Papaver Somniferum Indoors.

cannalush said:

I've never grown poppies indoors so I can't comment on the ideal lighting.

If you are growing these plants specifically for the medicine they offer or simply just to "get high", I would highly suggest making the pods into a tea instead of lancing the pods and collecting the latex/opium. The plants have WAAAAAY way more to offer if one makes a tea with their whole pods compared to just collecting the latex/opium from cutting them. If one is only lancing/collecting the latex/opium then they will need a somewhat large plot of plants to get anything worthwhile (I'd say 10X15 feet at the very minimum for not even much opium). It takes A LOT of plants to collect a usable amount of opium. I've grown somewhere around 50 to 75 plants outdoors the past several years, and even with those big outdoor plants (5 to 6 feet tall) with multiple pods each I still don't think I had enough to collect a decent/usable amount of opium.

I've grown poppies outdoors the past several years and I haven't bothered with cutting the pods for their latex/opium at all besides just a couple pods each year out of curiosity just to see how much latex they produce...Which brings me to another point. What strain/variety of poppy do you plan on growing? Some strains/varieties don't produce much latex at all. One variety I grew would only produce a tiny bead/drop of latex when cut, I would have needed about 100+ plants just to get a teeny tiny ball of opium.

Making tea with the pods is tremendously more efficient than cutting the pods for the latex/opium. The effects/high from tea lasts a long time too compared to "smoking" the opium. All around tea is just a much better way of using the plant.

Also...growing a bunch of poppies, indoors under lights of all places, with very obvious cut marks all over the pods makes it very apparent what one is growing the poppies for. Growing poppies with slices on their pods would have me sketched out. Since I use my plants for tea they never have cuts on their pods and therefor I'm not breaking any laws. As soon as one starts growing them indoors, and as soon as one starts cutting their pods and starts collecting the latex/opium, it is definitely considered growing/manufacturing drugs.

For sowing/germinating....I sow my seeds on the surface of the soil and just gently tamp/press them down a bit. Keeping the seed/soil moist at all times is important.



Good luck!......I've never heard of anyone growing poppies indoors. Seems like it would take a lot of light/energy for a relatively small amount of plants and I assume the plants will be relatively tiny....I'm definitely curious to see how it goes for you though!






Not quite....

The seed pods is where the opium comes from, not the flower.

The flower has to bloom first, become pollinated, then it forms a seed pod. The seed pod is what people cut to collect the opium.

But making a tea from the pod is waaaay way more effective and much more efficient than cutting them and using the latex/opium.






I dunno.

Having poppies growing around one's yard & garden for landscaping and ornamental and seed/culinary use is a much different circumstance than cultivating poppies indoors under lights with lance/cut marks all over the pods. I feel it would be tough to convince "the law" that you are growing them for landscaping or ornamental use only when they are growing in a tent or in a room under lights, and once there are cut marks on the pods you're screwed.

Even if one isn't cutting their pods, I would be waaay more sketched out and worried about growing poppies under some lights inside my house than I would be having poppies growing around the entire perimeter of my property.

I grow em' outdoors and I don't worry about it all, they just part of my landscaping/flower patches and they never have cut marks on their pods since I don't use them for collecting latex/opium (just tea).







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DCLXVI said:

My god, the amount of knowledge that surfaces on this forum is impressive.

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cannalush said:

Why not let them grow and bloom and finish outdoors? What's the point of moving them back & forth from outside to inside?

The sun is free and will likely grow better & bigger plants than lights will.

12 inches is a pretty small plant and plants that small will likely have tiny pods about the size of a grape.


I am definitely curious to see how they turn out being grown indoors under lights and hope you have success, but it just does not seem like a practical way of growing poppies and getting a decent harvest. I could be wrong though, I've never seen it done before so maybe it is possible.


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sofa king fast said:

i tried 3 or 4 times to grow poppy in my cupboard,didnt really get much bigger than the pic above,whether that be a broadcasting style or one to a pot.When i fired a few seeds out my back garden last year and had poppies 3 foot tall (enclosed back garden,enough for poppies but not enclosed enough for weed)
There was a link or a link to a name on an old forum,that had real good info on this guys indoor growing/slicing/tea making. Old thread was titled popping poppies if i remember,and F.N. may have some pointers.
good luck n keep er lit

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