they are very delicate when newborns.. I had 15 poppy plants last year, 7 or them were good for a little bit latex..
I was just watching a thing on it last night that said that an ace will give about ten kilograms of opium on average if you do it right. Apparently you could get 4 kilos from a quarter-acre if you really know what you're doing.
if i were to grow the opium poppy it would be done because of the beautiful blooms these plants have. i do not have the desire to go into opium production
http://www.erowid.org/archive/rhodium/chemistry/opium.html According to Erowid, the average yield is about 80 milligrams per pod. I'm too lazy to figure out what that equates to.