Beekeeping | How To Know When Your Honey Frames Are Ready 

Thank you for the awesome videos! Wish the live steam was on adifferent time. Living in Europe..

Your videos are always just what I need! Thank you for all the time you spend making these quality, and informative videos!!

I always give you a thumbs up.😊

Thank you. I had already spun out a decent bit of honey to make space for my honey-bound hives this year. Most of those frames were not capped… but we’re closer to the brood area of my horizontal hives… and should be older nectar. I figured (was hoping) they left it uncapped for swarming. I got a refractometer and it wound up being about 16.5% luckily. Re-stocked my personal stash… and am bringing in 7 bottles to work this morning to sell.

David, thanks for doing this video because I have several frames not completely capped, you have answered many questions for me. Enjoy the Bourbon Maple syrup on many foods.

Great information David, appreciate your videos always.

Haha, that's awesome, hope you like the coffee mug!

Really informative, many thanks from the UK.

SO HELPFUL!

Great informations, thx David

Thank you Dave

Thanks so much! Looks like I probably have more that is harvestable than I thought! We do have a refractometer so I will check the frames out here!

Thanks David!

Hello Dave enjoy all of your great videos and was nice to meet you at 2023 HiveLife and hope to see you at the next America’s Adventure for bees

Another awesome video!!

Good video David, some real good informative content! Enjoyed it, thanks 😎

I love the well thought out and timely videos, thank you David!

Very interesting! Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I guess honey moisture content also has to do with location location and climate. Great idea to always test. Thanks, Gina

More great info , thank you sir

Thank you for another great video. Hope to meet you at EAS.

Good idea for an episode.

I wished my spring honey is that light. Mine is real dark. Great video

Timely video....as always

Excellent video. I have just bought the refactometer

Hi David, You mentioned at the start that you calibrated your refractometer. Yet later you say that they come calibrated, plus in your other video, you say not to mess with the calibration. So why did you need to calibrate your refractometer, this time? (I use my refractometer, constantly. Even on my extracted honey, to make sure it's not changing.) Thanks!

Hi David Long time watcher. Keeping bees four years now. Truly enjoy and apply your knowledge and suggestions. Thank-you. A question about honey moisture. What is a good average moisture percentage at time of harvest?

Is that a hive beatle scurrying around on your frame.

Just bought one of these devices. Dave, how do you clean the slide between tests? Thanks.

If you extract excess backfill nectar from deep frames what is the Brix reading to make 1:1 to feed back to the bees. Isn’t feeding back diluted nectar better then refined sugar?

I am still not clear what the moisture content should be?

Thank you for the great video! What do we do with our super frames that are not ready? It is getting close to time to treat for mites. I can't treat until the supers are off.

Thanks for the info. I don’t see the link for the refractometer.

Wow, so even the last frame was ready to be bottled and had the lowest moisture content?

What percentage should be the cur off?

So what is the rating supposed to be?

Still don’t see the link for the refractometer.

Hi