Thanks, mindshift. Looked at the site last night, but has been "503" (service unavailable) when I returned for the phone number today. Believe Frontier Hybrids and Turffalo were founded by the developer of Tech Turf/Turffalo, but am hoping others were licensed to produce it over the decade he's been gone. Seems odd for it to just go away, but is not looking good... for planting this spring anyway.

Seems unlikely, but perhaps there was only one grower for Turffalo. The link I sent was to a company in southeast Texas. Most grass in Texas is farmed in that area, and the rainy weather last year may have done in this crop. The HOUSTON/GALVESTON area had 70 inches last year compared to 54 as a normal. The previous 3 years had an average of 41.6 inches. Here is another LINK I found with other BG varieties. Good luck.

The few other suppliers listing Turffalo all pointed me back to the now nonexistent Turffalo company/site. Frontier Hybrids (original cultivator) has not given up yet, but is uncertain for now that it will ever be back on the market. Looks like the other buffalo grass option most commonly sold around here (DFW) for all-female (no tall flowers) turf is 609 sod... but that's not ready yet either :(

If most of the buffalo grass is really being grown where there was over 60 inches of rain last year, imagine there could be shortages for a while.

Finally tracked down the OSU buffalo grass cultivar overview used when we first started planning to convert some lawn space and was able to refresh on our backup options for female lines. '609' and 'Density' could be obtained locally as sod (once they start cutting again), but decided to go with 'Prestige' plugs which are available now from several sources - so only delayed a week by the Turffalo fail. Hope to be tilling the green manure on the other side of the next rains.

Stewart's Nursery in Weatherford had a sign out front for Turffalo and Shadow Turf. Just another option for you.

Thanks for the lead. I'll give them a call and see what they have to say.

Spoke to someone at Stuart's by phone who said they have a few flats left from last season that they'll set out once they green up. Unfortunately their source is the same I'd started checking with, so will not be any more soon unless something changes. The person I talked with was SO nice, almost want to drive across DFW just to meet them.

Oh well.... need to go till. High Country Gardens just confirmed the 'Prestige' flats should arrive later this week.

Sorry that it didn't pan out. I love the staff at Stuart's! Just realized that I've been spelling it incorrectly, you should hear my Latin!

Ha... apparently the google didn't care. Hadn't even notice it returned a different spelling than I entered.

So my two cents. I started out using a tray of Turffalo plugs in my yard in 2014 to fill in an area which was getting a lot more intense Albuquerque sun and heat than my fescue could handle. It did fill in, and I was impressed by how soft and water thrifty the Turffalo was. My disappointment was that I thought it was just a female plug variety. I didn't know they were using male plants (with their flower stalks) as well.

In 2015 I decided to rip my yard out completely and replace it with buffalo grass. Since my Turffalo was already in, I figured the cheapest way to establish the yard was use buffalo grass seed. I called Curtis & Curtis Seed Co. out of Clovis NM, and they recommended a new breed recently released by the University of Nebraska called "Sundancer". I ordered a pound, and spread it in the yard. I have to tell you this stuff is even better than Turffalo. It has a darker green than Turffalo, it woke up sooner from winter dormancy than Turffalo, and it seems the length between nodes on the stolons are significantly shorter, therefore filling in thicker. I'd say almost as well as bermuda.

Anyway all this to say if you're considering Turffalo, I'd say save your $$$ and buy Sundancer buffalo seed and use that to establish the yard instead. You'd get better results.

Timothy, We were dealing with only 300 to 400 square feet, so considered plugs or sod to avoid the tall male flowers. Had been told the Turffalo plugs were female only, but have since seen a few other contradictions. Would not have been happy to get male turf for the cost/effort of using vegetatively reproduced plugs.... so Turffalo being NLA is starting to look like good fortune.

Thanks for the tip on 'Sundancer' seed. Nice to know about if we ever tackle a larger lawn space. We ended up planting 'Prestige' plugs (another U. of Nebraska cultivar) at 12" spacing in early April which are just now filling in nicely.

Our situation is we already have half a yard filled in with Turffalo and we don't want to start over, but fill in more of the yard. My wife thought we could try making our own plugs from our existing grass. I think it would work, but wonder if anyone else has tried it? Is there a "plugging tool" or should we just use a trowel?

Have used a hand bulb planter to transplant plugs of St Augustine. Inexpensive, but soil moisture has to be just right for it to work well on clay. I just use a sharpshooter when it's too dry (hard) for hand-tools. Not bad for a small area (or a big area a little at a time), but would probably spend the money on a foot assisted turf plugger if doing a lot at once. Agree it should also work with buffalograss.

Sorry you got caught on Turffalo with half a lawn left to change out. As well as buffalograss spreads when happy, seems you should be able to get the rest covered with what you have already. We're letting the 'Prestige' grow into the beds for now and will transplant the pieces we dig out when we install the edging this winter.

I sent a message to Coulter Gardens & Nursery, one of the where-to-buy places listed on the Turffalo website. Here's the reply I received: "Turffalo was female dark green buffalo grass plug company out [of] Plainview tx. It went out of business in 2017-18. No other sources on female buffalo plugs."

I think wordbuilder answered the questions last summer. Too bad I didn't see this post 7 years ago. I used to drive past Frontier Seed 4x per month commuting to a job I had. I stopped in and got a tour and a bunch of caps. So yes, they did stop selling grass seed to concentrate on their farm seed supplies. And yes, the Turffalo was a variety with seed stalks. What was different about Turffalo was that it grew very dense to keep out weeds, it grew fast, and the seed stalks grew roughly at the same speed as the grass itself. That means the grass did get a brown tinge, but it never looked shaggy like seeded forms of buffalo. Here's a picture of Turffalo in serious need of mowing.

You can see the seed heads and you can see it trying to grow across the pavement.

The Prestige Buffalo grass plugs we went with in place of nla Turffalo have been great - with one exception I suspect is common to all Buffalo grass strains: it can be badly burned by pet urine. Doesn't kill it, but will degrade its appearance through much of the growing season. We've kept it and like it in our small backyard lawn, but went with Palisades Zoysia when we replanted the front to avoid the burned spots in our neighborhood of dog enthusiasts.

A Hoffman Nursery blog post gave a good summary of our main reason for sticking with female plugs/sod for an urban buffalo grass lawn: Buffalo Grass is dioecious, with male and female flowers on separate plants. The male flowers are on small, comb-like spikes that hover above the foliage. Female flowers cluster on short stems down in the leaves.

While they also mentioned that they like the look of the taller male flowers, we didn't think they'd work in our urban lawn setting and we'd end up mowing more often to keep any male flower heads down.

For the dog spots, try dropping a heaping handful of table sugar on each spot. Water it down (not away) and give that 3 weeks to work and see if the grass doesn't return growing greener and taller than the surrounding grass.