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Mawseed "Hen and Chickens"
Blue bread seed poppy "Hen & Chickens" (mawseed, opium poppy) - Papaver somniferum.
This poppy is also beautiful during flowering: large, bright, crimson flowers with a purple centre. Plants are tall - up to 100 cm and not prone to lodging.
The flowers are not very long-lived, as with all poppies, but in bouquets not intended to stand for a long time in a vase, they look very impressive.
By the way, lovers of dry bouquets and flower arrangements do not appreciate it for this: after flowering, pot-bellied round seed pods of an unusual shape remain - around the "central" pod there are peeking out from under it, like chickens from under a chicken, boxes ten times smaller!
And sometimes they are located in several rows. The ability to form such boxes in this poppy is not very stable: some flowers leave behind traditional "single" heads, therefore, if you want to collect the seeds of this annual poppy, then they should be taken only from those plants in which the property of forming "chickens" is expressed most obviously.
Poppies prefer sunny locations, are cold-hardy, and undemanding of soil. Seeds are sown directly into the greenhouse in late April or early May. Seedlings emerge in 7–12 days and are thinned to 20–25 cm. Poppies do not transplant well.
Seeds can be sown directly into the greenhouse several times in a row throughout the summer, and the plants will bloom all summer long. Removing faded flowers prolongs flowering. Regular application of a complete fertilizer is recommended, which will impart rich color to the leaves and flowers.
1,0 g = 3500 seeds.
This poppy is also beautiful during flowering: large, bright, crimson flowers with a purple centre. Plants are tall - up to 100 cm and not prone to lodging.
The flowers are not very long-lived, as with all poppies, but in bouquets not intended to stand for a long time in a vase, they look very impressive.
By the way, lovers of dry bouquets and flower arrangements do not appreciate it for this: after flowering, pot-bellied round seed pods of an unusual shape remain - around the "central" pod there are peeking out from under it, like chickens from under a chicken, boxes ten times smaller!
And sometimes they are located in several rows. The ability to form such boxes in this poppy is not very stable: some flowers leave behind traditional "single" heads, therefore, if you want to collect the seeds of this annual poppy, then they should be taken only from those plants in which the property of forming "chickens" is expressed most obviously.
Poppies prefer sunny locations, are cold-hardy, and undemanding of soil. Seeds are sown directly into the greenhouse in late April or early May. Seedlings emerge in 7–12 days and are thinned to 20–25 cm. Poppies do not transplant well.
Seeds can be sown directly into the greenhouse several times in a row throughout the summer, and the plants will bloom all summer long. Removing faded flowers prolongs flowering. Regular application of a complete fertilizer is recommended, which will impart rich color to the leaves and flowers.
1,0 g = 3500 seeds.
