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Argyreia
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Opium poppy, first success. 1
#22474483 - 11/04/15 04:36 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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The whole container :

My biggest seedling :

They were sowed at the begining of september. I hope they will make it through winter. This was just an experiment and it worked out well. I'll sow a shitload of them next year in april and september.
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: Argyreia]
#22475187 - 11/04/15 09:45 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wish you luck with your overwinter start, Argyreia. I usually Sew mine in February or March, after frost danger. (at about the same time as sugar snap peas). Granted, in 2015, I started my peas in January. LOL .. but, then again its an El Ninno year.
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P.Zappatecorum
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Getting ahead of yourself? Success is when you're licking the latex off a knife.
I've heard they're pretty frost hardy. Supposedly seedlings can even get snowed on if it melts relatively quickly. I'm going to try sowing about now as last year they were a little late and could have been bigger because the early spring got a jump on me. Seems like the best poppies around town are ones that were sown in the fall, at least in my area.
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Argyreia
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I call it a success because I never went farther than the cotyledon stage  I'll try to shelter them for the winter.
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: Argyreia]
#22475843 - 11/04/15 10:53 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Good job man, wish you the best given the timing.
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: DivineO]
#22477446 - 11/04/15 05:15 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Just get some inside lights dude.
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RipvanBongBowl420
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Actually
When is the best time to plant my poppy seeds?
- Poppies should be directly sown in your garden or pot. Poppies can be sown in September; they will over-winter as a rosette and send up a shoot in the spring. It is also possible to spread seed at the end of winter to very early spring.
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RipvanBongBowl420 said: Just get some inside lights dude.
 Nah, sow them outside and let them pop up when they're ready. Unless your winter is super brutal they will have a head start in the spring and you won't have to transplant them. Now is a good time, I keep meaning to do mine but I haven't had time to weed. If you want nice big poppies with a good yield you need to sow them in the ground late fall or very early spring and leave them in place. Feed em a bit and keep them well watered in the lettuce stage then stop the nutes and back off on the watering when the days get long and hot and they start sending up tillers. My best year I was feeding high N regular miracle grow weekly and it worked great, the plants grew nice and big and while they only sent up a couple of pods per plant, those fuckers were tennis ball sized and oh so milky.
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Quote:
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RipvanBongBowl420 said: Just get some inside lights dude.
 Nah, sow them outside and let them pop up when they're ready. Unless your winter is super brutal they will have a head start in the spring and you won't have to transplant them. Now is a good time, I keep meaning to do mine but I haven't had time to weed. If you want nice big poppies with a good yield you need to sow them in the ground late fall or very early spring and leave them in place. Feed em a bit and keep them well watered in the lettuce stage then stop the nutes and back off on the watering when the days get long and hot and they start sending up tillers. My best year I was feeding high N regular miracle grow weekly and it worked great, the plants grew nice and big and while they only sent up a couple of pods per plant, those fuckers were tennis ball sized and oh so milky.

You say now is a good time. What grow zone are you in though? I had plans to start some back in sept or oct, but never got around to it and now was figuring I missed my window...
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: cowsRmeat]
#22483437 - 11/05/15 09:59 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm in the PNW. I usually sow in march, but our winters are getting so mild lately that I'm thinking late fall/early winter might be better. Last year march was too late and there were poppies way ahead of mine. The only way that's possible would be a late fall/winter sowing. So that's what I'm trying this year, it might suck. In general, sowing a few times staggered is good because you always have some flowers in bloom, ranging from early summer to late. I'll sow now, February and March.
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RipvanBongBowl420
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What would you think about the midwest? I attempted some poppies about 5 yrs ago and I just had some fluorescent plant lights on em that I got from the store. Theypopped outta seed and had gotten about 2-3" leaves but it was when I was in HS and I didnt come home for a couple days and nobody watered them. I came back and they were dry as dust lol. I think itd be cool to try now though, given I'm a bit more responsible???
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P.Zappatecorum
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Depends on your weather. Seems like the east and midwest have been getting really heavy snows the last couple years so you'd be best sowing right before the snows so the seeds just winter frozen without germinating then thaw and sprout in spring (which might reduce germination/kill some seeds if the snows are too long) or just sowing them as soon as the snow melts and ground thaws enough plant them, in February or march.
I've seen people do inside grows. For the amount of space it takes to grow a couple poppy plants and get enough pods for one tea session growing inside, you could grow a pound of weed or have a pretty nice cactus collection. Fuck that. If you want some poppies, grow outdoors in the ground, containers suck for poppies and they are really tempermental and prone to drying out in them. if you only have a few plants and don't score them (just collect pods) it's actually totally legal and in my area they are very popular plants that you see in people's yards all the time. White gigs are a little dicy, but the more showy ornamental strains attract no attention whatsoever, though they yield a bit less.
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RipvanBongBowl420
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P.Zappatecorum said: Depends on your weather. Seems like the east and midwest have been getting really heavy snows the last couple years so you'd be best sowing right before the snows so the seeds just winter frozen without germinating then thaw and sprout in spring (which might reduce germination/kill some seeds if the snows are too long) or just sowing them as soon as the snow melts and ground thaws enough plant them, in February or march.
I've seen people do inside grows. For the amount of space it takes to grow a couple poppy plants and get enough pods for one tea session growing inside, you could grow a pound of weed or have a pretty nice cactus collection. Fuck that. If you want some poppies, grow outdoors in the ground, containers suck for poppies and they are really tempermental and prone to drying out in them. if you only have a few plants and don't score them (just collect pods) it's actually totally legal and in my area they are very popular plants that you see in people's yards all the time. White gigs are a little dicy, but the more showy ornamental strains attract no attention whatsoever, though they yield a bit less.
Fuck that! lol I like the attitude. Yeah, I might have to look into it. It's crazy, but we actually still havent gotten snow yet this year! Al Gore was super cereal. I live in a industrial feel town like smack dab in the middle of the country, I honestly dont think that the officers around here would even know what to look for. Its pretty simple once you got em sprouted though? Just let em do their thing?
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P.Zappatecorum
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Yeah, like I said, I've seen p. somniferum plants for sale at local nurseries, and I've seen stands of them in people's yards all over town. Those are generally var. paeoniflorum or pepperbox, lower yielding varieties that are fine for tea but can't be lanced for shit. You could easily get away with some nice red flowered tazzies or danish flags as those look really showy when in flower so they're more obviously ornamental. I a wouldn't grow regular white, purple throat giganteums in an open space though, as they get 6 feet tall, have golf to tennis ball size pods, have plain ugly flowers that last a day to a few hours and then they just scream "yo look at me I'm full of opium!" 
Sow in with some other plants and make it nice, rather than having a monocrop that makes your yard look like mini Afghanistan and try to stick to keeping them in the back yard in a discrete flower bed and you will not run into any trouble. Remember that the second you start lancing, you are leaving evidence of criminal intent right on the pods and you could get busted. Otherwise, the growing of poppies for ornamental purposes is a common and perfectly legal practice in most states.
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Argyreia
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Some update on my poppy tries.
The seedlings survived through winter and are now growing.

I also sowed some in the ground few weeks ago and I noticed some that have popped. 
Now, according to what I've read about poppies, I see no way I could end with zero tea this year. Can't wait to try opium for the first time.
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: Argyreia]
#23111107 - 04/12/16 06:15 PM (7 years, 9 months ago) |
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Nice. Congrats. I'm hoping for a successful first time for me as well. Got some seedlings sprouted atm
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Argyreia
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: cowsRmeat]
#23252660 - 05/21/16 03:55 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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My little plants sowed in september are all flowering. They don't look good, I hope they will be able to set seeds. I also have little sprouts everywhere and 5 big salads that I sowed in late march.
Success !
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: Argyreia]
#23253163 - 05/21/16 09:30 AM (7 years, 8 months ago) |
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A little yellow at they bottom but they look good to me 
Looks to me like you'll get seeds but not much of a yeild as far as actual opium.
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Argyreia
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My tallest plant : There will be at least 7 flowers !

A strange one : Is this somniferum ? Buds are really round and the plant is not that tall. Leaves are blue and less curly.
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: Argyreia]
#23387526 - 06/27/16 11:57 AM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Argyreia said:
A strange one : Is this somniferum ? Buds are really round and the plant is not that tall. Leaves are blue and less curly.

Nice plants.
I think this one is a p.som, could just be a genetic trait which might explain the rounded leaves, but looks somi to me.
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Re: Opium poppy, first success. [Re: Argyreia]
#23387582 - 06/27/16 12:19 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hi all...
I'm curious... How much plants would you need to have a little fun with the eventual harvest?
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