Collecting the sap from opium poppy pods

[Bleaney]

I never have been, nor ever will be, fuckin middle class! I'm just getting old.

Anyway, most of the so called 'middle class' are just working class cunts with a bit of money and ideas above their station.

So I was correct in my impression that you wouldn't like being called middle class.

No offence intended, it was just meant to be a bit of banter. Although it appears my banter skills have not improved any .

Anyway, back to the subject of the OP, to my surprise the other day I found that poppy pods do still bleed when they have freshly been snipped off from the plant, with a bit of stem included. Although it seems obvious that they would bleed more if they were still attached to the whole plant, and so had much larger sources of latex production to draw from, rather than just a bit of stem. Obviously I'm not a plant scientist though, (w/e the correct title for one of them is) but this just seems to be a matter of common sense?

Cba with all the faff of latex gathering though, although in the end this years grow has gone better than it looked like it would do, and I may have been able to collect enough raw latex for at least 1 good brew.

Another thing that goes against that is my kratom use, I swear it's worse than methadone or bupe for clinging to the opiate receptors and blocking them for a long time. In my experience, it's anything from 1-2 weeks post kratom before I can feel anything from DHC again, so I'll have to take a kratom break soon, otherwise I may well not feel anything from my PPT, if and when I get round to making a brew out of the pods.

I have not managed to time my kratom break correctly to coincide with the time where I might be able to collect enough raw latex. So I'll have to go the PPT route instead.

The strains I have grown this year are meant to be high in alkaloids so I am greatly looking forward to sampling the effects.

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

So I was correct in my impression that you wouldn't like being called middle class.

No offence intended, it was just meant to be a bit of banter. Although it appears my banter skills have not improved any .

Bloody hell mate, you'd have to try a lot harder than that to offend me


Let us know the results of your sampling.

 

[Bleaney]

Bloody hell mate, you'd have to try a lot harder than that to offend me


Let us know the results of your sampling.

Yeah, sometimes it's hard to pick up the exact emotional tone of online messages.

And yes I will let you know the results.

 

[axe battler]

Ah you middle class twats with houses that have gardens n shit!
I please keep us posted on your grows, harvests and how strong you found them to be, even if it's subjective.

 

[Bleaney]

Will do, Axe.

 

[OpialiciouslyMe]

You could just pick up the pods and dry them and then make "tea" with them. Should be potent if the poppies are opium poppies. Once dried grind them and dose the powder. You'll have a more uniform product that way. A couple of table spoons should be more than enough.

I don't recommend eating the sludge. Once I did and it was literally INSTANT vomit. Just filter it out with coffee filters.

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

Last year was the first time I hadn't grown poppies for about 10 years. So I just wandered around picking ripe pods from my estate.

12 in a brew blew my tits off. Speedy as fuck, lasted all day and night.

 

[axe battler]

Last year was the first time I hadn't grown poppies for about 10 years. So I just wandered around picking ripe pods from my estate.

12 in a brew blew my tits off. Speedy as fuck, lasted all day and night.

Does there seem to be a specific colour or shape of petals to go for or did you not discriminate?
Just I seem to see quite a variety of strains kicking about, but when the petals drop off the pods all look the same.

 

[F.U.B.A.R.]

Does there seem to be a specific colour or shape of petals to go for or did you not discriminate?

I did not discriminate.

To paraphrase that old sexist cliché; "you don't look at the mantlepiece when you're poking the fire", well I don't look at the petals when I'm picking the pods (mainly because they've all dropped by the time the pods are worth picking).

I think that every variety of P. somniferum will provide some psychoactive effects, but how you perceive those effects is reliant upon having no current opiate tolerance, and having enough experience with opiates to be able to focus on the positives, while ignoring the more annoying effects of the many alkaloids contained within.

It's definitely an acquired taste...

 

[Bleaney]

I think that every variety of P. somniferum will provide some psychoactive effects,

To me, it definitely seems to be a case that some strains contain a lot more of specific types of alkaloids.

The pods that are grown for pharmaceutical production are totally different varieties to those that are sold by and for the arts and crafts people.

Those arts and crafts pods arent selected for their alkaloids, but the pharma ones are.

Having said that, even the arts and cratfs pods do have some effect.

I'm currenly weening myself off them as the cheap supply source has ended, and I'm not paying hundreds of pounds for small amounts to keep this habit going.

The main effects that these pods had on me, were all mildly stimmy, a mild uplift in mood and energy, a mild increase in appetite, and a complete solution to any kind of 'nervous stomach' type upsets.

These pods arent anything like those noddy potent ones, that were doing the rounds back in day, said to lead to a month of terrible w/ds upon quitting. It's 75% all in the head, but with some physical with the energy and stomach.