Cloning grass?

[bkdlawnCo]

i was wondering if anyone knows the techniques of if it's even possible to sme what "clone grass"? i just wanted to dink around with something over the winter so i took a piece of bluegrass from a local golf course nothing too big only like
8"x8"...is it possible to make it bigger in size grdually like 12 x12, 14 x 14, 16 x 16 so on and so on...i think it would be sweet to make a decent size patch of it...i'm going to major in landscape contracting or turfgrass management so if i could do it i think it would be impressive to a professor...or just to see what I did.

[Norm Al]

are you serious?

[bkdlawnCo]

ya i'm serious....i wouldn't have posted if i wasn't....

[YardPro]

that is not cloning.. it is PROPAGATING..

cloning is when you create a new stem cell with identical DNA as the origional...

and yes, what you want to do is not only possible, but done all the time... ever hear of sod????.....
looks like you have a lot to learn towards that degree....LOL.

[dcgreenspro]

you can't propagate bluegrass to grow out from a piece of sod that much. Granted it has rhizomes and it will creep a little but not at the rate you are thinking. it will all be explained in school.

[bkdlawnCo]

thanks you....thats all i wanted to know...

[golfguy]

Make a small aerator, pull cores and allow the cores to root into the soil.

[YardPro]

that method is called sprigging.

[Norm Al]

i was wondering if this was a serious thread or not,,,,,,, :)

[YardPro]

i am still wonder ing this......majoring in turfgrass management and not knowing about basic propagation????

[mdvaden]

I just read a link lately - another gardening site - about genetically altered grass or seed, spreading beyond it's containment area.

It was not approved yet, and spread outside of the control area.

If anybody beats me to the link, feel free to post it.

Saw a great segment about genetic alteration of animals / plants on history channel a few weeks ago.

Apparently, researchers have been in the dark. They thought humans had many more genes, and found out there's far less.

What that means, is that some genes control several things, which places previous theories outside their league of understanding or estimation.

[Neal Wolbert]

Thanks for the link to your Redwood photos. They really are a truly magnificent natural wonder. Redwoods top my list of favorite trees for lots of reasons, only one of which is their size. Thanks again.

Neal

[mdvaden]

Thanks for the link to your Redwood photos. They really are a truly magnificent natural wonder. Redwoods top my list of favorite trees for lots of reasons, only one of which is their size. Thanks again.

Neal

Anytime.

I tend to sign with what I find interesting - rotating time to time. Switched to soil today. But my redwoods album is easily found via my site in signature, then albums in my upper menu.

A couple I met from New York there a few weeks ago, emailed to say they spent a bundle in the Burl Gallery to the east in Kerby, Oregon. That's in my southern Oregon album, about half way down. The owner of the Burl gallery told me that Mr. Sherrill who owns the arborist supply outfit, really spent a wad of cash.

Anyhow, the redwoods are really a treat, and I try to hike in there about once a month.

[Neal Wolbert]

Typos, or is it just me?

For example, if a soil is comprised of 70% clay, 20% sand and 10% silt; that soil is within the texture classification of clay soils.

If another soil is 10% clay, 20% sand and 70% clay that soil is within the texture classification of silt loam soils.

If a soil is 100% clay, 0% sand and 0% clay, that is also a clay texture soil.

Neal

[mdvaden]

Typos, or is it just me?

For example, if a soil is comprised of 70% clay, 20% sand and 10% silt; that soil is within the texture classification of clay soils.

If another soil is 10% clay, 20% sand and 70% clay that soil is within the texture classification of silt loam soils.

If a soil is 100% clay, 0% sand and 0% clay, that is also a clay texture soil.

Neal

Typo fixed.

I've got over 70 web pages now, and there's always a stray typo ;)

[Accu-cut Lawn Care]

you should roundup your parents lawn. Put your 64 square inch piece of bluegrass right in the middle. water daily. your teachers and parents will be so proudof you.