"In and of itself, I'm curious how the wetting agent would "firm up" the greens?"
Craig:
It's a coincidence you ask that because our super is so impressed with the results from the use of a wetting agent that the subject became my "question of the month" at our last green committee meeting.
(I'll tell you what my "question of the month" is some other time.
).
Our super explained to the green committee exactly how a wetting agent works on the plant and why it results in firming up the course but I'm such a dunce and so untechnical agronomically I can't exactly repeat the agronomic technicalities of it. However, I will get him to write it down and I'll put it on here.
From a layman's point of view, however, the wetting agent basically creates a process with the plant whereby the plant recieves and uses irrigation so much more efficiently and effectively that the need for and use of irrigation is seriously minimized.
Consequently, that works to firm the course up.
By the way, he uses the wetting agent right through our irrigation system.