Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 11:28 AM
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Thanks warrior! I’m tempted to buy some different honeys now to taste test!
Cold as ice!
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Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 11:59 AM
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Thanks warrior! I’m tempted to buy some different honeys now to taste test! I got some bitterweed going cheap. LOL You got to try tupelo, the real tupelo the Florida panhandle. It tastes like butter.
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Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 01:27 PM
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The one I want to try is heather honey from the Scottish highlands. It's thixotropic or a solid at rest but a liquid when stirred. You cannot pour this honey from a jar unless you stir it well first. It can not be extracted from the comb via conventional means it must be pressed from the comb. How do you go about getting some of that?
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Re: Spring honey
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I like Manuka honey. I also like thistle honey. Every one kills the thistle around me so it's hard to get that in the hive.
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Re: Spring honey
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The one I want to try is heather honey from the Scottish highlands. It's thixotropic or a solid at rest but a liquid when stirred. You cannot pour this honey from a jar unless you stir it well first. It can not be extracted from the comb via conventional means it must be pressed from the comb. How do you go about getting some of that? Order online.
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Re: Spring honey
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06/11/19 03:10 PM
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Locust honey is my favorite here, but I haven't tastes any I didn't like in the 30+ years we've had bees on our farm Do y'all have just langstroth hives or do you have some top bar too. I am wanting to try the top bar mostly for honey comb and just because I like to try new things.
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Re: Spring honey
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Yea Matt we have some top bar, I'll try to take some pics later and post. My uncle has always built all of ours, but most are langsworth style Nice! Yes please get pics. I like seeing how other are set up.
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Re: Spring honey
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Nothing but bad luck this year. Purchased a package of bee mid April. Nice queen but two weeks later no egg and no queen. Purchased a queen put her in with the bee still in the cage and the next day dead. I went to the Amish dealer where I got the queen and he had none left so he gave me a frame of bees with fresh eggs in hopes they would make a queen. no luck. Do have a laying worker so plenty of drones just no queen yet. So there goes $120.00 down the drain. What to do NOW? Any suggestions?
Combine with a strong queenright colony. This is why it's best to start with two colonies. Laying worker can be corrected but by time is all said and done you're better off taking your loss and doing the combine. To turn it around you need open brood as open brood produces pheromones that work in conjunction with queen pheromone to keep workers ovaries suppressed. Each week take the laying worker colony 200-300 feet away and shake out every bee. This is an attempt to separate the laying workers (note plural) which supposedly are not flighted while the rest fly home. Return the hive to it's original location and add at least one frame of open brood. Repeat weekly until they draw a queen cell with provided brood frame. I've turned a few around over the years this way but almost invariably I've done so by stripping other colonies of brood while the one I'm tryin save ends up to weak to be worth saving.
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