Futura Pro Extreme

Creeping Bentgrass

SEEDS & SCIENCE

Futura Pro Extreme

Description

Futura Pro Extreme Creeping Bentgrass Blend is engineered for superior performance on golf course greens, designed to excel under a variety of environmental and maintenance conditions. Combining two high-quality bentgrass varieties, MacKenzie and Tillinghast, and MacDonald, this blend offers an enhanced genetic base, ensuring a turf that thrives even in challenging climates. This blend is tailored to deliver outstanding turf quality, uniformity, and consistency, ideal for golf courses seeking optimal greens with minimal maintenance.

Futura Pro boasts exceptional disease resistance, offering enhanced protection against common turf diseases like Brown Patch, Pink Snow Mold, Dollar Spot, Leaf Spot, and Pythium. The blend's genetic diversity results in a dense, uniform putting surface with a fine leaf texture and a smooth playing surface. MacKenzie, known for its deep roots and summer stress tolerance, pairs well with Tillinghast Creeping Bentgrass delivers exceptional putting green and fairway performance with fine texture, medium dark colour, and outstanding resistance to Dollar Spot, Brown Patch, Pink Snow Mold, Anthracnose, and Pythium Root Rot. Its high density without Bentgrass bloat provides strong Poa annua resistance, improved thatch management, and reliable early spring green up. 

40% MacDonald Bentgrass
40% MacKenzie Bentgrass
20% Tillinghast Bentgrass

Key Features

  • Rapid Germination and establishment
  • Superior Dollar Spot resistance
  • Aggressively competes against Poa Annua
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Components

Ratings

Scale 1-9, where 9 = best or most pronounced

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General Characteristics
Establishment (Days) 7-14
First Mowing (Days) 21
Endophyte + (Yes, No) No
Germination (Days) 3-5
Nitrogen Requirement (Low, Med, High) Low
Segment Turfgrass
Species Creeping Bentgrass
Sci. Name Agrostis stolonifera
Seeding Information
Seeding Rate - Overseed (Lbs./1000 sq. ft.) 2-3
Seeding Rate - Interseed (Lbs./1000 sq. ft.) 2-3
Seeding Rate - Golf Green Interseed (Lbs./1000 sq. ft.) 2-3
Seeding Rate - Golf Green Overseed (Lbs./1000 sq. ft.) 2-3
Seeding Rate - Interseed (Kg./100 sq. meters) 1-1.5
Seeding Rate - New (Kg./100 sq. meters) 0.5-0.7
Seeding Rate - New (Lbs./1000 sq. ft.) 1-1.5
Seeding Rate - Overseed (Kg./100 sq. meters) 1-1.5

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