Potato Growth Stages

Growth Stage Problem Solutions
Crop day -14) Pre-irrigate beds with overhead irrigation (1–1.5”). Wait for dry down and weed emergence.

Nematodes Biotrine
  Weeds WeedAll
GlyphoMax
  Lack of organic Matter Chikola
(crop day -3) Cut potato seed in preparation for planting.   Tuber Moth LycoMax (dipping)
(crop day -1) Work bed surface lightly with cultivator to terminate weeds and re-form beds.   Emerged Weeds AgriQuat
(crop day 0) (Establishment) Seed Bourne Disease      

Nematodes
Dynamic
Nugro
Exculibur Gold  
Agrioxamyl GR
  Lack of good starter nutrients   Activate tuber*    
  Tuta Absoluta
Aphids
Potato Tuber Moth  
Recharge      
  Poor Water and Nutrient PlantCatalyst
     
  uptake and utilisation Perenual Weeds (Before emergence)   Metri SC
Rimus Super  
  Sucking Pest (Aphids, Benefit
Biotrine
Fizimite
  Bad soil conditions and poor root development Marinure DS
(crop day 11) First Weed flash Rimus WP
Agriquat
  Tuta absoluta, Tuber Moth  Biorine
Antario  
  Early Blight, Late Blight Omega
Dynamic
  Poor Water and Nutrient PlantCatalyst
Crop day 14 Stolon Establishment Week 2 Weeds
Soil Diseases
Exculibur Gold
Dynamic
Nugro
  Poor growth(cell division)
Poor Flowering    
Nutrigro P
Marinure DS
New Marinure CalMag B  
  Tuta, Aphids, Tuber Moth, Cutworms Biotrine
Benefit
  Foliar Diseases (Early Blight , Late Blight, Omega, Epoxi Gold, Strobi Gold Dynamic
  Poor Water and Nutrient PlantCatalyst
Crop day 21   Week 3 Poor plant Establishment Nutrigro P Marinure DS New Marinure CalMag B  
  Foliar Diseases (Early Blight , Late Blight, Omega,
Epoxi Gold,
Strobi Gold
Dynamic  
  Cutworm Benefit
Biotrine
LycoMax
(crop days 30, Week 4     Poor stolon Initiation Marinure DS
New Marinure CalMag B  
  Poor Water and Nutrient PlantCatalyst
(crop day 40) Week 5 Reduced crop health (Less SAR(Systemic Aquired Resistance Exculibur Gold
Dynamic
Nugro
  Tuta Absoluta, Thrips, Bollworm Benefit
Biotrine
Fizimite
  Foliar Diseases (Early Blight , Late Blight, Omega, Epoxi Gold, Strobi Gold Dynamic
  Poor Water and Nutrient PlantCatalyst
Week 6 Flowering & Tuber initiation) Poor tuber filling Nutrigro K
  Poor Water and Nutrient PlantCatalyst
  Tuber Moth
Aphids
Biotrine
LycoMax
Benefit
  Diseases   Omega
Dynamic
Week 7 Poor tuber filling Nutrigro K
  Diseases Dynamic
  Tuber Moth Biotrine,
LycoMax
Week 8 Tuber Filling   Poor tuber filling Nutrigro K
  Diseases Dynamic
  Tuber Moth
Aphids
Biotrine
LycoMax
Benefit
Week 9 to Week 15 Tuber Filling Poor tuber filling Nutrigro K
  Diseases Dynamic
  Tuber Moth Aphids Biotrine
LycoMax
Benefit
Week 16 to 18 (crop days 120, 140) Harvest Maturity Killing the Potato culm AgriQuat
  Tuber Moth Biotrine