[Betterhaff]

Pretty cool…starting to look like the Little Shop of Horrors.

[Phaeton]

Here are a couple links.
The first is a source of inexpensive seeds. After this short tutorial I expect others may want to add a Poppy to their garden.
Second is outdoor poppy growing areas in the USA and Federal Law concerning growing opium poppies in America.

Using the reverse lighting, veg at 12/12 and flower at 18/6, the same nutrients can also be used.
General Hydroponics three part is being used. Watering is done from the same reservoir. Any system made for marijuana can be used for poppy.

https://www.onestoppoppyshoppe.com/p...danish-flag-b8
https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/...er/somniferum/

[Phaeton]

First flower showed up 84 days after germination.
Seedpods should be done in about six weeks if memory serves.
The petals only appeared hours ago, the inside cannot yet be seen.

[Bongi]

I did try to cultivate this beautiful flower but my seedlings died. Does anyone know why this might happend? Is there some kind of special envoirment or soil that seedlings need?

I can get seeds of var. Tasmania, Afghan blue, Big joe, The Giant, Sissinghurst White and Danebrog. Is any of these well suited for indoor cultivation?

Phaeton you grow Danish flag or Daneborg indoors right? Did you mean by milligram of extract the latex or alkaloids? Is this number from your own experiments?

I think I will use led lighting because I can add them to end of arm and then place the light to shine to bods and to leaves. I think this is better idea than illuminating plant from one distance.

How many watts of lighting I should use for bods or leaves? How far away? I dont have light meter.

[Phaeton]

Poppies use a lot more light than marijuana. The seedlings need full light from before they emerge.
Starting forty jiffy pots of poppies and rinsing all the dirt off one each day showed a half inch seedling with up to eighteen inch roots all thinner than hairs on my arm. No transplanting those safely.
It takes a lot of energy to grow roots that long, but the thinness requires length.
In these photos a 1000 watt veg area (4' by 4') had another 540 watts added for best growth. This is a bit too much for the marijuana plant usually in the spot. Poppy vegging is done in the bud room, the container with the seedling is put even with the top of the marijuana plants for proper intensity.

Three days after first flower the petals have fallen off and a green seed pod is maturing.
Meanwhile another 14 flower pods have opened. Only 53 to go in the seven gallon container.
The three gallon container was allowed an extra week of veg but still is undersized in comparison. The seven gallon container has three plants, each of which exceeds the single plant in the three gallon container.
When the seed pod is ripe the seeds will be counted.

The seed pods have the equivalent effect of 4 mg of morphine sulfate if eaten whole so they should be kept out of reach of children until too dry to eat.
This should be easy as the pods dry on the stems, allowing the autumn winds to disperse the seeds only when blowing hard.
Outdoor strains use a single pod 4' to 6' above the ground, dwarf strains use multiple pods closer to the ground.

[oldbootz]

Phaeton amazing pics!

[Bud Green Sr.]

VERY easy to grow them outdoors.
They grow way better in my shitty native sandy red clay than in the nice soil I originally made for them.
Scatter the seeds in December or January, right on top of broken up ground.
They will sprout tiny seedlings by late February to mid March..
Do not worry if it snows a foot deep on top of the seedlings.. They love it..

Here's a few pictures from last April and May..
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[Phaeton]

Looks similar to https://www.onestoppoppyshoppe.com/p...s-pink-dawn-f7 which are a foot too tall for my indoor garden area.

I have acquaintances trying to convince me to put poppies in the failed tunnel greenhouse. Too cool for marijuana, the poppies should grow fine.
BUT... that 'knowing' and 'intent' thing with a tunnel full of poppy plants is worrisome. Marijuana is more than halfway legal, Poppy is less than halfway legal.

[Betterhaff]

That whole “knowing and intent” thing is crazy and ambiguous. Really a lot left to interpretation and by whom. What if you’re “knowingly” growing for seed?

[Phaeton]

The little 1" pod posted above was way early so It got plucked and eaten. A good scratch feels so fine once again, it has been a few years since growing poppies. The photo below has six more pods with upright crowns. The seeds inside are the size and color (clear) of trichomes at this point.
Over fifty more pods and flowers will develop over the next few weeks.

"Intent" depends on whether or not the grower is being noticed and why. A couple of indoor plants, even with a jar full of pods is not something a federal agency cares about.
No scoring, no grinding, no slurry, but if the agency involved was angry already then just having a seedling would be "knowingly" growing.

"...crazy and ambiguous." yep, that is them by design.