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skiddy
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Lighting for opium poppies
#14315013 - 04/19/11 12:16 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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okay i recently ordered 1x 100watt and 1x 70watt growlux bulbs will 170 watts be enought to get these plants through the life cycle to opium harvest ?
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EthnoHorter
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Re: Lighting for opium poppies [Re: skiddy]
#14339797 - 04/23/11 05:54 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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You'll certainly be fine for the first month of the plant's lives. You can get wonderful grow CFL lights at any hardware store. Get bright white bulbs, 70-100 watt. You can very easily wire 3 or 4 of them onto a coat hanger or something. To really produce enough active chemical, the more light the better.
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Mary Jayne
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Re: Lighting for opium poppies [Re: EthnoHorter]
#14340638 - 04/23/11 09:03 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Poppies do not do well indoors. They do great in direct sunlight; I live in Arizona where's is hot and sunny and have them in direct light all day and they are massive and lush as long as I keep them watered.
I would like to say CFLs wouldn't work... these plants would be lanky and deprived of what it needs to pack fatter seed pods. An HID lamp would probably yield decent results... but you could only have so many plants and the lights & powerbill aren't worth it.
By the way, I grow Persian Whites, Hens & Chicks, and another variety of P. Somn. A fairly large plant makes enough opium for about one dose of tea. Not really worth doing unless you do it outdoors anyways... I don't even choose to harvest mine as I only have around 10 plants.
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EthnoHorter
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Re: Lighting for opium poppies [Re: Mary Jayne]
#14349561 - 04/25/11 03:04 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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I don't disagree that poppies prefer the bright light of the sun, but if you plan on scoring your poppies for their latex you'd better have them indoors. I know personally of one person who was incarcerated after an officer found that his garden's poppies were scored. Additionally, indoor cultivation allows year-round growth. West facing windows will provide strong afternoon sun that will help your florescently lit plants to flourish.
When using CFLs, it is important to maximize their efficiency by placing them as close to the plants as possible without burning the leaves.
Apical meristem priuning (pinching the tops) will keep the plants shorter and bushier, reducing your lighting problems. Though I must say I have not personally pruned back somniferum in this way.
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