A method of controlling or preventing pathogenic damage or pest damage in a plant propagation material, a plant, parts of a plant and/or plant organs that grow at a later point in time, which comprises applying on the plant, part of the plant, or surroundings thereof, a pesticidal combination comprising, for example, at least three active ingredient components optionally together with one or more customary formulation auxiliaries, wherein component (I) is one or more of an -azole fungicide, component (II) is one or more of a phenylamide fungicide, component (III) is one or more of a strobilurin fungicide and/or one or more of a phenylpyrrole fungicide, in any desired sequence or simultaneously.