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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 702637" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>As for high maintenance I think it depends on what you are comparing it to. Compared to bahia - yes, it is high maintenance. Compared to any other bermuda I have it is the least maintenance of any from the standpoint that with a given amount of fertilizer I will consistently get at least one more bale per acre in the same time period and its better quality than alicia, coastal or tift 44.</p><p></p><p>As for drought tolerance, I haven't experience a drought yet that would kill my bahia so I'm ignorant on that. I do know the UGA planted some T85 on my friends farm where the soil is what we call sugar sand. This is the poorest driest dirt there is and much of this is suitable for sand mining rather than forage production. They excavated the root system and found the T85 roots went down 12 feet to moisture. I always thought this was impressive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 702637, member: 4362"] As for high maintenance I think it depends on what you are comparing it to. Compared to bahia - yes, it is high maintenance. Compared to any other bermuda I have it is the least maintenance of any from the standpoint that with a given amount of fertilizer I will consistently get at least one more bale per acre in the same time period and its better quality than alicia, coastal or tift 44. As for drought tolerance, I haven't experience a drought yet that would kill my bahia so I'm ignorant on that. I do know the UGA planted some T85 on my friends farm where the soil is what we call sugar sand. This is the poorest driest dirt there is and much of this is suitable for sand mining rather than forage production. They excavated the root system and found the T85 roots went down 12 feet to moisture. I always thought this was impressive. [/QUOTE]
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