Anyone grow poppies? (Papaver Somniferum)
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CreepyStevie69
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Straight and to the point mr e. Thanks. I think I have some plain black top soil too somewhere and sand. then just adjust nutes as needed?
FourZeroTwo
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So MrEDuck, I live in florida..should I just go out back and dig up some soil? Its plenty sandy here, kinka like in Afghanistan.
MrEDuck
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Its quite probable they wont need nutes. Poppies aren't heavy feeders. Have you ever grown anything other than cannabis?
That should work but I would bake it prior to use to kill any bugs if you're bringing it into an indoor grow. Definitely not worth bringing bugs inside.
Budget Buds
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The best poppy crop I ever grew was on a sand dune overlooking the lake michigan shore line, I just threw a few hundred extra seeds on the dune and came back a month and a half later totally surprised they were thriving, they loved it and produced tons of latex, No nutes needed nor did I need to water them once. They were the persian white variety .The sandier the "soil" the better IMO, You wont want to go overboard and buy anything more then a bag of sand and cheap no nute miracle grow . I just go out to the apple orchard and dig soil, then go to the beach and get my sand, I strain both and mix it at about a 25% soil to 75% sand mix and have never had a problem with them thriving. My favorate varietys are persian white hens and chicks and the giants. I was not impressed with the tasmainan kind. I was told they are bred to produce thebaine for making pharmaceuticals and (my experience) they lack mostly any kind of codeine or morphine, I believe this to be true, I only ever got a slight buzz from ingestion and more of a headache then anything.
killemsoftly
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Very helpful. Good to know.
Thanks Bb
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