JungleGhost
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California poppies
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Yes. Very easy, very lovely, great anti-anxiety medicine, non-addictive for me. (Does not produce opioids.)Anybody have experience cultivating these? About to try germinating some.
The dried husks of the seed pods can be used in various ways, the flower stamens are also worth collecting once the petals are about to drop if you grow a lot of plants, but mostly it's the root that gets used medicinally as an anxiolytic sedative.
The fresh foliage is mildly poisonous to ingest, e.g. if made into a tea. Dry it first.
Please keep a record of your grow - I'd love to see how it turns out. I used to have a planter of these with woodchip mulch and Psilocybe cyanescens
JungleGhost
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Got some seedingz, do u make extract? Interested in using it for my nerves.
Wait for them to grow BIG, then collect the seed pods before they burst, just as they start to dry out a little. Put them in a paper envelope while they dry out and pop open. Save the seeds for future planting, but powder the now empty pods.
If you have enough large plants, you can gather the roots as well. You'd best let them grow for a year or two (weather conditions permitting). Both the roots and the empty pods can be made into a tincture. The roots are stronger.
The fresh plant is toxic - it must be dried before use, but tbh I find the foliage a bit weak (although it was grown in the UK - warmer climates might well produce a stronger plant). Another nice thing to do was collecting the stamens from the flowers as they finished. Dried stamens in particular were quire nice to smoke, along with the petals.
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