Bermuda Grass Blades Turning Red

Also the grass just seemed to stop growing.

Bermuda grass blades turning red.

At least it s not dying yet. Your yard s grass commonly covers a large percentage of space compared to other garden plants like flowers or vegetable. The wind moves bits of these threads to non infected plants to spread the disease. Affects bent grass bermuda grass ryegrass bluegrass and fescue.

The blades will be coated with orange red to yellowish brown dust or spores. The ph is 6 0 6 5 and the soil is nutrient poor. 2 at higher ph levels centipede is very sensitive to iron deficiencies which can cause leaf blades to turn light yellow. Red thread is a growth of the fungus laetisaria fuciformis and appears in two forms on the blades leaves of infected grass.

Grass blades will have tan brown areas on them. It rained about every third day and the grass was growing fast. Maybe its my imagination but i don t think so. The other form appears as fuzzy pink clusters of mycelium.

Spring arrived and the bermuda grass came back to life. One form has thread like branches sometimes compared to antlers called sclerotia. The spots may merge into large affected areas. The spores can be rubbed off the grass blades with a finger.

Small silver dollar sized spots of tan brown grass appear over the lawn. Why does grass turn brown even when it is watered fertilized properly. As the red thread becomes well developed light pink to red fungus strands or threads 1 4 or more in length begin to grow from the tips of the blades and the leaf sheaths these threads are the reason for the disease s common name. The lawn rust begins with yellowing leaf blades and small yellowish spots which mature to orange red or brown coloring.

I put pre emergent fertilizer down but the grass didn t turn red until a little later about the time we started mowing. I live in inland south carolina zone 7. The grass is usually tan or light brown beneath the red thread growths. Dollar spot doesn t usually cause permanent damage.

It tolerates acidic soil with ph as low as 4 5 to 6 0 much lower than most grasses prefer.