Hello, I'm growing annual poppies in a pot, indoors. Will they die after blooming, or I can make them live longer by keeping tham warm and cutting old flowers?
Thank you

I'm sorry no one answered this! Annual poppies are monocarpic, so after they bloom and set seed they will die. In this way monocarpy allows them to make many more seeds all at once than perennial plants.

Depending on the type of annual poppy, you may not be able to make the plants live longer by cutting flowers. Some have very short bloom periods and want to die quickly after producing as many flowers/seeds as possible.

I grow various species of Papaver and Eschscholzia, and Eschscholzia seems to be more amenable to deadheading, but only by a bit. In some climates which are more arid than mine I imagine it would be more receptive.

Yes, all the annual poppies I've grown will quickly die after flowering and seeding. If they are thinned and have plenty of room and the right growing conditions I have seen some annual poppies produce several large blooms. What kind of light are you using? Natural? I have always wanted to grow things indoors that "weren't supposed to be grown indoors." Like things that are normally very hard or impossible to grow indoors. I love a challenge.

Annuals are among the easiest things to grow indoors. Another member and I grow Zinnias indoors all year, every year.