Crop programmes
Read the season the way our field team does.
Each programme is Phytotron's published schedule for the crop: stages on a real scale, the product at each stage, its rate and the reason it is there.
Grapes
October pruning is the only pruning that sells fruit. Twelve sprays, prune to harvest: flower number is fixed by 30 days after pruning (30 DAP), fertility by 45 days (45 DAP), berry cell number by 75 days (75 DAP), sugar by 100 days (100 DAP), every decision inside the next 120 days is irreversible.
Pomegranate
The pomegranate programme runs from basal PSR before pruning to the Raseek + Tulip ripening pass 60 days before harvest, with the disease-shield pair in four stages after pruning.
Mango
Mango runs on the calendar: basal PSR before monsoon, phosphorus before flowering in June-July, Tulip at flowering in December, and the Raseek + Tulip ripening pass 65-70 days before harvest.
Banana
Banana is a drip crop: four Vinsol P-44 fertigations at 30-day intervals, Zillon at 12-15, 30 and 45 days after planting (12-15, 30, 45 DAP) because banana suffers vector-spread viral disease, the disease-shield pair early, and Cordex-P when the bunch emerges.
Chilli
Chilli has its own programme, apart from the general vegetable sheet: PSR Granules 50 kg per acre before planting, Vinsol P-44 by drip at 3, 4 and 3 kg per acre, Zillon at 12, 30 and 45 days after planting (12, 30, 45 DAP) against leaf curl and mosaic, three Tulip sprays 15 days apart from flowering, and the disease shield in two passes with an SOS after 45 days.
Capsicum
Capsicum, in the open field, under shade-net or in a polyhouse, runs the chilli programme: PSR Granules 50 kg per acre before planting, Vinsol P-44 by drip at 3, 4 and 3 kg per acre, Zillon at 12, 30 and 45 days after planting (12, 30, 45 DAP) against leaf curl and mosaic, three Tulip sprays 15 days apart from flowering, PhytoCal twice for the fruit, and the disease shield in two passes with an SOS after 45 days.
Tomato · onion · okra · vegetables
The vegetable programme is short and front-loaded: PSR before planting, three Vinsol P-44 drip doses in the first five weeks, Zillon at 12-15, 30 and 45 days after planting (12-15, 30, 45 DAP) because these crops suffer leaf curl and yellow mosaic, and the disease shield through flowering. Chilli and capsicum have their own programmes.
Cotton
Cotton sits in the leaf-curl belt, so Zillon runs from 12-15 days after sowing (12-15 DAS). The rest of the programme is built from label schedules: Setall for retention and boll set, Winstop against vegetative runaway, Stasis for stress. Rates as on the product labels; check with our farm specialist before you spray.
Soybean
Soybean is a yellow mosaic virus crop, so Zillon runs from 12-15 days after sowing (12-15 DAS). The rest is built from label schedules: PSR before sowing, Stasis through vegetative growth, Winstop at flowering. Rates as on the product labels; check with our farm specialist before you spray.