Grow Poppy Plants

Cooper F asked:


im a gardener always trying to add new breeds to my garden and i have many poppy breeds but i cannot get any breeds of the papaver somniferum species because of their use in making drugs. so i did Research and found out that papaver somniferum is the only kind of poppy seed used in baking. so i got the idea to buy a bag of seeds from a bakery and than plant them instead of eat them. the only problem im thinking of, of why they wouldn’t grow is because their roasted or something. hey if it doesn’t work at least ill have something to top my bagels with (:

Good Guy asked:


Okay pot seeds are illegal but the poppy seed are not .The drug Heroin is made from Poppy plant.That means that any person could literally grow and manufacture a drug worse than coke.I despise coke and heroin I only like pot but I can buy it because its illegal .So why can a person grow poppy plants and not hemp ?

After watching the video( run from the cure) on youtube I hope to one day be able to use Marijuana and also give some away to people that have cancer .So many things can be made with hemp and people with liiving with pain like me could really use it its not like the doctors prescription of prevacid is gonna help me I have no stomach problems .

6-sick-6 asked:


so there is this huge ugly field next to my house. no flowers. just poison ivy, saplings, dead trees & dead wood. (oh & tuns of weeds)

my resolution was to seed the field. there is to much crap in it to clear the field myself…but a little color never hurts.

i have sprinkled a mix of sunflower seeds & a bag of lupines
but i am looking to drop some good self seeding annuals and perennials

i picked poppy’s because they cover fields after just a few seasons, are low maintenance, come in a wide range of colors & i hear will come back year after year in fields (i’m not going to maintain). i already have the seeds… i real good mix

my question is when should i sew them? i plan on just walking through the field & sprinkling them around. i know that very few will grow from this type of sewing but with all the seeds they produce i only need 1 or 2 to make it.

should i drop them in winter, late fall, or very early spring?…i recently moved to Dallas the winter temps don’t get to bad just a few freezes a year. but no snow to insulate from windchill.

i tried to sew them last spring but it got to hot to quick & they died.
what month should i sew them in Dallas, Texas.

*** as a precursor i know that my poppy seed mix contains a few somniferum (opium) poppy seeds but if the feds ever accused me of anything they could just search my house, i don’t plan on any illegal activities so i have nothing to worry about***