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<blockquote data-quote="cowtrek" data-source="post: 438002" data-attributes="member: 2847"><p>It's not that the hybrid bermudas produce absolutely NO viable seed, there is about 2% of the seed produced on a hybrid bermuda is actually a viable seed; I read that on some university research somewhere along the line. It therefore follows that it is simply not economical to plant hybrid bermudagrass from seed, since to get, say, 10 pounds per acre of viable seed out you'd have to plant 500 POUNDS of seed to the acre, since 98% of it is non-viable and will not sprout, and we all know how expensive bermudagrass seed is!!! </p><p></p><p>That said, the guy I buy tops from was telling me a story about when he got started in the business... a guy showed him a bermudagrass runner that had been laying in the floorboard of his pickup for nearly a year... dry as paper. He planted it in his garden and packed it in real tight and poured some water on it, and said 'give it a week and tell me what it does." When the guy checked on it a week later, it was sprouting out a new runner from the joints. That sold him on planting his whole place in it. I also have a neighbor who's buying Tifton 85 and Jiggs hay from the egg farm; I've hauled it for him. He showed me a patch behind his barn where he feeds on wet ground that was belly deep on a cow, solid hybrid bermuda that had come up from the hay stomped into the mud by the cows in winter. I would think that the stuff on the bottom of the bale would be especially likely to sprout since it's kept moist and dark against the ground the whole time it's stored. Just what I've seen! OL JR <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowtrek, post: 438002, member: 2847"] It's not that the hybrid bermudas produce absolutely NO viable seed, there is about 2% of the seed produced on a hybrid bermuda is actually a viable seed; I read that on some university research somewhere along the line. It therefore follows that it is simply not economical to plant hybrid bermudagrass from seed, since to get, say, 10 pounds per acre of viable seed out you'd have to plant 500 POUNDS of seed to the acre, since 98% of it is non-viable and will not sprout, and we all know how expensive bermudagrass seed is!!! That said, the guy I buy tops from was telling me a story about when he got started in the business... a guy showed him a bermudagrass runner that had been laying in the floorboard of his pickup for nearly a year... dry as paper. He planted it in his garden and packed it in real tight and poured some water on it, and said 'give it a week and tell me what it does." When the guy checked on it a week later, it was sprouting out a new runner from the joints. That sold him on planting his whole place in it. I also have a neighbor who's buying Tifton 85 and Jiggs hay from the egg farm; I've hauled it for him. He showed me a patch behind his barn where he feeds on wet ground that was belly deep on a cow, solid hybrid bermuda that had come up from the hay stomped into the mud by the cows in winter. I would think that the stuff on the bottom of the bale would be especially likely to sprout since it's kept moist and dark against the ground the whole time it's stored. Just what I've seen! OL JR :) [/QUOTE]
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