Bob, on our family farm in Northern Central NC, we have about 200 trees. Older beekeepers tell me, its impossible for me to have sourwood trees, but mine look exactly like yours. I sell it for $20/lb and I never have enough.
If the sourwood supers aren't all capped do you pull them anyway and use a dehumidifier to lower the moisture before extraction. Hope you have an excellent crop. Nice to see someone having a successful time. Always look forward to your videos and your insights.
Had some of your Sourwood and it is amazing. The Tupelo is wonderful as well. My new approach is to buy like fine wine. Have a list of around 20 flavors I hope to sample but trouble is finding trusted sources to buy from.
Hey bob just wanted to thank you for the double screen board method video im in Illinois and i can split in march and sell nucs early before any body else
Where? Mount Vernon or Cairo? I'm up in champaign. If you got queens next may first I want some plz. I do splits and adding a mated queen would put me a couple weeks ahead of the game. We could do some exchanging too if you're interested. My bees are local bred mutts. They act like Italians because of how I do things. This year the clover honey flow actually happened and thanks to a rainstorm today it looks like it's going to continue. Water white honey. Wheeeee
Bob, summing up some questions from my subscribers: in one of the videos you were talking about migrational beekeeping as a part of your earlier life (Oregon, California, pollinating job). Could you speak a little more about it? Perhaps your have some old pics and videos that are worth sharing. Thank you again for your educational work. I continue to translate your videos, they are very appreciated, especially in Ukraine.
The best pictures I have right now are in the video "4 decades of Commercial Beekeeping" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dBkNts-FWVg.html. So much as happened since those days that it seems like a different lifetime. I was younger then and could withstand the challenges of the extra long hours of work. That is what it takes to be successful in this business. In this country we refer to this type of thing as "paying your dues". I don't have any old videos but I may try and find more old photos and post them as a photo album in time. Thanks.
Hi.. Bob Hope you are doing well. Your videos are very informative, please share us information about Sourwood tree seeds for plantation in Pakistan to cover shortage of bees nectar especially in summer season.
I'm a beekeeper and will be 69 in a few days. I ordered four trees from a nursery and hope to see some benefit from them. Can't wait to get some sourwood honey. Thanks for the great honeybee lessons Bob. And for telling us about Sourwood honey. I hear it may be the legendary fountain of youth! lol
Have you ever considered producing comb honey from the Sourwood? My sister lived in N.C. and now in Tennessee. She's sent me sourwood honey and it is quite good
@@bobbinnie9872 Comb honey is by far the best. My father asked me (when I was relatively new to beekeeping) if I knew how to make it. I asked my mentor and he set me up.
@@bobbinnie9872 Would you be willing to demonstrate your process of producing comb honey? I've only found one on youtube by Herman Danenhower. He isn't too far from me and I've bought the Hogg Half Comb cassettes from him. He does the Juniper Hill split. It's excellent
Hi ! I hope to be able to acclimatize it for the honey value, also in Central Europe. If it blooms in July and August, it is exactly the hardest time for bees due to the lack of pollen and nectar in nature. Thanks ! p.s. The greatest value of honey for us is acacia. Triple compared to basswood.
Man, what a beautiful bloom. The star thistle is in bloom where I have an outyard on the unplanted verge of a wheat field. The lavender is popping as well, but there is not enough to make a full honey crop. I am talking to the owners of a lavender Farm next year.
I'm always glad when you put out a new video I always learn something from it. Used to live in Atlanta never heard of that tree I didn't do bees back then I think being a beekeeper is great for people to deftly makes you closer to nature Thank you For sharing your knowledge.
Hey Bob is there any way I can get some of the seed pods from those sourwood trees . I live in Prince George, Va and I would like to see how this tree does in my area . If you’d like send me a pm and I will give you my address. TIA !
Hi Christian. I would be happy too. They are ready around Nov. 1. As far as I know You Tube has stop private messaging. Send an e-mail with your address around the first of Nov. The channel home page has our e-mail address.
I've got several on the edge of the woods behind my house and I pretty much keep a path beaten to them checking several times a day. We got heavy morning rain the first three days that it had a good bloom it's been real slow with out many bees since then. Not much rain since then so we'll see.
Ha Bob u have a nice place thanks for showing us it. Your videos are great I really enjoy them . the flow is over here where I live now getting the bees ready for the winter trying to get them to build up. u have a wonderful day hope u do more videos very soon. Thanks
@@bobbinnie9872 I bet we just had a big Tulip tree bloom ,it's pretty also,I bet it sure is a sight to see all of em,I bet it sounds busy around em,sure do enjoy your videos Bob, Very good and I certainly appreciate them
Hi Kathy. I honestly don't know. An old friend of mine that is a retired bee inspector for Western North Carolina, and who saw many, many beeyards in his career, told me he usually saw the largest Sourwood crops between 1800 ft and 2200 ft elevation. He didn't know why either.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thanks a lot for the info. Here in central NC I have Maybe around 40 tree on my property and just started blooming but it is a no go but on the other nectar I am having a good season but it is dropping off now .Hope you have a great season . Thanks
Good morning Bob! Seems like you set for good flow from sourwood, hopefully good weather will holds up for you, we did good on a black locusts here in SE PA Thanks to very cold spring which pushes blooming late and let's weather to settle, seems like sourwood just like black locusts for us let us secure a good crop in every 4 to 5 years , black locusts also produce premium light honey high in demand, right now some of our colonies working on basswood which for a last 3 years don't do very well we did good on it for 12 years in a row and suddenly it quits on us seems like trees going through some kind of stress last few years, this year it looks not great just ok, other than that we are splitting colonies large 8 frames splits will start supplement feeding in a week or so,one week of splitting 500 more colonies, and may be able to sneak out fishing for a couple days)) . I tasted sourwood honey my good friend from GA gave me some you probably know him, his name Jerry Hill owner of a sugar hill berry farm , it's a good honey. Best wishes to you with a sourwood flow hope all you hard work will be rewarded with a bumper crop of a sweet goodness !!!
We don't get sourwood trees in the UK and certainly not in enough numbers to have a honey crop but I can definitely understand wanting to keep it pure, a couple of years ago we had enough camomile growing in the field next to our house that we got quite a few frames of camomile honey. You could really taste the camomile in it. It was amazing stuff but I don't think we'll ever get enough to have it again.
Any time we can get a special variety we try and keep it separate because it seems to bring a better price. The name "camomile honey" would alone command special attention.
@@bobbinnie9872 It could almost be worth renting a field and sowing it with something different each year...I know the people who tried the camomile honey were very taken with it
We got sourwood here where we live and the flow did not stop yet since spring. 2 weeks ago I extracted the spring honey and the bees did not slow down yet to bring nectar in. Had to pick up more equipment today and just waiting for the bees to dry up some honey and cap it, many frames are full of wet honey. I may just pull the capped frames and give them new frames to draw or give them drawn out frames to fill up, just have to keep a close eye on it so they do not swarm.
@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you. I picked up some supplies in McDowell county and those beekeepers did not get a spring honey nor may they get fall honey, their combs are bone dry.
The trees look like they will be flowing soon. Yesterday we checked on a yard south of us in Turnerville which is at an elevation of 1550 and is always the first to start. There wasn't anything yet. The yards up by the border are always at least a week later.
Pure Sourwood honey has a unique chemistry. Some say it has a buttery or nutty taste. It's relatively low in dextrose so it has a smooth type of sweetness. It's hard to explain the taste of honey. I should have mentioned in the video that there are a few people that don't care for it.
Bob, I want to buy some of yours sourwood honey please. Will it be available on your website for you to ship to AL? If so do you have any idea when? I’ve already been watching your website.
