Opium sythensis

Any body know exactly how opium is made its not like im interseted in actulaly making it, just curious on how its done.

 

1.get poppy seeds (bagels, flower stores, dried seed pods) make sure its papaver somniferum
2.toss them in some soil and water
3.wait a few months( keep watering, fertilizing,ect)
4.After they flower petals will fall off, watch until the seed pods are mature
5.using a razor or something make cuts in the skin (dont cut too deep) should look something like this

6.White goo comes out of the slices, let it drip for a few hours.
7.It oxidizes and turns brown, scrape off the black stuff and viola you have opium.

 

ahh, lady O.

did an extraction last year, that would've yielded an off-white powder (of Morphine/Codeine HCl), if my friend's idiot friend didn't accidentally toss the suspension down the sink.

 

no sweat, though. I was pretty satisfied just knowing the procedure worked; it was from http://www.poppies.org

there's the site that'll pretty much tell you whatever you want to know

 

I havent tried it with bagel poppies yet, only a few seed pods I found in a flower store. Think the poppies from a bagel would actually grow?

 

not if the seeds were baked

 

does the plant have to be alive when you make the cuts

 

I would imagine. you can keep cutting the pod every few days until it stops producing opium

 

exactly; dried pods won't have any sap, obviously

tip: make the slits in the morning, and collect a couple hours later, by midday. alkaloid levels decline as day turns to night.