New lawn problemo...ID Please

[drumbo]

I have been doing lawns for a while now but have run across something I have not seen yet. We have had a good amount of rainfall and I don't know if this plant/fungus has anything to do with that.

I would appreciate any help from you seasoned vets on this and what I might use to treat it. The homeowner's deck is on the second story and when you look out at the lawn it looks like it's polka-dotted. The "dots"/spots appear to be kinda red-tinted and I pulled some of the stuff up and it looks almost like kids spraypainted red spots randomly throughout the yard. I have been using LESCO's 19-0-6 30% PPSCU 0.10% Split Dimension and lately a little Momentum FX2 for spot-treatments---but not on this yard yet as it is very clean overall.

THANK YOU ALL!!!

[TurfProSTL]

Check out this info on Pink Patch & Red Thread.....

http://iaa.umd.edu/umturf/Diseases/redpink.html

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Red Thread

[Grandview]

Looks like Red Thread. Do a soil test. Make sure P and K levels are good. Also apply a pound of N/1000 every 7-8 weeks during the spring and fall.

[RigglePLC]

Looks like red thread fungus. It is a killer on some types of ryegrass--particularly if night time temps remain over 75. This lawn should have been seeded with a higher quality ryegrass--something with more disease resistance. Consider Derby X-treme ryegrass.
Do not water at night. Try to water to reduce humidity and leaf wetness--maybe three times per week maximum. Keep nitrogen high.
Fungicide "Compass" is supposed to be great on Red thread. Costs about a hundred dollars an ounce.

[Shades of Green LService]

Def. Red thread. Saw a lot of it last year. Should go away with your next fert. Like above post said 1 lb of N p/K. It's not a big deal. Should go away w/ proper fert program. Also like Riggs said, Don't water at night. Also during the day. Water less frequently but more heavily. 1" - 1.5 " per week. only in the morning.

[turfsolutions]

Watch watering practices as mentioned, but even at that there will be areas that are prone to it. Spot treat or blanket treat depending with a good fungicide and do not believe the suggestions that more N will grow it out. The only thing that it will grow out is more brown patch fungus in another month.

[Shades of Green LService]

An excess of N is not a good idea. Like i said apply 1 pnd of N on your next app ( that is not an excess). I just think for Red Thread 9 out of 10 times will go away after next app. In my personal experience w/ it. Never had a brown patch out break by going this route.

[lilmarvin4064]

red thread is pretty common in my area. So far I have only applied about 1/2 lb. N / M (a lot of slow). No problems yet in my lawns. I will be applying another 0.6 to 0.75 # in the next week.

[turfsolutions]

I wouldn't even consider putting down 1 lb. of N per K at this time of year. In sandy parts of Jersey, it may be fine, but in my clay soil a recipe for brown patch disease, which is much worse than red thread, but not as bad as summer patch.