Extracting opium from poppy straw - Bluelight. org THE OPIUM POPPY PLANT The opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, is an annual plant, i e , the plant matures one time, and does not regenerate itself New seed must be planted each season From a small seed, it grows, flowers, and bears fruit (a pod) only once The entire growth cycle for most varieties of this plant takes about 120 days
Opioids - how much opium can i get from one poppy Not very much; growing poppies for personal use is risky, tedious, and often not very rewarding in the end That's why you see fields of poppies, rather than patches, or indoor set-ups Not saying, however, that it's impossible to get a little stash of opium from a backyard poppy patch
Extraction of opium alkaloids from poppy tea with sulphonated cation . . . So I made poppy tea with multiple extractions by the usual method, using 10g of poppy straw The tea tasted very bitter To it was added 20g of ion-exchange resin, which was mixed thoroughly over a period of hours using a motor, after which it was filtered from the tea
Opioids - Poppy pods any good | Bluelight. org One can harvest them after they are ripe, as KS78 points out above and dry them and use the usual methods one finds on the internet, essentially a quick and dirty (which is good) version of the original poppy straw process published by János Kábáy in 1930 -- one can also put green pods in a solution with alcohol in it, but ripe pods allow one to save the seeds for any number of uses
Very unexpected results from morphine a b extraction So I decided to give the ol' a b extraction routine a try 1 Blended 50g dried poppy pods into dust 2 Mixed powder with 1L distilled water and added to a pot 3 Brought solution to 70* C and let sit for 1 hour 4 Added Calcium Hydroxide to bring pH to 11 4 5 Let sit another 30 mins at 70* C
Collecting the sap from opium poppy pods | Bluelight. org I've actually collected a fair amount (pea size) of 'opium' from just one multi headed poppy several times in the past - the problem is that the majority is just useless plant material - it then needs to be boiled down, sieved and dried before it becomes even remotely worth smoking
Opioids - Poppy pods alcohol extraction | Bluelight. org 1 Boil poppy straw in alkali solution and extract soluble morphinate salts into alcohol 2 Remove the alcohol, transfer the mass into alkaline water, remove insolubles 3 Slowly adjust the pH downwards, removing precipitates by filtration or e g toluene extraction 4 By the time you hit pH 9 morphine should crash out as a fairly pure product
Opioids - opium and poppy questions | Bluelight. org According to information collected directly from poppy growers in southern Colombia in 2016, on average, a poppy crop occupies one square meter and produces approximately 20 bulbs optimal for harvesting Each bulb can produce half a gram of latex in total This means that a crop (one square meter) produces 10 grams of latex
Opioids - Snipped, fresh poppy pods - what to do? | Bluelight. org * the green plant matter gloop is added to a saucepan on a low heat until steam begins to rise This is to help the plant give more of its alkaloids * the mixture is then strained through a fine sieve into a bowel, pressing the gloop against the sieve with a spoon to further squeeze the liquid
poppy seed extraction - Bluelight. org I've been doing a little bit of reading on concentrating PST and I thought I'd come to you more knowledgeable folk for guidance The first method I'm interested in involves partially freezing normal PST (shaken up water with seeds, strain) the idea being the bigger molecules and plant fats will