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they look alright, but they'd do a lot better with more light, less water and some weeding 

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You should have seen the weeds before!

And they get plenty of light, but yes more is always better, but why did you say less water???

They havent even formed a bud yet , and they need their N and I like way the look after the horse poo water
And right now some N is critical.

Peace

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And they get plenty of light, but yes more is always better, but why did you say less water???

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I only say that because poppies like the ground to dry out between waterings, the ones in your pics look like they're gonna have weak stems and wont be able to hold more than a couple flowers/pods as it is. I don't have any pics of my larger grows, but the ones I've had in prime spots were generally much larger/leafier/bushier when they were at that stage.


There's a plant that came up on it's own, I never watered or weeded, but it had a decent amount of light, as you can see it stayed dense and bushy and put out lots of flowers. it was still only about half the size of the bigger poppies that had full sun the year before, each of those yielded 10-20 pods/flowers or so. they like it dry, light and hot when they get to the cabbage stage.

DH

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ones in your pics look like they're gonna have weak stems and wont be able to hold more than a couple flowers/pods as it is. 

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I understand you reasoning , but I dont see that happening, last year with sickly plants in pots I saw quite nice pods(and more then one , this year I am sure I will be happ with these plants, but hey I could be wrong, but the pictures latter this year will tell the story.

I am sure I wont be let down.