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I have a garden of several poppy plants, growing three different Papaverum Somniferum strains I ordered online. This is my first real harvest and I am not interested in the opium gum, rather my objective is to obtain the (eventually dry) poppy capsule and taking it as poppy pod tea. I personally grind my pods to a powder and skip the tea eating the ground powder as it tends to increase the potency compared to tea but I digress, back to the topic at hand.
I would think that any lancing or bleeding/milking of the pods would decrease the final concentration of the poppy pod.
I’ve heard when harvesting poppies to hang the plants upside down, while others say one should leave the plants undisturbed until they start to dry and to wait until the plant dries out itself which is usually after the crown opens and the seeds start to fall, the stems begin to dry and then you can apparently cut or rip out the pods.
There must be someone here who has had the same question at one point or another, please help a fellow bluelighter with any tips.
When harvesting how should I proceed to obtain the kind of pods u need for poppy pod tea, that is to say the dried potent kind?
Thanks in advance!
I would think that any lancing or bleeding/milking of the pods would decrease the final concentration of the poppy pod.
I’ve heard when harvesting poppies to hang the plants upside down, while others say one should leave the plants undisturbed until they start to dry and to wait until the plant dries out itself which is usually after the crown opens and the seeds start to fall, the stems begin to dry and then you can apparently cut or rip out the pods.
There must be someone here who has had the same question at one point or another, please help a fellow bluelighter with any tips.
When harvesting how should I proceed to obtain the kind of pods u need for poppy pod tea, that is to say the dried potent kind?
Thanks in advance!
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