ZooL Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Many years ago someone told me a thing about poppy sprouts being useful, a few years ago i came across some poppy seedlings that were growing under laserlite about this time of year that looked sort of like little vines with tiny setting flowers(just 1 on each) in a pot of another internationally grown plant, i pulled them out but before i threw them i hate a nibble on the unopened flower heads. Again this year i came across some more(i have never planted these and have a very large gardern at my house and am thinking the previous owners may have grew them ornamentally and i have inadvertently picked up seeds when getting soil for pots from the garden) that were the same but have all died in the heat of the last weak. I am thinking the person who told me this originally may have misunderstood something they were told or i misunderstood them, not just sprouts, but something about them growing out of season maybe and flowering in some miniature form? The few i had a nibble of years back were about 5mmX5mm unopened flowers and had no real bitter or bad taste but had a much similar effect to a few codeine fort tablets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehteam Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Sprouts with flower heads, 5mm in height, have not seen before and makes me wonder about growing conditions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooL Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 Sorry, sprouts* about 4-5 inches with a single stem and maybe 4 or 5 narrow leaves alternating along the stem to the unopened flower head being about 5mm at tip. Both times it was about this time of year in filtered light(getting full sun hours and ambient temp but under laserlite so not direct) and the pots they came up in where getting a good amount of water for the intended plants. One other in a garden bed under shade of a large compound leaf tree so similar conditions No idea how long they had been growing before i noticed them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehteam Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Thankyou, I have had them that height before for different reasons. Once got some soil from a gardener that worked for a fisherman and they started coming up in the soil, so maybe they originally come from Tasmania Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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