okay some cool things i learned about the opium poppy
they are suppose to flower as the days get longer, and I had several flower on the solstice. it is awesome to see nature work, and next year i will know damn near to the day when i will be able to harvest.
the flowers lasted only one day, then the petals fell away on all of them. this is contrary to everything I have read/heard. the flowers were suppose to last a few days at least?
I ground up 7 pods 3 were actually the size of silver dollars and the rest were kind of runty. Quarter sized to dime sized. Added some of my surplus phosphoric acid to some bottled water that i brought to a rolling boil, then removed from heat. I took the ground poppy pods and filled an empty teabag and soaked/steeped for 25 minutes.....thats pretty much it.
poppy tea mmmmmmm. i have heard how bad this stuff tastes......to me it tasted like orange tea.....i added too much sugar, but besides that it was really good. i was expecting a bitter opiate taste.
the pain releif/euphoria lasted a long time, actually im still feeling it today after drinking it yesterday.....so better than a pill or two for sure.
These are just a few of my findings with my new project, and I thought sharing was in order.
oh yeah one last thing that i tried as hip suggested, grapefruit juice....as I have no experience without it to compare too yet, i can at least say it didnt hurt