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ChuangTzu
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Poppy Harvest Time!!!

#2955798 - 08/02/04 10:34 AM (19 years, 8 months ago)

[NOTE: READ THE WHOLE THREAD. THESE ARE NOT OPIUM POPPIES]

It's finally poppy harvesting time here and in backyards everywhere pods are bursting with their bitter sap.

Last week I started my harvest. These poppies were cut from a 1.5m square area:

Slicing wasn't possible in this case so I chose what I thought was the next best option and just cut the pods off a few tens of centimeters down the stem to be taken home and sliced ASAP. I have done this a few times with fairly poor yield when compared with on-plant slicing. This time I tried a different technique. Instead of slicing the pods in the traditional manner used with on-plant harvests as I usually do, I just cut off the bottom of the pod near the stem. This effectively slices all of the vertical veins running through the pod and results in a massive, instantaneous outflow of sap:

The freshly cut head was held over a Pyrex dish allowing the first drops to be collected separately from the slower moving (and, as we will see, more potent) flow. The drops can be seen in the right of the previous picture. The glass plate made for easy removal of the dry product. In the picture you can also see that a not unsubstantial amount of opium is coming out of the parts that were cut off. Incidentally, the pic was taken after the opium had started to dry, as can be seen from the pinkish tint.

Here is another picture of the sap at a later stage of drying:

After the sap dried it was easily scraped off the bottom of the pods with a knife and from the plate with a scalpel blade:

There you can see the difference between the lighter first drippings and the black sap that oozed out much more slowly.

Here is all of the black fraction on a knife:

And some of the lighter stuff up close:

And a pretty shitty pic of the finished products:

I might start harvesting all of my poppies this way since the combined yield was over a gram from around 20 pods. I've never had this much success with either on-plant slicing or off-plant vertical cuts. And it's the only way I know of to immediately obtain two grades. If anyone is wondering why you'd want to do this, consider: the lighter stuff, although still strong and quite smokeable, is around two times less potent than the black stuff (determined through qualitative analysis. : ) Since both were produced in about equal quantities, this means that if they were combined, as they would be in a usual harvest, the product would be 25% less potent than the black fraction I obtained. Therefore "the black" should be about 33% more potent relative to normally harvested opium from these plants.

I'll just say this is the strongest opium I've ever smoked...

And it tastes like fudge. :smile:

Edited by ChuangTzu (08/03/04 10:07 AM)

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