Once you grow poppies To get fresh seeds approx. 100 per Dried Poppy Pod plus or minus rough estimate!! Opium Poppy Plants should also be an art as you never know what ya wanna get season after season.............also growing them hydroponicly indoors to get the result in high yielding opium...
I buy my opium poppy seeds at a variety seed selling local and garden centeres. Be aware that opium poppy seeds are named incorectly but still show opium poppy picture on the seed packet where i purchase at Zellers under the name of Venus Poppy, paeonyflorum, to hide the Papaver Somniferum name...
It's definetly much too late to start growing Somniferum poppies not only due to the lack of the growing season being annuals. I started mine just after the last frost from the winter season! I also heard sowing P.Somniferum seeds just before the winter comes makes a good start then, sowing...