Timing poa seedhead control

Preventing those lovely seedheads from forming is one of the trickiest tasks that superintendents face, because your goal is to start treating with either Proxy/Primo (ethephon/trinexepac–ethyl) combinations or Embark (mefluidide) when the seedheads have just begun to form, which is JUST BEFORE the seedheads become visible to you. The most successful timing usually relies on a combination of visual observation (spray when you first see the earliest flowering poa seedheads in the rough or on south facing slopes) and growing…