Recommended for:
Golf Course
Greens, Bowling Greens, and Tennis Courts
Tifdwarf offers a fine blade and its putting surface can be compared with many creeping bentgrasses. Tifdwarf is highly adapted to heat, saline or sodic soils, heavy traffic and low mowing. Because it overseeds and transitions well, it is highly effective for year-round play in areas where summer temperatures exceed 100 degrees F. Verticutting and topdressing are needed to balance the aggressiveness of Tifdwarf, but its mat is the perfect base for overseeded winter grasses.
Description:
Tifdwarf is a hybrid bermudagrass cross of Cynodon transvaalensis X Cynodon
dactylon. Tifdwarf has smaller and shorter leaves, stems and internodes
than TifGreen. The leaf blades are dark green in color and have the finest
texture of the hybrid bermudagrasses.
Uses:
Tifdwarf is used for golf course greens more than any of the other hybrid bermudagrasses. It is also used in bowling greens and tennis courts.
Characteristics:
Temperature range of adaptation - as with the other Tif-Varieties, Tifdwarf performs well in climates within 45 degrees latitude to the equator. Tifdwarf is not as winter hardy as Tifway and Tifgreen, and performs best at altitudes lower than 1,500 feet.
Water Quality Tolerance:
Tifdwarf is the most tolerant of the Tifbermudas to salt concentrations. On a suitably drained profile Tifdwarf can tolerate soil concentrations in excess of 4000 ppm total salts.
Drought Tolerance:
Tifdwarf will survive droughts with minimal water availability. One to two inches (25 to 50 mm) of available water weekly to the plant will provide an acceptable turf surface. Tifdwarf will survive at 1/2 inch (12 mm) irrigation per week, dependent on soil physics.
Traffic and Wear Tolerance:
Tifdwarf recovers somewhat slower from injury than Tifgreen but proves to be the finest bermuda surface available for golf course greens.
Weed Tolerance:
Tifdwarf forms a dense turf which will prevent the presence of many turf weeds when properly maintained. However, Tifdwarf has a somewhat lower herbicide tolerance than Tifgreen.
Insect Pest Tolerance:
Tifdwarf is slightly more susceptible to insect injury than Tifgreen.
Soil Fertility Range:
Tifdwarf grows best in soils with a pH range of 5.5 to 7.0. Soil levels of 100 pounds/acre (112 kg./hectare)of phosphorous and 150 to 200 pounds/acre (168 to 224 kg/hectare) potassium will provide a healthy growing plant. Nitrogen applied at 1 pound/1000 sq. ft. per month will provide a healthy plant when combined with the recommended phosphorous and potassium.
Establishment:
Tifdwarf is a sterile (no viable seed) triploid plant which can be successfully propagated as sprigs (rhizomes, stolons and stems) or as sod.
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