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Processing Poppies The Easy Way

Here are some tips to maximize your results.

Sow a 10ft x 5ft (300cm x 150cm) garden bed with poppy seeds towards the end of winter.

Phase 1: After the plants drop their flowers. wait a couple of weeks and harvest all the mature swollen pods when their color changes from green to greenish white. Leave all the immature pods for a few more weeks for phase 2. Process as described in the video above.

*Note When your solution gets down to the last 1/4″ remove from heat (only use low heat setting) and evaporate the rest in a small 10″ stainless steel baking sheet using only a small fan to speed things along. This usually takes a couple days and makes collection much easier.

Phase 2: After about 2 weeks when the remaining pods have matured, go ahead and harvest most of what’s left, leaving some for collecting seeds. But this time take the pods and the top 12″ of every plant, strip off the leaves and cut those stems into 2-3″ sections. Then process all that material. This will double your yield. In total you will run the process in the video 2-3 times depending on how large your Stockpot is.

Cheers

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