This looks like a great invention and should sell really well. I am in my 5th year as a beekeeper and I may actually try one for the novelty: My concern is all the folks that thought they couldn't keep bees before this invention and now think they can. If you can't keep bees without the flow hive, you probably shouldn't with the flow hive. I would estimate that harvesting honey is one of the easier tasks of the beekeeper. Some other tasks that may not be as pleasant are; re-queening an aggressive hive; swarm prevention; swarm collection from your angry neighbors yard; dealing with your bees over-taking your neighbors pool as their watering source; pests, predators, pathogens, parasites, cures and preventions, hive splitting; varroa mite monitoring, pesticide exposure/monitoring; stings; your neighbor getting stung (unlikely but you will be blamed for every sting); and the list could go on for awhile.
Plus without pulling the frame to inspect, there's no way to know if Small Hive Beetles have turned one of the hidden from view sections into their toilet room. It looks like slime and will just be mixed with the honey. Mmmm yummy! lol
I also forgot to mention American Foul Brood (AFB). Where I am we're required to burn our hives if the disease is contracted. I think I may just try a frame or 2.
***** I do as long as they're going about it the right way. Folks need to educate themselves and be prepared to become beekeepers; not just honey harvesters.
This is unbelievable. Great job on making this very easy for those that are bee keepers. This would be perfect for me if I was a bee keeper being that I make mead. I wouldn't have to buy honey any more. Great job. Keep up the great work.
Not gonna lie. Seeing this actually makes me contemplate learning the fine art of beekeeping. Bees are already fascinating creatures, but having access to their honey without having to jump through several hoops? Yeah, that makes it all the more enticing. There's nothing quite like freshly harvested honey. Pity I haven't been able to get ahold of any freshly collected honey in many years.
+SlayerZaraki With the Flow hive, you still need to take care of your bees! The only thing that this changes is the way the honey is harvested. Though, it looks *a lot* easier, and that's why I bought one. Find and join a local bee club to learn about bees, and watch videos here on RU-vid before jumping in.
Karen Carol Oh, of course. There are no bee clubs around here - not even close, really - but I am doing large amounts of research all the same. I've gotten ahold of a few people that are already actively keeping bees. Figured they would be good sources of information. The unfortunate fact, though, is that the honeybee population in my area has dwindled to almost nothing. The prospect of being able to harvest the honey relatively easily is a nice one, I cannot deny, but I'm probably more interested in just getting some healthy bees back into the area. Even if it means I get stung a few times, 'cause really, that's basically inevitable.
Good for you! I've kept bees for several years, and only just started harvesting honey. I did the same as you, studied everything I could before starting. I'm surprised that there aren't bee clubs near you, our club has over 300 members. Where are you? (approximately?)
Karen Carol I'm in a little backwoods part of the state of Tennessee. There are some bee clubs, but the closest one I found was roughly a day's travel by car. Of course, it's also possible some exist that simply don't have much presence on the internet. In this area, there's quite a few associations and the like that never quite "got with the times". I'll have to keep looking.
This cool I love the hives... Am a bee keeper for the last 7 years unfortunately I can't harvest the honey alone. The seems to be easy. Can I get such hives.... En congratulations for your innovation... Am from KENYA
First of all, I'd like to commend you for your invention. I believe the Flow Hive will allow regular suburban citizens like me to start our own hives without all the mess and hard work involved in bee keeping. This could surely work to combat the bee crisis and repopulate the critical species of our ecosystem that is the bee. Secondly, I'd like to recommend (and request) that you publish tutorial videos that instuct us on how to operate and maintain your hive (eg. Any cleaning that is required, how to manage the queen etc.). I think many people who invest in your technology would appreciate the advice. Thanks for reading and responding.
The Flow Hive Full Reveal video will help raise the interest and excitement level of potential beekeepers. Historically, this could be the pivotal moment to actually get a new wave of beekeepers. Think of it... a beekeeping club in every rural county, or every major neighborhood. (Remember... three mile radius.) If your community has a Garden Club, or Betterment Association, or Boy Scout Troop, or 4H, or FFA... (and the list goes on), the Flow Hive could be just the thing to raise the level of excitement and interest to get young teens involved, as well as the newly retired (...with disposable income). If you've ever wanted to become a part of something important... and 'bigger than yourself... recruiting and teaching the next generation of beekeepers may be exactly what you're looking for.
i wonder how many commissions of inquiry have been established within the hive to determine how the hell is honey disappearing from the cells? great invention, and i want it
this is ridiculously funny, the majority of that honey is probably not ready yet... without taking the comb out you wouldn't know if the entire thing is capped or not lol
So they start chewing away the caps and fix things the same day it is drained. That's pretty awesome, it means that they will start filling it again real soon.
Really a nice idea. Bees frequently fill honeycomb from the edge of a frame toward the center. Do you have a way to figure out if the cells in the center of the frames are also filled and capped. Seems like you could be mixing completed honey with nectar or honey with high moisture content. Do you have high water content in your collected honey? How do you select the frames to drain?
Mr Mohammed it's not commercially available in India, cause it's just a unique and new invention in the history of bee keeping. You have to contact the manufacturer directly Flow honey there they have detailed everything. All the best.
Mohammed Aslam Hi Aslam, I hope you are good, I am Yaswanth and I am eager to know this invention, could you please let me know the details about this if you have or you can give me any contact details so that I will contact. Thank you
Hi Reddy Garu, if you are in India it will be a very costly product, however, you can get all the info on their site Flow Honey.com. But in my view its not a feasible product and it will be a failure. Cost wise as well performance. If you are a professional beekeeper, all the best.
wow...that's an amazing hive! so...painless, and convenient! granted, you don't get any wax from this hive, but that' samazingly simple to collect the honey! very impressive.
Am I correct in saying the cells themselves are already formed for the bees, out of some vinyl or polymer material? Looks like quite the user-friendly, no disturb and get stung operation, but I have concerns about the materials leaching into the honey. Also, as others have stated, there are a variety of uses for which wax would be beneficial.
I'm curious if the honey produced is exactly the same as that produced by the standard waxed based frame template that apiarists usually used? Honey is essentially a dehydrated hydrolysed sucrose solution, if it's not exactly separated between cells (i.e. a little be seeps between your two sheering structures) isn't this going to affect the ability of bees to re-digest the sugars then dehydrated with wing fanning?
I personally feel that this is one of the latest and the coolest invention of extracting honey out of the hives without being stung, disturbed the bees and destroy the combs. Please share how have you made this or how to buy this from you.
that is a really nice hive i love your observation viewer what is that nethod you are using i have seen the plastic frames before but not the self draining honey ones, that is amazing and so fast .
Wondering what the average harvest time is between each cell wall? One man mentioned in the video they gather 7kg of honey from two blocks. If it is 3.5kg each, how often are they able to get that?
My Flow Hive did not come with those nice flex tubes, rubber stopper inserts or special jar cap. It came with short straight tubes. Extracting was a mess because there was no good way to cover the honey as it left the tubes into the open jars. I tried plastic wrap and mesh but the bees still swarmed the back side and kept getting into the jar and stuck. I would like to do it like in your video this next time. Where can I get those tubes? What is the tube diameter? Approximately how much honey should I expect from each frame, (pints? Quarts?) so I can plan the jar size without having to swap out mid stream?
Estoy asombrado por este invento. Es increíble lo que se puede ahorrar en costos operativos. También me preocupa lo que puede generar en la economía de pequeñas cooperativas, Otra vez los propietarios de grandes territorios de tierras generarán monopolios y manejarán el valor de la miel. Esa es la parte fea. Tarde o temprano los inventarían.
I have one thought, this is a perfect solution, But will the bees get used to it and forget how to build the honeycombs by themselves? I just think, everyone will do it like this one day, cause it's just awesome for us but what about this part? The future will show i guess... What are your thoughts
Do you know if its legal to have a colony in the Los Angeles area? I read somewhere that it depends on your ZIP code but I can't find any other information on it. I remember bees use to be a normal occurrence in my neighborhood 10 years ago and I haven't seen one in probably 7 years. Having fresh organic honey doesn't hurt either :)
Also, are the plastics you are planning on using specified up to high heat? Hives can get pretty messy and mucked up after a while you'll need to eventually melt the mucky mixture of waxes and other natural hydrocarbons out? Are the materials robust against more aggressive chemical treatments?
I don't know exactly what plastic they use, but it's described as a food grade plastic, so it better well tolerate hot water. As for chemical treatments, it depends what you mean. Plastics in general are pretty corrosion resistant, but it depends on the circumstances. Anyway, it would seem an incredible, unrealistic oversight to choose a plastic that can't handle standard cleaning practices.
Glendon, we haven't found the Flow™ comb itself needs cleaning if it stays in the hive - the bees do a great job of keeping it clean. If you remove Flow™ Frames from the hive and store them for a while they may need cleaning. You can do this by using hot water (just hot enough to melt wax). A hot water hose is good. Set the Flow™ comb to ‘cell open’ position, this allows the water to run quite easily through all parts of the frame. We have designed the honey trough at the bottom of the frame so that any remaining honey can drip back into the hive for the bees to use. If the honey leak-back gap remains clear this works well; however, if the bees block it up some honey may remain in the honey trough after harvest. Clear the leak-back gap prior to harvest and inspect the honey trough. If the honey trough is dirty it can be cleaned from outside the hive using a bottle brush or something similar. If you are storing your Flow™ Frames for any length of time outside the hive, ensure they are kept away from the light as the Flow™ frame plastic is UV sensitive. Store the frames in a cool, dry, dark location. - leah
The bees are never gonna eat all that honey anyway. Or i would not think so with the amount of energy a bee needs, and how much energy there is in honey.
Here is a link to our instructions on how to modify a Super box to fit the Flow Frames - www.honeyflow.com/about-flow/flow-hive-assembly-modifications/p/142 and here's a link to a video of Stu showing how to modify a traditional Super box for the Flow Frames -www.honeyflow.com/gallery-videos/videos/p/60#uR20DVAeMGw
I would like see something about making sure the bees have enough food for the winter with this method. Also once the honey is drained will you have to remove the frame and clean where the bees added wax?
+The Prepping Engineer So I've done a LOT of research and talked to bee keepers and actually harvested honey from their hives. They are different colors from different crystallizations, I got 3 jars from the beekeeper, one was almost pure white while the others were a golden glaze. The pure white is creamy and is ground up crystals. The golden glaze is like normal honey that you can find in the store but without all the preservatives and it is fresher. Basically... It's based on age because the older it is, the more crystallized it is, inside the bee hive that is...
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