...Papaver Somniferum(The Opium Poppy) Growing...

[NC420]

Hey guys, I know that some of you have very serious pain because of illnesses or accidents and I'm sure you are prescribed a lot of medicine but like to cut down by using as many natural medicines as possible...
So I figured if you have to take opiate medications why not guide you towards a more natural method of getting your opiates...
Here is a link to a website where you can buy 1000-10,000 Opium Poppy seeds at a time for $9.95 per 1000 of about 4-5 strains...
>http://www.ethnobotanicals.com/opium-poppy-seeds.html<

Here is a link to a grow where the guy grows indoors in DWC and outdoors, He gives harvesting and medicating info as well...

It's said to be hard to over nute and needs little water, Also Indoors it can be grown from seed to harvest in as little as 70 days and outdoors from 100-120 days...

I am in no way telling anybody that Opiate usage is safe, I'm just laying out information to anybody that may need it or want to grow their own instead of relying on medicare or paying outrageous prices for medication...

NC420

 

[greenpharmd]

Cool info! You can also get P. somniferum seeds at the grocery store. The ones in the spice section are viable and I have grown poppies from them before. I have never harvested any opium though. The dosing can be a little more difficult to get right with opium than with the isolated alkaloids ie. morphine and codeine.

 

[surffreak23]

For crimeney sake, I need to put this out there as a user of poppy pod tea. The best way is to take your poppy straw (dried stems and pods without seeds) and grind your whole batch up into powder and then mix the powder THOROUGHLY! a food procesor works great... This will assure a uniform potency and when first trying a new batch be cautious, people die from overdosing on tea! start slow and be patient the first few times until you know the strength and your tolerance. the amount and type of alkaloid (morpheine, codiene etc.) can vary hugely in sub species of papver somniferum like pepper box, hens and chicks and white afghan. Also variations from harvest to harvest can be expected if the situation is not heavily controlled.

I put this out there because I hate that people are ODing off a very safe brew if it is treated with the respect it deserves! Please be safe!

 

[micro.grower]

igrew out some mccormicks this year... each pod was larg nough to fit a single poppy seed in... no flowers at all.. what gives? anybody got any advice on what strain of poppy i grew? im gonna see if i can get a pik tonight for you guys... not really sure if i should attempt to make tea out of it or not...

 

[surffreak23]

if you think you have enough to make tea try it but try it slow (see my previous comment)

Mccormicks are papaver somniferum but recently I have heard rumors that they are trying to breed them with lower amounts of the alkaloids but this would not account for the small pods, more likely adverse growing conditions or light cycle. Unlike marijuana poppies flower when the days are longer so if started too late, the will be severely stunted.. .

 

[greenpharmd]

Thanks for the great surffreak23. I am very interested in pharmacologically active plants.

 

[surffreak23]

If you are interested in poppies you might want to check out kratom or for the botanists Mitragyna speciosa. It has both the properties of opioid drugs and also the energizing effect of caffeine or raw coca leaves and it is legal in the states and most countries with no restrictions...

 

[surffreak23]

What you are probably seeing, Thai Buddah Man, is homemade laudanum, typically an alcohol based tincture with as much opium or poppy straw as possible concentrated down and strained to a very bitter liquid that acts like Oxycontin when dosed orally, again the potency is very different sometimes... Laudanum is one of the original pharmaceutical opiates...

 

[surffreak23]

I would take extreme caution when dealing with this concentrated form as it is very easy to become addicted and/or dead, check out the dosing on this original laudanum:

 

[NC420]

30 drops for an adult, Damn...
I'm growing some for sure, I always liked a little opiates so I'll have to be careful with this shit around...lol

I'm mostly going to grow them because I want to be able to medicate my mom and dad without it being so damn expensive...