Does anyone - other than me - have experience with Chisholm and/or Flecha Tall Fescue in area between Dallas and Tyler, TX? These varieties are Mediterranean, summer-dormant, and NO endophyte. Both of these varieties would be great for my area if they had SOME endophyte? Any varieties I'm missing?
Tall Fescue in NE Texas
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Porkchopfat
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Noble foundation released one recently. My seed dealer said it won't persist this far south, like all of them. It will hang on for a few years and decline rapidly unless you have clay soils that are in a low area with good moisture.
BlondeD
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........I'm in South West Tennessee.....the old KY 31 fescue was tough and persisted well. Now, with the shifting climate, I've noticed that even it is having a tougher time and other grasses are taking over. That being said, I'm trying to clean up a lot of these others, along with the old "infected" KY31 and replace with these "novel" fescues. Ask me in 5 years....thw seed mix I've assembled is sitting in my shop, waiting on enough worthwhile rains before I'll break out the drill.
I planted KY 31 3 years ago at about half a bag per acre drilled. Super happy with it here in N. Tx. Blackland soil. This season I got 3 cuttings off it and never had a 3 cutting crop of anything. The first cutting was so thick that I couldn't get in it to WW after I tedded the WWs my drum mower left. So I just drove the baler through it till I reduced the volume and then went with conventional baling practices. The bales I made just driving through it were the heaviest and prettiest I ever baled. Running 15-5-10 Fert. and not a lot of it. Planted in an exhausted Coastal patch.
