r/PapaverSomniferum

Look how beautiful she is this spring/summer😍
My first time with this Beauty.

I planted her last spring and this year she’s flowering because last year I gave her not enough light maybe.
My California poppy mix is a Eschscholzia.
Like the Cousin of the Papaver Somniferum👍🏻

Long post coming at you…

Here are my not so little anymore new friends of our family. When I purchased the seeds for these pots I bought from 3 places. One of them advertised that they were heirloom non hybrid Hungarian Blues. The other two places said they were just Hungarian Blues. Thought it was interesting how they look different.

These photos were taken 3 days after their first bottom water and 6-4-4 Grow Big 2 teaspoons per 1 gallon distilled water.

My light is a 430w ion board Samsung programmed with a raspberry Pi to max 5 but get brighter slowly on the east side of the tent and then move across board as the 18/6 day goes by. They follow the light with their leaves.

I’ve got 2 - 6” fans kitty corner from each other one higher than the other. They raise and lower their fan speed to act like outdoor wind gusts. They randomly vary the degree that they turn as well. I tested the 48x48 grow area with an Ai camera and incense so I could make sure I didn’t have any dead spots. Did the same with my Vivosun 5-1 ph/elec/temp tester.

The soil I went with 1.5” of organic perlite then 6” of fox farm ocean forest. Then a 50/50 mix of ocean forest and seed start. Then a 1/4 of straight seed start. It’s a bit hot. But they seem to be groov’n on it.

And the rest is a A/C - Heater and a hot and cold humidifier. With a six inch inline with charcoal for ventilation.

Needless to say. Most of you (like Russians in space used a pencil) and placed some seeds in the ground outside. But where’s the fun in that?

The pots are numbered as such if anyone has questions.

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9

Hola me encontré esto dando un paseo y he cogido un ramo, se que deben hacerse unas incisiones y esperar a que seque si se hace directamente en la planta, pero vivo lejos y arranque estas, hay alguna forma casera de extraer de la planta entera? Puede consumirse el látex fresco blanco?

Found in my neighborhood , just curious. Google says a corn poppy?

28 April - 16 May

The past couple of years I’ve only been growing the neon afghans as seen in the first slide and all of them have always had that super vibrant pink color. This year however most blooms so far have ranged from a pale lavender to almost but not quite white (behind the pink one) and the pink one pictured is the only one with that color so far this year.

Everything pictured came from the same seed stock collected last year. I suppose it could be cross pollination even though I haven’t grown anything else in a few years because there is a small commercial flower farm about a mile away and bees travel. I also changed setups this year moving from large pots with uniform potting soil to raised beds with all new soI’ll improved with compost. 🤷 IDK and i guess I will see what the next week or so brings as the rest of them bloom.

These gals are monsters! Size 11 shoe for scale.

I dispersed a majority of the seeds in other places in my flower beds and also decided to drop the rest into this pot. This is the only ones that took. Start thinning them out? Recommendations?

I found a single specimen of Papaver somniferum in the garden of my local church, a couple of days ago; it still had its flowers, orange and double peony blooms. Someone took the biggest head, haha.

I spreaded seeds late winter early spring and even planted starters. The starters all died in a week.

Once you see these flowers you get an eye for em. This was a nice surprise. I will probably thin em out a bit. Ive been so busy with my veggies I didn't have the time.

Also added these cute little notebooks i found at an ice cream/ nic nak shop.

Online said it can have a small amount of coarse hairs just below the pod and the actual stalk is smooth. That's what these have.

I had to use a couple tomato cages to let a big branch lay across thats coming from the bottom of a plant. They're branching out all over the place.

Then also 1 of a Lauren's Grape I have opening this morning that has about 20 or so flowers in it.

I was made aware of this fungal/bacterial looking infection on the stem and was curious if my hunch may be correct. This is in Austin Texas. I’m thinking it might have gotten too hot and humid. Do you think there is any hope of still getting some seeds or is it toast completely?