Turfgrass Weed Science | Virginia Tech | Auburn University ‘17 & ‘19
Blacksburg, VA
Joined June 2020
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I'm very honored to have even been considered for this award. An award like this would not be possible without the support of many people including @VTTurfweeds @malherbologist @VTTurfgrass @auburnturf and especially my wife @cynthiaspeppers
The Musser International Turfgrass Foundation has selected Dr. John Peppers as its 2024 Award of Excellence recipient.
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If you struggle with crabgrass on your greens or tees, it may be a good idea to change up your PGR program. Left photo is primo @ 6fl oz/a and right photo is cutless @ 12.3 floz/a. Both were applied every three weeks. No negative effects on the bentgrass with cutless this summer
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I am elated to announce I will be starting as Assistant Professor of Turfgrass Science @UArkansas this August! Very excited to continue researching turf pathology as well as other areas of interest. I will have to learn the WOO PIG SOOIE chant!🐗 @ArkansasTurf
Can Cutless or Trimmit be used to suppress summer annual grasses in your bentgrass putting greens? Early results indicate that Cutless and Trimmit are preventing the germination of smooth crabgrass. We’ll see if this can hold throughout the season
While it may seem like a good idea to combine Trimmit and Poacure to increase poa suppression, this combo can actually reduce poa control. This is two fall apps of poacure @ 0.6floz/M alone and combined with four fall apps of Trimmit. Always read and follow your herbicide labels
Everyone come out to the SWSS graduate student mixer tonight at TopGolf in Austin!
I light of the upcoming SWSS (@SouthWeedSciSoc) Annual Meeting:
Meet the SWSS Graduate Student Organization President, John Peppers (@PeppersTurf)! 🌱
We will know more about this by the end of the summer, but the greenhouse and other preliminary work looks promising
Can PGRs control goosegrass and crabgrass in creeping bentgrass putting greens? @PeppersTurf and @VTTurfweeds share @VTTurfgrass research update in @VaTurfCouncil magazine – theturfzone.com/vtc/?ascat=8…
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Can PGRs control goosegrass and crabgrass in creeping bentgrass putting greens? @PeppersTurf and @VTTurfweeds share @VTTurfgrass research update in @VaTurfCouncil magazine – theturfzone.com/vtc/?ascat=8…
Can your PGR program affect whether or not you get goose or crabgrass on your CBG putting greens? L-R: Nontreated, cutless, trimmit, primo, anuew. (A thread)
The roots of these plants. Goosegrass in the 1st pic and crabgrass in the 2nd. L-R: nontreated, 1 app cutless, 3 apps of cutless, 1 app of trimmit, 3 apps of trimmit, 1 app of primo, 3 apps of primo, 1 app of anuew, 3 apps of anuew. 2/3
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The @VTTurfgrass Turfgrass Research Center manager position in Blacksburg has posted at careers.pageuppeople.com/968… We look forward to bringing a new VT Turf Team member into the fold! #vaturf
Bermudagrass control in bentgrass fairways is possible, just not easy. That nice square of clean bentgrass surrounded by bermuda infested bent has been treated with pylex (0.25 floz/a) plus turflon ester (0.75 floz/a) 3x in the spring and 3x in the fall for the last two years
I typically reserve Twitter for grass and herbicide related posts, but on Saturday I was fortunate enough to marry my best friend (and fellow weed scientist) @cynthiasias
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Artificial lawns exhibit increased runoff and decreased water retention compared to living lawns following controlled rainfall experiments sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Targeted herbicide applications (ie dabbers) of selective herbicides can be a good tool for turf managers to control poa on putting greens. (R: Nontreated; L: xonerate .175 lb ai/a). I would also strongly recommend not trying this on heavily infested turf
I think it’s time to have a real name for weed science. In today’s world, telling someone outside of agriculture that you’re a “weed scientist” makes it sound like you just sit at home listening to Bob Marley and smoking weed all day. That’s just my 2¢ though #weedscience
