for plugs. Never buy plugs just buy sod and cut it yourself it's 10 times cheaper when you consider how much you get
Dethatching rake? Can you put a link to the rake? Thanks!
My first ever sprigging project was 80,000 sq ft and we spread it by hand. TifDwarf. That sucked. Hard work but 18 awesome greens were the result. Wondering if you used a rotary mower to cut and bag the loosened stolons and use them too
I love Sprigging! So easy and satisfying when seeing the results. I wish I had more areas to do it to lol
Do you think a sun joe de thatcher will pull up sprigs just as easily? I have about 500sqft of Celebration that I can harvest from and about 700sqft of common that I want to sprig in to. Do you recommend killing off the common before sprigging? Very nice content and thank you!
I don’t have experience with that equipment. But it’s very possible it would work.
Great video. I would like to have seen some follow up videos.
I did post a few videos showing the progress. Give me about 10 minutes and I will try linking them in the description. Thanks!
Hay friend how are you? Getting from Argentina. I have two cuestions. 1. What kind of grass is it? 2. How long it take to grow when u do that method? Thanks a lot
This is Bermuda. Not sure what type of Bermuda. And it takes a couple weeks to see the beginning growths of the grass.. and then another 4-6 weeks to really fill in. It could also depend on how heavy you sprig/stolonize.
The photos at the end of the video is that after 30 days or so? I may try this myself. What's your watering schedule for the first few days/weeks?
+cglarsen26 The photos at the end were right after spreading the sprigs. The green is from the sprigs cause they were freshly harvested.
I’ll try and get a picture posted of that area now. It’s been about 5 weeks or so. Not sure how to make a picture post on here, but if I can’t, maybe will post a short video.
Do you know if you can sprig over pre-emergent? Im considering doing this a little earlier in the year and know I will be fighting a ton of crabgrass.
I've heard it CAN hinder sprigging.. but not sure how much. I'd prob not apply it if I could help it
How'd this transplanting-spriggs [stolons] turn out??🤔
Post/pin 📌 a link to a quick 30sec update video in the comments here.
It went great.
What is RGS?
+TheBrownsquad Root Growth Stimulant from GREENE COUNTY FERTILIZER.. it’s got stuff like Humic Acid and Sea Kelp to help with root growth. My sprigged area has done very well, along with the weeds haha. But I plan on doing a broadcast weed application very soon.
Heres a video on how sprigging and stolonizing is actually done ruclips.net/video/HIK_pUMNjJY/видео.htmlsi=IkdgTXoyqM5Yb865