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1. Melvin Waldron

   

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   6/15/2013 10:06 AM

   I was wondering how all of you might track a product's effectiveness after applications? I occasionally will make some notes on my application sheet if the reaction to something is quick enough, (meaning I haven't punched my 3 holes in the application sheet yet and put it in the binder), and then I don't always make the time to go back through old sheets regularly, and when I do, if there are not notes there, it doesn't help me. Just wondering what others are doing.
   
   I will have to admit, I don't always go back and see the effectiveness of some of my herbicide treatments, such as broadleaf in the rough areas. Most everything else I note, due to seeing it more often. I did make a couple of plots on two fairways this past week and sprayed Speedzone Southern on my bermuda fairways w/knotweed. Seems the 2 pint/acre worked well enough to be acceptable, (well as of now it does, I am going to continue to check the area over the next week and make sure I did kill it), I also have my eye on an area at the 3 pint rate. But I'm saving a big $4.63 per acre if the two pint is acceptable in the long run. I know spend the extra $4.63 and be sure, ( I will say we spot sprayed knotweed in our zoysia collars at the 4 pint rate and it just smoked those weeds). I just used this product as a recent example, I know on other products the cost savings could be more dramatic, especially over larger acres of turf.
   
   I am wondering if anyone is using their iPads to take pictures and log them that way? I have used my iPhone so far in the same manner, but need to do something besides just leave it on the photo roll. Anyone know if I e-mail a photo off my photo roll if it would use data when I am on my wi-fi network? How is the best way to transfer photos off an iPhone to the computer? I guess that would be the advantage of having an iPhone and iPad, it would be in my cloud? (Maybe these questions are better in the technical section of the forum?) do you think I should be asking for an iPad for fathers day?
   
   Thanks!
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
2. Timothy Walker

   

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   6/15/2013 12:06 PM

   Mel - you can connect your iPhone cord to your computer and transfer them off that way - otherwise if you are on wifi you will not incur data usage from your wireless plan.

   
   
   
   
3. Melvin Waldron

   

   43 posts
   
   6/16/2013 9:06 PM

   Thanks Tim, good to know.
   
   For a large amount of pictures I should probably connect and download, maybe once I get them off, any new ones I could e-mail to myself when I get home on wi-fi so I don't get such a backlog.
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
4. Melvin Waldron

   

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   6/17/2013 7:06 AM

   Just an update, on my cost per acre of my product from above, it would be double, for some reason I took the 2.5 gallons price thinking it was the case price, so my cost per gallon was double what I thought it was and cost to treat would be double as well. Now I feel better about wanting to know what amount would be the most effective.
   
   Sorry to all my distributor friends out there who might have been getting beat up over how cheap I was getting products. I guess I need to slow down when I do my math.
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO