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Re: 2021-2022 Poppy thread [Re: openmind]
#27818883 - 06/14/22 06:14 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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I just sowed my seeds. I'm a week late but so was spring. We just stopped having freezing nights only a week ago lol.
Honestly I think it depends on light cycle. Mine seam to know around end of July that they need to flower. Than by mid August they are done.
If I'm lucky I can roll the dice on letting the pods dry for ornamental/decorative but beginning of September it starts to rain. Barely any of them are brown by than.
It's definitely a dance growing these in short grow seasons.
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Re: 2021-2022 Poppy thread [Re: MadMuncher] 1
#27844869 - 07/01/22 11:24 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: MadMuncher]
#27846008 - 07/02/22 05:36 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Nice blooms man!
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Re: The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: Nickoloxious]
#27846282 - 07/02/22 10:19 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Soon I will post pics of what happens when you plant to late, they are very small and sad. They must flower according to amount of daylight. Always get blooms around the same day every year regardless of sowing date.
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Re: The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: schmutzen]
#27848057 - 07/03/22 06:26 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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namaste said: Soon I will post pics of what happens when you plant to late, they are very small and sad. They must flower according to amount of daylight. Always get blooms around the same day every year regardless of sowing date.
Yeah, I totally was late this year too. But then again, my local farmers market had plants going for 4$ a 6 pack, so I picked up five 6 packs for like 20$, and figured what the hey. Another stand at the farmers market is selling finished huge pods... so sexy and full of latex, really nice and potent too. I should've scooped more up this year, and totally failed today and meant to get more this morning, but I've been super depressed this last week .
I'll go take some pictures now and follow it up. One of them is doing amazingly, most others are doing good, but a few are limping along - my housemates said they'd take care of them while I was gone a few weeks ago.. but like just totally failed me. I just got them in the ground too late, no excuses on my part. A few will kickass come flowering time, but a few are limping along due to housemates flopping. I remember coming back and they were like "yeah man I made sure to take care of your poppy starts!" and I go look at them, and theyre like wilting, fallen over, and limp. Oh well, it's my own fault for not getting those one's in the ground on time.
It's a nice experiment though to see how it goes, and for like 20$ total, it's not like it was any serious investment. It's a good learning experience since my first time I was able to get the plants going in starts, but not going in their final place. Now I realized I can start them in little plastic 6 packs, then transplant them at the right time, and that works best for me. It's all a learning experience, right?!
There's one of them that's a champion, I've nicknamed it Jimmy. The two strains I'm growing are Black Peony's and Purple Haze, selected for their potency.
Also side question: if one of the little ones already has an early flower (its the only one) is it wise to cut the bud off early to keep it vegging? Or just let it go.
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I've heard cutting off the first bud will produce more side shoots, like topping a tree, but haven't experimented with it myself. Not really sure but I think the amount of pods per plant may be related to the cultivar/age/amount of sunlight/ferts. Lotta variables dude.
If you're able to get a grip of seeds please consider trading with me, yours will be a hybrid of the 2, mine are straight black swans.
Pic from last year
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Re: The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: schmutzen] 1
#27848359 - 07/03/22 10:15 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Tightt, yeah man, i'll definitely do so. That's part of the whole deal too - get Black Peony x Purple haze seeds for next year to grow! I also have some Turkish Whites and Queen's Poppy seeds, which are some of the top potency's from the tables I've seen, but there just from like random vendors online, so who really knows.
These strains are directly from local farmers in my area who grow poppies for life, and are gonna be great.
I think I'm gonna cut the early flower, as it's the only one on any of them, and there will be many more.
And now I get to do readings to figure out to get max offshoots and pods! I have hundreds in my collection dried already, but I wanna be growing all my own now .
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Re: The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: schmutzen] 1
#27849084 - 07/04/22 12:35 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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namaste said: I've heard cutting off the first bud will produce more side shoots, like topping a tree, but haven't experimented with it myself. Not really sure but I think the amount of pods per plant may be related to the cultivar/age/amount of sunlight/ferts. Lotta variables dude.
If you're able to get a grip of seeds please consider trading with me, yours will be a hybrid of the 2, mine are straight black swans.
Pic from last year

IME, the amount of blooms/pods a plant produces is def related to the cultivar and overall health/sunlight/nutrition/etc the plant has.
I've had some plants in poor soil and/or crowded a bit too much that grow smaller and produce just one pod or two, other plants that had a lot of room of their own and were in much more nutritious soil that grew to be 5 to 6 feet tall and producing 3 to 5 pods each. (all of the same cultivar)
IME with black swans. They produce relatively fewer and smaller pods than the other unknown cultivar I've grown (white bloom with purple streaks on the petals), they also don't produce much latex at all, but I find the the tea made from black swan pods to have pretty good potency.
This is the top of one single plant I had last year, it produced a bunch of large pods....


Looking at these pics of my poppy patches from the last few years makes me wish I had some going this time around, darn.
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Nickoloxious said: Waiting on those purple pods to make an appearance..
https://files.shroomery.org/files/21-47/805661637-1EBC539D-4A25-44F2-AB25-6E9B925377AA.jpg
Wow, what's the classic shroomery background color, so I can say sexy things about this uh, flower, without being embarassed? Can you give me the font color code? Someone? Anyone? Don't UTFSE me. So sexy... much wow, very yes.
tell me to UTFSE, and I'll be able to tell you're watching what I search more than what I say.
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Re: 2021-2022 Poppy thread [Re: 999]
#27856520 - 07/09/22 07:52 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Shit OM - there was some poppies growing around my house that had like 10 pods per plant, I snagged one of the pods and dried them and have the seeds still. Never got to see the flowers though, so unsure of the kind. One of the bigger ones had I think like 15 pods on a single plant, was crazy. Still have those seeds, will be super interesting to grow next year and see what kinda flower comes up to tell what kinda poppy!
Makes me think I shoulda snagged the rest of the pods, dang! I was leaving them for others because I already have so many in storage.
Edited by Typerwritermonky (07/09/22 07:54 PM)
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dont take this lightly..
they are breeding. it can make you think about how many worlds have ended before, . forever sealed like strong potion or gold, like love. remember? like love
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Re: 2021-2022 Poppy thread [Re: MadMuncher] 1
#27859074 - 07/11/22 06:13 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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Those are beautiful muncher!

Most of my late plants are like this, one big pod at the time, no axillary pods :/... yet... maybe they'll pop up with another one? Hopefully!


This one is the winner. Planted late in the season, same time as all the others, but is just flourishing. This will be the one I take my seeds from!

My drip irrigation system broke yesterday.... . Been so hot lately, just one day without water made the flower bloom start drying out and shriveling at the sides.. which is strange because poppies... but its been so hot lately. Such a bummer, my heart aches a bit for it.. fucking batteries in the system that times it must've died or something. Oh well, at least I caught it in time to save them all, but that flower bloom is not happy .
But the winner will have some great seeds.. a mix between the Purple Haze and Black Peony genetics. Will be sooo awesome.
This was a nice experiment. Like I said, I spent maybe 30$ tops on the entire grow, so nothing ventured, nothing gained except some sweet pods and knowledge as well as seeds... looks like I'll end up with 30 pods from the entire grow, so I guess a dollar a pod? Just about what they sell for at my local farmers market where I usually buy my fresh pods.
Next grow, will be totally different. It's going to be some Turkish Whites, Queens Poppy, Black Peony x Purple Haze, and the mystery pods that cropped up a few blocks away from my house where each plant had like 10-12 pods on each plant. Can't wait until next year!
After this harvest, my dried poppy collection will be something around 100 pods of various poppies that are all super potent. I think i'll make some crude opium; I shred them once dry, put them in a pot with near boiling water, a little acid, and let it simmer a good long time. After a few hours, I filter the water through micron bubble bags, and then take that water and reduce it over a lower heat until its nearly a putty. Then I just let that dry via fan, scrape, and save and enjoy.
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I’ve recently sown my P.nudicaule seeds & it looks like they’re starting to take off. 

I plan on starting the P.somniferum seeds in the next couple of days.
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Re: The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: Nickoloxious]
#27861463 - 07/13/22 05:04 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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^^^
I'm starting like 48 p. somniferum starts tomorrow or the next day, trying to get one more grow cycle in this year, I should be able too if we get that classic indian summer where I live. It's gonna be a mix of turkish white, queens poppies, and the mystery super potent ones I had. As well as some of the mystery ones that I found that had like 10-15 pods per plant that were growing on the side of the sidewalk in the shittest soil ever.
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um good luck. it will be an interesting experiment. spotted a few that are still in the seedling stage in full shade under some trees. if you are far enough north it can work well sometimes. i would suggest trying to deprive them of light or growing them in full shade for a month or two in large containers that you can move to full sun when they are ready to bolt it is a full 3 weeks behind last year's big bloom in most of the places they poppup you can get lost in the puberty flavored incense something about leap years and lunar cycles while nobody is paying attention
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Re: The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: MadMuncher]
#27863410 - 07/15/22 08:08 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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the now defunct izmir farms had a cool variety that had many heads per plant! not the several plants in one tint spot so looks like 1 plant either. ahh the good ole days..
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Re: The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: the man]
#27869211 - 07/19/22 04:31 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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ive found that all varieties will produce abundant flower heads if they are treated right and spaced correctly in good soil. the veg stage is critical, maintain the leafy winter form as long as possible. some of the plants that came up this year are very intriguing as they have several different color patterns on the same plant, dont think ive seen that before.. it's hard to get pics they go so fast
idk what everybody else is doing but the only single flowered plants ive seen are rando renegades and stragglers fighting for existence in the wastelands and, and the late-comers who didnt get the handouts either you guys are all doing it wrong or like everything else though, they seem to perform better and better after adapting to a particular climate and soil for a few seasons i think they are averaging about 8-16 flowers per plant around here and i will let you know what the record is. what is everybody elses record? counted 25 heads on this one better pics coming soon..
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Re: The Official Poppy Growers Thread [Re: MadMuncher]
#27869593 - 07/19/22 09:31 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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if actually had 25 on 1 plant and wasnt multiple plants sown in one spot like in ur photo you should save those seeds! lol 3-5 in one thing but 10+ is crazy, perhaps just var ive seen and/or growing climate but dont think thats common even for well grown plants... dont see multi headed plants in botany drawings, so perhaps it was breeding, as not its "normal" state.
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