This is a sorta half-baked thought my friend and I came up with while we were shooting up. Why doesn't every opiate-lover just sow seeds everywhere...like everywhere. Just infest the region with opium poppies. Seeds are small and cheap, and you can get them anywhere. I don't know about you guys, but we think it would be pretty good. Cops couldn't get them all.
even if they grow everywhere?... Just how do you expect to harvest the milk?. you must slit them, and return while they are bleeding and collect the milk.. In a larger field you make a pass slitting them, coming back later to collect.
That is what I thought, Orison...I read up on it a bit, just out of curiousity. Wondering about the process it must take to get "opium" out of there. Well, turns out there is a BUNCH to do. And that is after splitting the pod at the just right time. After you harvest the "milk", isn't there other stuff you gotta do too?
Just check on them, non-chalantly. We've done it before in public parks and Town Hall gardens. No problem harvesting, when they're ready we got with NVGs at night. But I'm talking about INFESTING the whole town with them...
Well masada, I've gotta ask...don't you think it might be noticed if "we" were to begin harvesting a bunch of poppies that you'd "infested" (lol) the town with?
Its a difficult plant to grow wild in areas of development.. It very delicate. And realize growing Opium where Opium grows. Seed production will out number the dead seedling and have better chances of survival... In areas like Afghanistan, There are poppy fields far as the eye can see.. Its like Grass there. Or to use a better analogy:Wheat field. They live on the seeds, have very little use of the milk they sell to militants to fund themselves...
Yea, just collect the pods for tea, otherwise you can try slitting them and returning but that is sketchy. I've tried planting them before, and it's hard to find a location where they will be even germinate. The climate, say on the hilly coasts of the Great Lakes, is fine, it needs that coolness but good warmth and and definitely full sun, and that's the problem, finding an entirely full sun location, where it wont stick out, or that is on very private land. It would be just so awesome though, even if I just could make pod tea. Someday in my garden.
Also, given the right place, Opium Poppy should be significantly easier to grow for as much potency given the variety's genetics, than weed, for its better potency levels. Just get the seed of highly adapted drug harvest Opium poppy and you will have some potent sap.
good luck trying to make any home made opium out of poppies. you best leave that up to the cartel or pharmaceutical industry.
