How to harvest opium from poppy heads.

The foliage is getting ratty.Is it possible to pick a green Pod and bring it inside to dry?

Pick them even earlier if you can get the syrupy filling in the seed Pod.A wink.

Not usually.If you absolutely have to then let them go as long as you can, cut the stem long and hang upside down to dry.To catch the seeds, you need something underneath or around thepods.

I wish I had read this post before I pulled the 2 heads off the neighbor's spent poppies.I thought I'd take it off his hands because they weren't flowering anymore.I didn't think he'd mind that this guy doenst even mow the lawn.That's right, ha ha.When it's dried up, I'll have to steal the last one.I would just ask the man if I could see him.I don't think so.

I was going to ask the same question and some of them were half brown.They are all in a pile.

I wanted to know if I should start the seeds now or transplant later.It's a good time.How do I keep them safe in the meantime?I let the questions dry out for lupine.

You might think I'm new to this forum, but I appreciate your patience and answers.

I allowed the foliage to survive so that I could get the seed.I picked a few of them.We don't get much snow here, so I throw the seed out on top of the snow in January or February.I have a paper bag with my seed in it.

This is the first year that I have had any grow for me, and I'm not used to gathering seeds.All due to winter sowing.

I was glad to find this question.Will leave them alone.Some can be moved out of sight, but others will have to be put up with.

I wouldn't transplant Saucy.Chancygardener does what I do.From January to April, throw out the snow.They enjoy the cold stratification of outside sowing and like light to grow.

The poppy is ready once it opens at the top.When nature sets them free, they are good to go.Nature is smarter than we are.The Pods are usually brown and brittle.It makes sense.It's true for a lot of plants, is the plant letting them go?It's time.

I have been successful in sowing poppies.There are easy instructions on the winter sowing forum.Give it a try.

We have had frost for 3 nights in a row and I don't know if the seeds that fall will be viable.I am growing them for the first time.NE Minnesota is where I live.Thanks.

I would like to know the reason for sprinkling them on the snow in January rather than shaking them around as soon as they are ripe.In late summer/autumn.I am not familiar with your climates and am wondering why you need to store them instead of sowing them.They grow their own food in my garden.

I didn't check mypods for a few days because I thought they were just a couple of days.

I'm in the south puget sound area.There was a bad bout of spider mites and powdery mildew this summer.I still have flowers.I started some in April and another in June.The ones that bloomed in June are starting.The late summer was dry.We got our usualy cool, grey and wet weather in late september.A couple of mypods which were just about ready to harvest for seed started turning green again, so I pulled them and viola!The seeds were fully sprouted.It's not right!My first plant bloomed in September.I didn't want to mess up the only seeds because I only got two flowers from a single plant.I put this plant in a pot and took it to my back porch.The plants aren't getting enough light to grow the younger Pods.I don't have a supplemental light source, so I had to keep the HnC Pod dry.