Table 5. Warm-Season Perennial Grasses
 WFREC, Jay, FL. 2000



 Dry Matter
 Pounds per acre t


4 May
1100
870
300
460

310
280


Entry
Tifton 18 bahiagrass
Tifton 9 bahiagrass
Tifton 85 bermudagrass
Pensacola bahiagrass
Volunteer
Florakirk bermudagrass
Argentine bahiagrass
Volunteer
Volunteer
Volunteer
Coastal bermudagrass
Tifton 78 bermudagrass
 LSD (t.05)


310
240
250 t


t Pounds per acre X 1.12 = kilograms per hectare.
$ Statistics determined only on the 8 grasses harvested on 4 May.


SOIL:
FERTILIZER:


Orangeburg sandy loam (Typic Paleudult)
Applied 400 pounds per acre of 8-24-24 on 13 April 00. Ammonium nitrate
was applied at 100 pounds per acre on 11 July, and 11 Aug. 00.


7 July
2450
2250
2160
1720
660
1420
1310
940
480
790
1830
1340
510


4 Aug.
1670
1620
980
1330
1610
970
1580
1520
1710
1580
580
310
520


21 Sept.
 1870
 1690
 1790
 1150
 2290
 1770
 1250
 1400
 1590
 1320
 890
 650
 N.S.


Total
7090
6430
5230
4660
4560
4470
4420
3860
3780
3690
3610
2540
1310