Poppy Pods strategy

[ncksol]

Is there any optimal strategy on getting poppy pods? I know the chance is random after 24 hours of reaching Stage 5, but is there any use for waiting more than 24 hours? I've had about 4-5 harvests so far of poppies and not a single pod, quite frustrating =(

[Nightdawg]

You can wait more than 24 hours, have a separate field of poppies and leave it in the final stage for a longer time. Try 48 hours or more, they will eventually all have pods.

[Sevenless]

I left poppies for maybe a week, and got ~half the poppies as opium.

[Audiosmurf]

What I do is grow two fields, and harvest the secondary one every alternate harvest of the primary field. Has worked fairly well since opium was introduced.

[ncksol]

Cheers. I'll try with a separate field for alternation.