Collecting opuim for poppies

I know the basics, but how exactally do you go from pods to lovley opium?

 

With the basics. Scratch the sides, collect the opium a few hours later, badda bing badda boom.

 

You slice a small depth in to the pod, all the way down it, do it a bunch of times around the whole pod. Let the milky white stuff seep out, and wait for it to dry. Usually overnight. It will turn dark and thick due to oxidization. You then scrape it into a bowl, and you can either smoke it, or refine it by boiling it, filtering off the garbage, and evaporating the water out of your opium solution. You will be left with a better product. You need pretty big fields to get substantial yields, each pod may only produce 50 mg's of opium.

 

daym, you just love explaining dont ya hahahahaha me im more of a badda bing badda boom type person

 

But dood, the white turns black pretty quickly, only a few hours, but i see what your saying, i guess most people would just let it drip over night

 

okay ive done this to like 20 pods and got nowhere near as much as i was wxpecting, are there any more efficent methods?

 

Yea, you should have left them alone and made tea, 20 decent sized pods could have easily brought you a gallon, and 1 coffee cup of that shit will be a lot stronger than smoking, and last a WHOLE lot longer. Oh well. Too late now. Maybe next time right?

 

lol dude like I said maybe 50 mg's per pod, as low as 10, so off 20 pods at the lowerst 200 milligrams of opium (.2 grams) at the highest maybe a couple grams. I think you probably got the .2 end of the stick. You need at least a half acre to do anything worth while.

 

Yea, tis true, and imagine getting caught with a half acre of sliced pods, man you would be so dead!

 

heh, no one said it was efficient.

some people experienced in the art (not me) slit the pods once, with a V pattern, and a slit bisecting the V (sort of like a birdfoot pattern) ; the sap will tend to flow downward through the center channel, uniformly. also, they devise a collection device which is essentially a spoon that has a side carved out, concave-like, so it appears like a crescent.

 

When do you start harvesting from the pod?

 

after the flowers bloom and fall off i think.

 

If one makes the forementioned tea, can one boil it down to get a smokable product?

 

About a week after that should be the best time.

 

Yes, but why waste the time? Chances are more than likely you'll ruin it.

 

Can i just crack open the pod and pour all the stuff out?

 

No, only thing that would come out is massive amounts of seeds. The opium is stuck in the walls of the pods

 

Can i make tea with the seeds? Guessing there is the good opuim stuck to the seeds too?

 

I dont know, I've heard that it works, and also that it doesnt work. Same thing goes for the stems. I would assume that it COULD work, if you had enough seeds, which would be A LOT! But, who knows until you know for yourself right? (Not advocating that you try this) haha

 

How long does it take to come up on this tea?