penguin

Sure it is. California poppies (several species in genus Eschscholzia) are not in genus Papaver, but they are still in family Papaveraceae, and thus true poppies.


It's true that many of the kinds of poppies grown as ornamentals, including opium poppies and California poppies, are obligate long-day plants (LDP). However these have different critical photoperiods. For example, opium poppies flower with 14-16 hour days, but 13 hour days induce flowering in California poppies. There are more than 100 species in the family; not all are obligate LDP. some will flower regardless of daylength (day-nuetral), while some will flower at any daylength but more prolifically with long days (facultative LDP).


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This is correct. Penguin is right on too, but in much more detail I am growing poppies indoors right now. I use cannabis nutrients and they are thriving. giganteums are nice and easy to grow, hens and chicks are good as well. It takes patients though, it takes 8 weeks for them to germ and grow 10 inches tall, even under the best conditions. All in all a beautiful flower, but cannabis is my one true love.
(Can I show pictures of my poppies, or would that break board rules? I'm really shocked this has been kept open for such a long time. Back in the day... whoosh into the trash. Getting soft are we )

xjo

Go right ahead mate.....

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Not getting soft, but promoting a progressive community atmosphere with the main focus toward marijuana cultivation and legalization.
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Back in the day was HempCultivation.com. When rick opened the Garden there was the intent of being a source for all herbs medicinal. Today we welcome the discussion of the growth of "off topics" within 2 forums. We are growers here. We grow things. We love to discuss how to grow things. We are not going to discuss how to use the things we grow outside of Cannabis. Cannabis is what brought us together, but it is no secret that members choose to indulge themselves of other flora.


We've been soft for a while.

Welcome to the here and now, rockclimber.

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I was merely trying to give a laymens answer for digestions sake... I was defining != a real popy as != Papaver for simplicities sake. Im burning out man too much typing!

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I'm at 39N getting about 13 hours of daylight since 4/15. My first California Poppy bloomed in Saturday's rain. Clasic orange.

I left the spent poppies in the garden last year as an experiment; wanting to get more. Generally I clean up spent flowers and put in the compost pile.

My plan worked. I have hundreds of Cal poppy seedlings throughout my whole garden...

A few years back a natural phenomenon occurred in my garden. We removed a tan oak tree (weed tree) from a bed just off the deck. I didn't have a design ready for the spot so we just let it go for the winter... amended the soil, raked it flat and left it to the winter rains.

The next spring, the entire plot filled with 5' high double red poppies. It was so odd to see this huge stand of poppies right outside the door. It was magnificent. I saved seeds and threw them into my garden every year since. I've seen very few of the red poppies since then.


No California poppy pics at my finger tips. The large orange poppy has deep purple spots inside the flower. Haven't looked up the proper names of these poppies. Though I think the big red crop held potential.

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Just picked up some after seeing this thread. So a look over at poppies.org and I found they had good success with McCormicks poppy seed. There are two, the gourmet comes from Holland (the one I got) and the other is Papaver Somniferum as per the website. So I'm not too sure which is the 'good' one but IMO very easy to get a sprout.

I would guess there are about 5000 seeds or so in the bottle, so much more plentiful than cannabis seed. Throw em' on top of dirt, water, and 2-3 days later you got roots and seedlings beginning to reach up.




Outdoors, beautiful garden. Maybe we can have GC fest there one April 20 if these darn laws cooperate.

mariganja

NICE garden man!

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As a sombre aside....

The corn poppy was adopted as a symbol of remembrance after WWI because it thrived in the heavily turned and broken soil that was rich in nutrients from the explosives and the flesh and blood of dead soldiers in the fields of Flanders.

Over 10 million lads died in WWI. Only a million were identified.

Unknown Solider Of World War One

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