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Potato tuber damage identification guide

I was looking around and found this. Photos and links for each on the page. Particularly interesting to recognize many of the pictured symptoms on grocery store potatoes purchased in the past -- a reminder that buying certified seed potatoes to plant for growing is strongly recommended....
Potato: Maturation and Harvest: Identifying Tuber Damage Symptoms—UC IPM
https://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/C607/m607hptuberdmg.html

Tuber Damage Symptoms—Harvest
On this page
Fusarium dry rot
Bacterial soft rot
Late blight
Pink rot
Leak
Early blight
Black dot
Silver scruf
Rhizoctonia
Common scab
Powdery scab
Potato tuberworm
Flea beetles
Wireworms
Root knot nematode
Leafroll net necrosis
Thumbnail cracks
Shatter bruise
Blackspot bruise
Names link to information on identification and management.

HoneyBerry
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Just what I needed. How did you know? Thanks.

Nyan
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That is an awesome page!

I could have used that more when I used to grow a lot of spuds, but it is still good to use for evaluating seed potatoes for the little bitty plots I grow now.

Thanks!

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Penn State has a good pdf with more pictures, I got this from the kenosha potato project FB page, if you grow TPS then you need to join, lots of info from around the world about breeding. https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/Common ... 53GWSP6NtM

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Thanks! This is the same one right? I'll have to look through it first chance I get 8)

https://extension.psu.edu/publications/agrs-075

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" a reminder that buying certified seed potatoes to plant for growing is strongly recommended...."

Yes this!

Please do not plant grocery store potatoes. Also plant your taters in a plot that has not had potatoes growing in it for at least three years.



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