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Shroomers420


Registered: 01/09/24
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Outdoor poppies update + looking for advice on how to proceed.
#28623720 - 01/16/24 04:41 PM (11 days, 3 hours ago) |
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I have about two dozen poppies that are about a month and a half old and are still small, about two-inch leaves. I brought them inside because it's going to get to 11 degrees. They are all in pots. But I need an outdoor home for them
What I want to do, is find a spot to guerilla grow them, because it's too risky here. 5 other peoples windows can see them and with plant ID apps and easy access to crazy zoom on a phone, growing poppies where I live now is not an option because of paranoia.
It normally doesn't get that cold here, but what if it does. If they are in the ground, they will survive right? Because the soil will be nowhere near 11degreesF except right at the top? Or? will the low temps kill the crown of the plant?
what are the best way to protect outdoor poppies from cold and deer especially if it's a guerilla grow?
If I do find a spot to guerilla grow them I don't want to waste the effort if they are just going to die from cold. I'm around zone 6b-7a where I live currently if that helps.
Any advice? I don't want to just toss them, but I also don't want to catch a charge for something that should never be illegal in the first place. Apologies for so many questions and thank you !
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Bardy


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Re: Outdoor poppies update + looking for advice on how to proceed. [Re: Shroomers420]
#28623855 - 01/16/24 06:57 PM (11 days, 50 minutes ago) |
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You should plant at the end of winter so that they don’t have to deal with too much cold, if that even worries them. I think they can handle anything as long as they aren’t frozen. Frost will probably fuck them up.
Early spring is the time for sowing.
Otherwise… I wouldn’t be too concerned about people seeing your poppies. They’ll most likely just think you’re growing flowers. People don’t really give a shit about poppies. If you were growing weed in your window it would be a different story.
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Towns77
Registered: 10/08/23
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Re: Outdoor poppies update + looking for advice on how to proceed. [Re: Bardy]
#28624213 - 01/17/24 05:35 AM (10 days, 14 hours ago) |
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Dang, I'm surprised that you even got them that far!
I'm in zone 7B, and poppies will not survive the winter outdoors here, period!
I'd just get some cheap grow lights, and keep them indoors until next month, or March even.
The best time to start poppies in any zone under 8, is to start them in late February, early March, for an early summer harvest
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Shroomers420


Registered: 01/09/24
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Re: Outdoor poppies update + looking for advice on how to proceed. [Re: Towns77]
#28624383 - 01/17/24 09:44 AM (10 days, 10 hours ago) |
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Thanks Bardy and Towns77.
I see now the error of my ways! I think I will keep them inside maybe but it's taking lots of space.
I too am surprised they survived this long too, because it got down to 25 here. This strain supposedly is from India.
I also disagree Bardy- some people DO care about poppies, especially nosy ass Karen neighbors who I already have disagreements with. They would love nothing better than to call the cops on me while behind the blinds with binoculars for some poppies, even before they even flower.
Can someone clarify the law in the USA? From what I understand, even possessing any amount of plant material fresh or dried from the poppy plant is Schedule one Narcotics.
I do agree with you Bardy, MOST people don't care. but for people with enemies, it would be dumb to grow poppies in your own yard within eyesight of anyone that is.
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Towns77
Registered: 10/08/23
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Re: Outdoor poppies update + looking for advice on how to proceed. [Re: Shroomers420]
#28624531 - 01/17/24 12:26 PM (10 days, 7 hours ago) |
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No problem 
When I used to grow poppies, I grew all kinds of other wildflowers in with them to hide them.
I also grew lots of non active poppies too, and I never had any problems.
True story! The last year that I grew some, I had big old Giganteum poppies in full bloom, with a combination of pods and flowers on the plants.
Well, I was in my backyard tending to everything, and a cop walked up to my fence out of nowhere, and he asked me if I saw anybody run through my neighbors yard. They were looking for an escaped convict or something he stated.
I was scared to death, but you know what? He didn't know a poppy from a powdered doughnut, and he was like thanks and he walked through all the neighbors yards looking around then he left. I mean, he was hanging over my fence, inches from some huge pods, for crying out loud!
So yeah, you are overthinking it buddy, nobody cares about a few poppies and 99% of people, even the cops, don't even know what one is, I guarantee.
Same thing actually happened with a bunch of Lophophora cacti on my porch too, but that is another story....
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Edited by Towns77 (01/17/24 12:34 PM)
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Towns77
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Re: Outdoor poppies update + looking for advice on how to proceed. [Re: Towns77]
#28624553 - 01/17/24 12:36 PM (10 days, 7 hours ago) |
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Also, poppies just look like salad greens until they bloom. Just grow some indoors greens and other plants in with them to disguise them until it warms up or something
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Shroomhunts
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Re: Outdoor poppies update + looking for advice on how to proceed. [Re: Shroomers420]
#28633916 - 01/25/24 12:05 AM (2 days, 19 hours ago) |
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Quote:
Shroomers420 said: I have about two dozen poppies that are about a month and a half old and are still small, about two-inch leaves. I brought them inside because it's going to get to 11 degrees. They are all in pots. But I need an outdoor home for them
What I want to do, is find a spot to guerilla grow them, because it's too risky here. 5 other peoples windows can see them and with plant ID apps and easy access to crazy zoom on a phone, growing poppies where I live now is not an option because of paranoia.
It normally doesn't get that cold here, but what if it does. If they are in the ground, they will survive right? Because the soil will be nowhere near 11degreesF except right at the top? Or? will the low temps kill the crown of the plant?
what are the best way to protect outdoor poppies from cold and deer especially if it's a guerilla grow?
If I do find a spot to guerilla grow them I don't want to waste the effort if they are just going to die from cold. I'm around zone 6b-7a where I live currently if that helps.
Any advice? I don't want to just toss them, but I also don't want to catch a charge for something that should never be illegal in the first place. Apologies for so many questions and thank you !

Bro you can literally just grow them as an ornamental, go get a couple shakers of seeds from any grocery store, before spring and scatter them in some potting soil with other types of wildflowers, nobody is gonna bother you about it just don’t be out there lancing them lol they come back every year I’ve had mine forever
Edited by Shroomhunts (01/25/24 12:07 AM)
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