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Opioids How to proceed with poppies

I eat the pods whole myself but that is not a common practice. Finding the sweet spot when they are ready is tricky too, I always hear 3 days after the petals have fallen off but find at least a week or two after to let the opiate concentration grow.

Lancing and milking take a bit of practice you can read how to guides but it comes down to trial and error unfortunately. I would also warn you to be very careful when you are letting it dry as this turns what you are doing into a felony (well technically it always is but you can't say you where growing them for their looks if caught) you might be better of milking them then ripping the plant out and keeping them indoors. This way you only get one milking though when you can get multiple if you know what you are doing.

Honestly as an opiate addict opium is more of a novelty than anything else. It doesn't hit the spot since you need to smoke so much of it.
 
I found the best time was when the pods got a "dusty" white look to them about 10-18 days after petal drop with some variance between strains. An exacto #10 blade or hobby scalpel with tape wrapped around it as a depth guide at the 1.5mm mark worked quite well. sometimes diagonal slicing worked well too. As far as the hysteria in the late 80's the DEA raided Thomas Jefferson's Monticello museum and ripped out all the poppies and took all the seeds of Jefferson's own breeding and they were never sold again.

But in Washington state they grow wild..everywhere so it's kind of pointless and futile as most anti-drug "operations" are. Not very many cases exist where people actually got jail time though other than an immigrant couple from the Hmong region of vietnam that planted an empty lot full of them and openly harvested. Oh this too in the carolina's of all places: https://www.bluelight.org/vb/thread...s-Worth-Opium-Poppies-in-North-Carolina-Field
 
That was two small piles the TV presenter was next too for $1/2 Billion. Think I'm sitting on a gold mine here :)
Must go, I've a home in the Bahamas to buy :)
 
Jekyl Anhydride said:
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god damn man i have never seen such beauty
plus i'm also hard as rock
#flowerporn
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So I decided to check up on my poppies that I had foolishly left hanging in my garage. Long story short they are all covered with a white powdery mould. I assume that this isn't a desired result.

Is all lost? Can I strip the outer casing and still save the pods?

I could kick myself!
 
You're screwed.... You don't harvest opium like you would cannabis buds. The skin of the pod should be slit, but not the inner casing when the petals fall off and the crown is pointing up. When they stop bleeding you extract the pods with a water wash and filter after you extract the seeds.
 
I actually found a patch of poppies recently. When sliced i could see
That collecting the latex was too much work. I'm in MMT anyways. But we just cut down a bunch of unscored pods and my friends made tea out of them with excellent results.

I'd say poppy pod tea is the way to go when one has their own pods growing.
 
Man just take the freaking minimal effort to bleed the pods even if you don't want to smoke the opium as you can manage your tea dose better. This sloppy work is what makes opiate dependant people look like junkie fiends... If I space to grow a few poppies even if I barely yielded much I'd make filtered opium. It is worth doing to see how much effort it takes to support a habit... I'd start bringing up isolating the morphine and converting it, but I can't discuss it even too further my point.
 
Often dried "decorative" (lol) poppies that were available through the net / mail order would arrive with several colors of mold, seepage spots, bruises, etc, basically looking like they were found out of some archeological site but if you scrub the outsides with a brillo type green/ yellow kitchen sponge and proceed with a longer than usual boil after grinding you might find that not all is lost. In the middle east opium caches last for up to a decade, usually harvested and dried properly but still, opium is a concoction of fairly durable alkaloids and there shouldn't be any reason that all is lost. Before Ion exchange resins became popular opium was heated at 85-90*C for hours for M separation so your not going to destroy it with an hour at 95-100*C. Now if you find webbing and a bad odor + heavy mold on the inside of your pod then I would proceed with far more caution.

As with most things there is always a learning curve so don't beat yourself up about it, crying over spilt milk and all that.
 
Thanks Jekyl, just the advice I was looking for.

tacodude if you had checked the rest of the thread you'd see the advice was to make tea. I have next year and better preparation that will yield opium.
 
at the very least you still have the seeds of them pods, so not all ​is lost right?
 
keeping said:
at the very least you still have the seeds of them pods, so not all ​is lost right?
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That's something at least.

I've cleaned them off and they are now in a properly dry area, (away from the others) and will harvest the seeds and see what else I can do - nothing ventured nothing gained :)
 
Nothing to add but damn this is interesting, I had this idea a while ago but ended up scrapping it. Sorry to hear about your pods though!
 
nuube said:
I've cleaned them off and they are now in a properly dry area, (away from the others) and will harvest the seeds and see what else I can do - nothing ventured nothing gained :)
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just keep on trucking mate :)
you can either plant the seeds or maybe, if you have enough, use them to make poppy seed tea?
best of luck
 
keeping said:
just keep on trucking mate :)
you can either plant the seeds or maybe, if you have enough, use them to make poppy seed tea?
best of luck
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I'd avoid using pods covered with mold in any way for consumption related purposes. Getting at the seed to try a new crop, with an eye to segregating seeds from larger/smaller pods, is really the only way to salvage the situation.
 
^ i defer to the wisdom of my colleague
plant them suckas (ツ
 
I also loved sorting the seeds by pod size. I totally forgot to mentin the mold issue (I think) in my earlier posts. It's a similar issue with curing cannabis I believe.

Personally I have eaten plenty of pods that probably were a bit moldy, but it's really best avoided (heroin dependency can lead to some unfortunately desperate practices under present circumstances). Who knows if it's a particularly poisonous type of mold, or if one has some unknown allergy and goes into shock. Ugh. No thanks.
 
toothpastedog said:
Who knows if it's a particularly poisonous type of mold, or if one has some unknown allergy and goes into shock. Ugh. No thanks.
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aha, harm reduction 101: 'do not ingest unknown, possibly poisonous mold or fungal spores.'
we got this :D
 
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