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[Muleskinner]

two days later they're really starting to take off...organic super soil is hard, very difficult to get it right for indoor cannabis IMO. These seedlings were almost dead when I transplanted them 8 days ago.

I've been experimenting for 2 years trying to get it perfect, I actually paid for an hour-long consulting session with a professional agronomist at one point. He had a different take from most of the chatter on the cannabis internet - he doesn't like compost in containers. He said keep it to 5% or less, and that's where I've ended up.

Compost is heavy and holds moisture on the roots which cannabis doesn't like. The release of nutes from compost is unstable and unpredictable. I've been adding 3% worm casting thinking it was safe, it took a bunch of growing cycles to figure out that it was nuking my plants. 3 weeks after planting it would release a ton of nutes and suddenly the plants would burn up. Couldn't figure it out until I eliminated everything else from the mix. Last month I lost my flowering crop of C99XCannatonic this way, I started another batch of these seeds, can't wait to use the good mix on them.

 

[Muleskinner]

this little guy....pic did not come out well - I love it, somehow my house is home to a population of ladybugs. It's the middle of winter and they keep appearing in the house. they're smart enough to figure out where the garden is and crawl in - this guy is in the closet with the seedlings. Where do they come from? How do they reproduce? I have no idea.

There are no fungus gnats in this soil so what are they living on?

 

[wumpyc]

Ladybugs wont harm your crop. They will eliminate some spiders that could harm it though.

 

[BobChronic6505]

U get a taste of those zahirs yet

 

[Cvh]

There are unfortunately not so many good books on opium poppy growing and harvesting. And other good information is also hard to come by.
But the book that I found to be halfway decent is 'OPIUM FOR THE MASSES: Harvesting Nature's Best Pain Medication' by Jim Hogshire

It covers the history, cultivation, harvesting and varies consumption methods.

I sowed a few weeks ago outdoors the following varieties in different beds:
-'Galania' Izmir Afghan Special.
- India 'Album' White
- Afghan Blue
- Giganteum
- Danish Flag
- Breadseed

They're currently sprouting. So the most of them don't have yet their first set of true leaves.

I also have the variety 'Suffolk Pharma' which I got as freebie with an order that arrived last week but I haven't planted it yet. Might be next year because I don't have a bed for it as I wasn't expecting to get this gifted.

Cheers and best of luck.

 

[BobChronic6505]

@Cvh do you have a favorite variety

 

[Cvh]

@BobChronic6505, not particularly. But I got the Galania variety this year and I'm curious if the stories about it are true. It's possibly a GMO modified variety by the former Izmir company which should have up to 3 times the amount of active alkaloids and is the fastest finishing and most hardy variety.

They're also nicknamed 'Chinese Seeds' by the Afghan people according to the media.

Could New Poppy Strain be Boosting Afghanistan's Opium Crop?

Karam Khan, an opium poppy farmer from Helmand, is delighted that business is booming. New strains of seeds mean that poppy could be sewn and harvested all year round, he said, and shrinking government control over the province has left farmers free to cultivate the illegal crop. “We used to...

iwpr.net

Afghanistan’s relentless opium woes have a 'new seed in town,' and it comes from China

Afghanistan's opium production is up because of new genetically modified "Chinese seed" that allows opium to be grown year round.

www.cnbc.com

I got it from Pure Poppies an online company specialized in the rare and very powerful poppies.

Galania - PURE POPPIES™

The Genuine article. 100% pure-bred Izmir Afgan Special "Galania" seeds.

purepoppies.co.uk

They also sell through eBay.

 

[Redrum92]

Beautiful poppies. My lifelong fantasy is having an acre or two of bud and poppy. Lifelong opiate and weed user. Hate relying on the outside world for supply, for ethical and financial reasons, and just for pleasure of growing.

Tempted to try indo' poppies like you, but heard it is surprisingly hard

 

[BobChronic6505]

Beautiful poppies. My lifelong fantasy is having an acre or two of bud and poppy. Lifelong opiate and weed user. Hate relying on the outside world for supply, for ethical and financial reasons, and just for pleasure of growing.

Tempted to try indo' poppies like you, but heard it is surprisingly hard

Bro it's easier to grow than weed ever thought about being

 

[Redrum92]

Bro it's easier to grow than weed ever thought about being

Consider me inspired

 

[Cvh]

Any updates?