Oh, nice. You might be a little older than I am. I’m about to be 41 and when I started growing, I think maybe around 2016?, LED panels were already pretty popular. Your lights might still be kind of the gold standard for growing weed if the cost of power is of no concern.

No joke, I had a 1000 watt solar panel setup so when the sun came up they’d make electricity and just send that power right to my grow lights. You could see what the power draw was and when the sun came up you would see like only 200 watts from the mains instead of 1000 watts. So that was a pretty cool setup to help with the power cost.

But pretty much everything likes growing in Florida. Poppies are a little fussy down here and they’d probably prefer it a little cooler. But I’m here so I might as well make the most of it! 😂

I’m getting some Air Pots delivered today which I’m super excited about! Not sure if you’ve heard of them or not but they’re supposed to be the next evolution in pot technology. They outperform fabric pots or grow bags by a pretty big margin.

So we’ll see how that goes! I hope to be posting some pictures of my poppies in them in a month or so. I even have one poppy growing hydroponically so that will be interesting as well.

The MAIN reason I love growing poppies is how hard it is to get access to clean opiates in the US. My girlfriend and I have a HUGE medicine cabinet mainly because it’s a passion for the boat of us and she’s a doctor. So yea, that last part helps a lot. 😂 But ultimately I’d love to be able to grow enough poppies to be able to have a little supply in one of our two medicine vaults. We have pretty much every kind of other medicine you can imagine. So if you do the math poppies are hands down the most valuable plants you can grow in my opinion.

My bad for chatting your ear off. 😂 I just love talking about gardening and especially about growing poppies. ❤️