Pythium

And that's probably my nearest example for a lot of people that think about humidity is Sydney, because we have a lot of challenge in summertime with a high humid summer.

So how are you looking to manage that through? Are you expecting the challenges of Pythium? What have you got in your mind? Can I ask you about those? We already get

Pythium.

We only started seeing that about 10 years ago.

We had no idea what it was.

This was before the bent.

Does it affect the cooch? Yeah, yeah.

We had Pythium outbreaks and I remember looking at it with my boss and we were like, what is this? And we had one of our reps say, it's Pythium.

it's definitely less common

but it can happen especially if you have something notably bad happen you know what heavy rains poorly draining fairways if they were to get some sort of Pythium or you know some sort of fungal disease and have pretty notable dieback You can definitely see it.

The means of recovering those surfaces can be a little bit more straightforward just because you can often be a little bit more aggressive with the mechanical disruption of those areas.

If you go in and pull a core or you top dress pretty aggressively on top, you can often nix a lot of those issues.

do you see any correlation between courses that do a spring airfication to, you know, open up that, that root zone early in the year? Do you see any correlation between this problem at courses that, that are able to do that spring airfication versus those that don't? I would think probably related

to like, top dressing like it seems like courses that top dress more frequently tend to kind of help disrupt some of the algae development that maybe they may see but obviously improving your um your drainage especially through and limiting your organic matter at the surface through a lot of those cultural practices is a big piece of just setting up your growing environment properly to to resist a lot of these things so um And there's also some other things like, uh, and I mentioned in the article, there's some interesting research out of UConn and I think it was in 2017.

I was talking about, um, essentially preventative use of a potassium phosphate, uh, which a lot of people will have in like a, a fairway program, uh, to kind of help prevent a lot of your, your Pythium diseases.

Um, So that's kind of an interesting one to think about as well.

Like, I've, I've learned a lot with that too.

It's like after perennial rye, like perennial rye is notorious for getting Pythium on a new, uh, a new turf- a s- newly established turf grass.

And then I'm looking at all these things, and I'm just like, there's a lot of these fungicides where it's like they recommend applying this particularly to perennial ryegrass, like-

Every other week

I gotta be honest with you, I don't know if I've ever followed the book on that.

Um-

You know, I will say, like, I did, last spring, a full renovation, um, put perennial ryegrass 100%, and I got hit with Pythium that summer and last summer and other stuff.

This year, with year two, I...

Now that being said also, sometimes, you know, certain of those root rots are maybe not gonna be as damaging as others.

You know, Pythium, for example, will typically almost always kill the plant when it infects the plant.

Um, Rhizoctonia not, is not always that, that deadly to the plant.

It, it restricts growth and it, and it causes some problems on the yield side, but you're probably not gonna see plant death.

Well, anyway, it is really trapping the moisture below the surface.

And I'm assuming the peppers have that Phythora, whatever it's called, or Pythium, those two root rods, because it has all the same symptoms where it turns brown and the roots are brown.

And I can't seem to either, A, treat the soil or treat the plant in time to get it back.

I've lost like seven pepper plants.

Do you feel like it's chunky or is it nice and loose?

No, no, it's.

So yeah, so the soil is pretty loose and like it doesn't like the tomato plants and the beans and basil all everything else don't really care so it seems like And so is there a way, if it is one of those two fungal, the Pythium or the Polythor or whatever it's called, is there a way to actually kill that fungus, that type of waterborne fungus? Because I can't, some parts of the garden are perfect, like the peppers grow fine and everything.

And then the other one, I've got mushrooms growing and everything, but I just can't seem to, I guess, kill that fungal or whatever's in the soil.

These soil-borne pathogens infect the roots, and they cause the roots to decay.

Soil-borne water molds such as Pythium and fungi such as Fusarium are the usual culprits of root rot.

Once infecting one plant, these pathogens can infect other nearby plants in waterlogged conditions.

These pathogens may be transferred from one part of the garden to another when gardeners transplant the infected plants.