Obtaining Opium from the whole poppy plant!

[ZS.28]

Hello everyone, I have 50 poppies that are growing, they have flowered by now. I was interested in extracting the opium from the whole plant because scoring the poppy pod seems to me to be a waste of poppy, because the whole plant contains alkaloids.

But I am not sure how to do it, should I pluck it from the ground wash it and then boil in water, filter it, and then evaporate water?

Or what would be a better procedure?

 

[T 3]

Not a waste at all if you want 2 times your yield or greater as the poppy when properly scored will continue to ooze the latex your after and continuing to make More which would not happen just cutting them down.. it will still work though putting em in a pot of water and lightly simmering filtering scraping but I like to separate stalks from pods and boil and reduce like you were saying..

 

[OrgUnikum]

Thats how its done - extract the whole plant. Harvest, dry bone dry and grind as fine as possible. Alcohol (any) is the solvent of choice, water is not good at all.

 

[ZS.28]

Why not water? Can you elaborate on the method? should I harvest when they are dry, because I usually harvest them when they are at peak maturity when they have the most opium aka still green.

 

[T 3]

As long as it’s been 5-7 days after all petals have fallen you should get good yield simmering down with water but don’t go over 80 C (think 45 C is best) temp wise as can start breaking down the morphine.. Should definitely scrape or score one and see if it starts oozing goodness..