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I love poppy flowers and finally got some started. Seeds can be expensive, 10-30 bucks for a teaspoon full! What I did instead was order some dried poppy pods online and they all came chock full of seeds, maybe a 1/4 pound of seeds in a 60 dollar box of pods.
After you make some nice herbal tea with the crushed pods, and decide you like those particular poppies the seeds sprout easily in well drained soil. The sprouts are tiny and develop into weird looking weedy cabbage type growth.
Poppies in flower are really beautiful, the way they throw up a slender stalk and develop a bulb on top, which opens up into a colorful flower around june. Then the petals drop, and you can cut and dry the pods to begin the cycle over again! Legally though you are not supposed to milk them for opium, I'm not here to talk about that though.
Papaver somniferum is an essential and beautiful plant with huge importance to human well being, I would like to see your guys' poppy flowers so post them up.
After you make some nice herbal tea with the crushed pods, and decide you like those particular poppies the seeds sprout easily in well drained soil. The sprouts are tiny and develop into weird looking weedy cabbage type growth.
Poppies in flower are really beautiful, the way they throw up a slender stalk and develop a bulb on top, which opens up into a colorful flower around june. Then the petals drop, and you can cut and dry the pods to begin the cycle over again! Legally though you are not supposed to milk them for opium, I'm not here to talk about that though.
Papaver somniferum is an essential and beautiful plant with huge importance to human well being, I would like to see your guys' poppy flowers so post them up.