Abstract
Bermuda grass are the most widely used today in high performance sports fields, the cultivar “Tifton 419” is widely indicated for installation in these areas, however, there is no official a recommendation in the literature of the best substrate for the implantation of this species, and research is needed to meet this demand. In this way, the objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of substrates in the development of the “Tifton 419” sporting lawn. The experiment was conducted in field with grass carpets implanted in black plastic containers (volume 8.46 L), in a completely randomized design with five substrates and 12 replicates, with treatments: soil (100%), medium sand (100%), soil (50%) + medium sand (50%), soil (33%) + medium sand (33%) + organic compost (33%) and medium sand (50%) + organic compost (50%). Macro and microporosity, total porosity, density, chlorophyll content (a + b) and fresh and dry leaf mass were evaluated. The results showed that there was influence of the substrate on the development of the turfgrass, with the medium sand (50%) + organic compost (50%) presenting greater increases of fresh and dry mass (1.09 and 0.44 kg m-2), which may lead to higher maintenance costs of the cut, and soil (33%) + medium sand (33%) + organic compost (33%) presented good results of the analyzes performed, being the one recommended for the development of the cultivar “Tifton 419” in sports fields.
Highlights
Since the beginning of the decade in Brazil, there has been a great increase in the market for production and maintenance of turfgrass, including sports ones (SILVAKOJOROSKI et al, 2012)
A species with wide use in these events were the Bermuda grass (Cynodon spp.), that can be adopted in fields for practice of soccer, polo, golf, tennis and baseball (ALDAHIR, 2012)
The organic compost was decomposed for one year, consisting of Bahiagrass leaves and corral manure (1:1) and the medium sand was acquired in local commerce and later washed
Summary
Since the beginning of the decade in Brazil, there has been a great increase in the market for production and maintenance of turfgrass, including sports ones (SILVAKOJOROSKI et al, 2012). It is estimated that there are currently 238 producers producing approximately 20 varieties of grass (ANTONIOLLI, 2015) Together with this economic growth, the realization of the World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympics have allowed, second Kuhn (2015) to make updates to the technologies of production, maintenance and development of sports fields. According to Gurgel (2012) several hybrids, such as the cultivars “Celebration” and “Tifton 419”, were installed in Brazil in the last years, and they are widely recommended for sports fields They are plants that present stoloniferousrhizomatous growth habit, which allows greater resistance to trampling, as well as softness, which facilitates the ball
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