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Poppy, breadseed (Papaver spp.) Planting Calculator
Papaver spp.
Everything you need to plan Poppy, breadseed (Papaver spp.): recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.
At a glance
- Recommended spacing
- 9″
- Planting pattern
- Intensive bed
- Time to first production
- 90 days from sowing
- Succession planting
- Recommended
- Every 14 days
- Start indoors
- 3 weeks before
- before last frost
- Production pattern
- One-hit producer
- Hardy annual
Plan your Poppy, breadseed (Papaver spp.) beds
Prefilled with Poppy, breadseed (Papaver spp.)'s recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.
Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 9″Range null–null″
Your plan
326
Total plants
Based on 1.63 plants/sq ft at 9″ spacing
- Seeds to start (10% buffer)
- 359
- 72-cell trays needed
- 5
- 128-cell trays needed
- 3
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Planning notes
- Corralling
One-hit producer. A planting gives a concentrated harvest over a short window, so more frequent successive plantings are used to keep a continuous supply.
- This crop can be direct sown.
- Corralling for structural support is commonly used.