Poppies are easy as shit to grow. Its diffiult to foul up actually, to a point where you get nothing at all.
Even here in cloudy, cold, overcast rainy britain, a pod crop is worth it, and a big enough on can if extracted with solvents rather than just lanced, yield some very good H. Although, a tip-propionyl diester of morphine is far more potent, faster, longer acting, all round a superior drug to either H or morphine. Lasts a long time, rather like pod tea does and IVed, packs a hell of a wallop.