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Question for UK only/ ever successfully grown opium?

smackcraft

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If i dont get any luck posting here i might try OD but i thought this would be the best place to try first seeing as its directed at UK residents

Anyway i have seen things over the net about being able to grow them in doors but also that its easy outdoors if planted in a good sunny location

This spring has been pretty good where i am but im not sure if it would be good enough to grow the opium poppy or not

Just out of curiosity i wondered if anyone has ever managed to grow any either indoor or out door

EDIT : i just read my first sentence again .. dont worry im not going to over dose if you dont answer, the question is not that important to me xD ,, what i mean is i will try post in the OD section lol
 
I'm not sure of the timings to sow the seeds etc but for sure it grows in the UK.

My old landlady used to have loads of Pap somniferum poppies growing in her garden. And we were successful at scoring and harvesting raw opium.

Regarding the risk of OD - you'd need a shitload of poppies ;)

The yeild isn't great. Fun for a day or so, but nowhere near enough to keep you in opium for any length of time. Ordering pods online and brewing tea is probably more worthwhile, but also more expensive, I'm guessing...
 
not sure but got a mate who makes opium tea by just stealing the right poppies from peoples gardens, so they do grow.. think I read brimz knows a thing or 2 about growing the poppies?
 
so i could just plant the seeds in my folks garden

cant wait to see their faces next spring

" i dont remember planting this shit " =s

lol
 
There was a field behind my old house in east Manchester where there would be a spectacular display of opium poppies for a couple of days each year before they mysteriously vanished.
 
Im sure ive seen them before, cos the head just reminds me of something but im not sure what

you know when u get like a photographic image of something you have seen somewhere in the past .. well when i see a pic of an opium poppy i get that in my mind... im sure ive seen them in a garden or something
 
smackcraft said:
so i could just plant the seeds in my folks garden

cant wait to see their faces next spring

" i dont remember planting this shit " =s

lol
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you wouldn't have to wait that long .
have a look at the gardening thread i put up a link their which should tell you all you need 2 know .
 
Shit i just remembered , theres an area near me that was used for garden shows and won awards .. i will have to go up and have a look, they are bound to have some there xD
 
Look around. Poppies grow everywhere. They also seem earlier every year, maybe it's the global warming. The first of this years outdoor crop look like they'll be ready early June.

Or, if none grow wild or in neighbours' gardens where you live, buy some blue poppyseed for breadmaking from the health shop and scatter. You'll have to wait two years before it's a worthwhile patch but look on it as the equivilant of laying down wine.

Raiding people's gardens and deheading their flowers is of course anti-social. And there's no telling who you'll meet up to the same thing, there are stories of poppy seekers coming to blows over who has the 'right' to which garden. One couple who met in this way wound up married to each other. Poppy love.
 
I used to be a gardener at a heritage property which had loads of them growing in the gardens, I used to chop of a pod every now and again. They grow quite well from what I gathered from around spring - summer, I've seen alot of people grow them.
 
Dunno about a theme but his upcoming court case may have been a contributory motive.

Come the day, his brief waxed eloquent about a man changed by love who'd never re-offend and how cruel it would be to deprive this reformed character of his liberty. "His wife is of course in court today..", he said with a wave of his hand at the public gallery. Sadly the bride had gouched out with her legs open and cursed audibly when his mate tried to nudge her awake. The judge was unimpressed. 3 years.

They stayed wed, tho, and later oded within three months of one another. Ain't love grand?
 
charlie clean said:
Dunno about a theme but his upcoming court case may have been a contributory motive.

Come the day, his brief waxed eloquent about a man changed by love who'd never re-offend and how cruel it would be to deprive this reformed character of his liberty. "His wife is of course in court today..", he said with a wave of his hand at the public gallery. Sadly the bride had gouched out with her legs open and cursed audibly when his mate tried to nudge her awake. The judge was unimpressed. 3 years.

They stayed wed, tho, and later oded within three months of one another. Ain't love grand?
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Truth is always more outrageous than fiction.
 
Isn't it but? Imagine going back 50 years and telling how we live today. You'd be in the nuthouse before you'd finished your recital.

Just saw some poppies growing roadside on way back from shops, definitely unusually advanced for late April.
 
To answer OPs question, yes, it can be done if you're prepared to be busy in July and August.

Tour your surrounding countryside and find patches you can access without drawing attention. The poppy grows anywhere, even in poor soil, and is often found where there's freshly turned earth. Slit a few days after the leaves fall, which isn't long after they appear. You need to break the outer but not inner skin, once you're doing it right a white sap oozes or gushes out. If it doesn't immediately rain, return 48 hours later and scrape the now brown residue. You can collect an ounce of passable quality in a fortnight. Boil down to lose the impurities and enjoy. It's been a while since I bothered but a few years back using black market prices worked out it 'earned' about £10 an hour. Beats picking potatos.

As a rule, stick with the four leafed variety rather than the crossbreeds that look like carnations. It doesn't matter a fuck what colour they are, if you're looking for white poppies go to Afghanistan. With experience, you learn for yourself which are the high yielders and which are purely decorative.

It is, of course, quite illegal to manufacture opium and penalties are severe. That's why I stopped. Boiling the heads, tho, is no crime. So if a patrol car halts while you're at it, lose your slitter, scraper and what you've already collected. Move a few plants away and start picking heads or admiring the insect life. Very little they can do unless the landowner wants to prosecute for nominal-value theft. Boiled heads are equally powerful so it seems a strange discrepancy. Yet again, the Drug Law is an ass.

If you're young, it can be a fun challenge to slit'n'scrape a neighbour's garden dry without their noticing. And, as they say, you're never closer to God than when you're in your poppy patch.
 
QUOTE=charlie clean;9580056]Isn't it but? Imagine going back 50 years and telling how we live today. You'd be in the nuthouse before you'd finished your recital.

Just saw some poppies growing roadside on way back from shops, definitely unusually advanced for late April.[/QUOTE]

Yeah i've seen some lovely big uns :)
Very early this year, obviously the hot weather dry soil combiation.

Boiled heads are equally powerful so it seems a strange discrepancy. Yet again, the Drug Law is an ass.
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tis nice to have the lump though;) But tea is just dandy.
 
i'm currently like u brimz,but i just ordered more seeds , £3.50 for one pack of cherry glow n postage n packagein. all legit so i don't think it's wrong to post the price details on here, i'm only growing em for the flowers ,formy garden path boarder ,n the oriental ones have flowers the size of plates. but i see guys on the net selling papaver soniferum for a tea spoon of seeds for 30 dollars and other english ones for 20 quid.
when this one is like £2 max for a pack of seeds if any one wants the companies details pm me.
on the subject of growing ,i want peet pellet pot type things u slit open n put a few seeds in and let the water come in from the bottom so the roots have to seek it out, but i'm trying but i;m doing it wit peet pots in a bowl n putting water in the bottom so the seeds seek out the water, also just ordered more seeds cos i'm gonna try woodchips then soil then fertilizer ans sprinkling of sand then scatter seeds ,also the sand in pots of soil n fertilizer ill then put the seeds in the soil but a bit of sand on top of the pot then press down the seeds
 
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