For the first time in about 6 years I have left the honey supers on all my hives. Call me lazy or just too much to do. So I won't be extracting alot this year. I did do a box of comb honey this year so I'll be working on that. Had a tornado take down 15 Leyland Cyprus trees in my yard so I been using my echo chainsaw alot this summer. So maybe with my supers on hopefully won't have to feed as much. We will see. Thanks for your time this morning Bob. Always a pleasure sir!
We got close to 1/4" of rain last week and almost 3/4" last night. Supposed to rain this afternoon and into the night. So maybe ................ just maybe, we may have some honey to harvest this year! Thank You for another fun and informative video!
😊 linden trees are just starting to bloom here its too bad there arent many except in towns There are massive canola crops this year ,the huge farm debt is the great motivator for planting canola . Its so interesting to see your beekeeping way south of us . Smokey, hot 86f ,and humid in central sask was 94 a couple days ago Great vid thanks mr Binnie
I too have had brood problems this year… for buying half of my replacement queens and seeing them struggle the same as the queens i raised I have wondered what the issues were Glad your making some sour wood honey
Bob, thanks for the tip on the Vitex. Just looked up preferred pH. What I found said 6-8. Glad to know the low brood this year is not just something I am doing wrong. I'm in middle GA. Just did some splits and was getting very frustrated because they were back filling all the brood areas and I had little to no brood. Made it difficult on deciding how to split the hives since I had a bunch of frames that were almost full of honey and only 2-3 that had brood.
I will greatly trade some rain and cooler temperatures to this 100° plus heat here in California. Over 4 billion gallons of water evaporated from Shasta Lake just in the month of July with August to be just as hot. Oroville Lake still full due to snow runoff from last winter replenishing the ground water a lot here in the foothills. Bushes, grasses, and trees still in bloom are sucking the nectar right back up into these plants for their own survival making us feed sugar syrup a necessity. Star Thistle east of interstate 5 still looking good. Lots of yellow flowers with many florets. Those that go to Nevada, been there done that, for irrigated Alfalfa and Clover fields are lucky despite the drive. Also generous amounts of pollen from Rabbit Brush Sage throughout the summer is a benefit going into the fall and winter. Great to see you guys pulling Sourwood honey and requeening during a strong nectar flow, really smart for queen acceptance percentages like you mentioned. Keep up the good work. Thanks 🐝
@lenturtle7954, No, I didn't go that far northeast except for clover in Pershing County near Lovelock once. Stayed mostly between Gardnerville and Yerington. Though it's sad to see some of the Alfalfa ranches being pressured into retiring, surrendering, selling, you pick the word, their water rights to the state. They still keep their land, but how do you farm without summer irrigation. Maybe pick a crop that winter rain makes it grow then harvest. I don't know if they have a fourth crop like my hay guy south of Yuba City, California. I've seen a trend to just have 2 cuttings and then let the 3rd go to seed. For the beekeeper going to Nevada this is better than the regular 10% to 20% bloom then cut, rake, and bail. A full field to collect nectar now is definitely a plus. So I hope this explains your reply about going to Newmonts and Carlin's irrigated fields. They do have some pumpkin and squash crops next to pollen filled rabbit brush that are great to set your bees in and pollinate for. Thanks. 🐝
Yep. With our variety of bees less was more in the last flow this year. Mine were on 7 brood frames and the new queens dominated the space with brood pretty good. 6 would be better on some but all together... the honey went above excluders. We even got a bonus Metcalfa aphid flow right now. Thank God there's still some pollen around. If not it would be a big problem now before dearth
Hello Bob, it's always a pleasure watching your videos good work you, always make it look so simple i love it. What length t-posts do you use for your fence?
Thanks for all your videos. Really appreciate them and look forward to them each week. With the brood nest already constricted will you have to add boxes to catch the sumac and prevent them plugging out? Or is the sumac flow to come a pretty small quantity?
Well the plus side is that you don't have to spend money on feeding them. Maybe they'll have some room opened up during the goldenrod for the queen to rear more brood.
Good morning Bob. Nice video. When will you be putting the probiotic product on your hives? Mine are finally recovering from either theft or spray. I want to boost their gut health a bit Suggestions?
Ha Bob so good to see you hope you got a lot of sour wood always enjoy your videos, I decided to try the apigaurd like you do I like it Bob. I did only use the 25 gram here 3 treatments it has been so hot here how long did u said to Waite before u do a mite check. Did u ever get with roger on his experiment on the oa extended release. They are making it to sell some company they are going to sell it for almost 90 bucks I counted the strips I think you can treat 7 hives with 1 pack double deeps, can u tell me did he do it the same as randy 2-1/2 sponges per deep box layed on top of frames someone on here said he cut the sponges in to 4"s but I have not seen anything on it anyway Thanks for every video u share with all of us they help more then you know. I look forward to the next 1. I hope you and your wonderful family have a very Blessed week.
Hi Frances. If we use 25 gram doses of Apiguard instead of full doses we try to do it four times which would add up to two full doses. Perhaps the three will work for you. We spot check the results soon after we're done in case they need one more half dose. Greg did find that four half pads of extended oxalic worked better than two full pads. I hope to have a video on this in the fall. Thank you.
Oh I forgot, I had one other question for you. Other than in positioning, do bees build swarm cells out to be in any different in size or shape than supersedure cells? I meant they can look different, but usually they all are built out the same-- correct? I ask because someone told me supersedure cells are always much fatter then swarm cells, but i don't know that to be true. Grateful.
It’s been very dry here. Everything has dried up. Very little pollen out there. The queens have almost shutdown. I’m thinking seriously about giving them pollen supplements.
Bob, Great video. If I am wanting to draw out more foundation after the flow should I use a 1:1 syrup mixture or something less thick? Most say 1:1 but I have heard you mention a thinner opltion for drawing comb. I don't need them to make honey but I do want to draw out more foundation. Would you use 1:1 or something else?
Thank you for your videos I know you don't need to make them .Starting up a Comercial honey bee keeping business is a hard roar. There is no magic magic button to push .My big question is were is the honey house we can sell ower honey harvist USDA . How do we sell honey on the world market .At $2.80 .per lb in 260 gallon totes . Thank you Kelly Carpenter positive expression
Although we have been paying $2.60 to $2.75 we've been turning down a lot of calls. Large packers are not paying much right now. I'm afraid I don't have a good answer.
Hey Bob!! wow!! love that sourwood....do you have any idea when you might be having 2024 Sourwood for sale? i got my itchy finger on the buy button!!! :)
Bob what is your temperature in your area going to be to make it safe to put Apiguard on your hives. Its been in the high 90's to 100 here in Maryland for the last two weeks with high humidity not safe to put Apiguard on in my opinion even if the label state it can be applied up to 105 degrees.
Great video bob. I have a question for you. We are in our dearth, as most are, and was wondering, does it matter if I give the bees syrup or HiveAlive Fondant? I have a lot of HiveAlive Fondant. Why is one better or different than the other? Grateful.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you Bob. I thought so, but wanted to make sure. By the way, I'm going to get six gallons of honey this year off my two hives. Love it
Wondering if you have ever had simple syrup go bad after several months. Will it ferment? I have had some sitting for 4 months and it has a different odor. I think it is still good but not sure. Can you give an opinion, thanks. jr
Hey bob I have my hives in the shade almost all day they get an hour or two of morning light. Should I move them to sun all day it’s 8 hives my first year
why start your videos when you are know to screw down your hives to solid bases seems very not as you can't tilt back your hives as the canadian bee keeper most surely does to see the other side
