Hes a great mentor my bee operation has done a 360 thanks to Ian . Nice knowing exactly what direction your headed .. im not the only one people across north America i see their taking note
In some past videos you talked about how you've had a hard time speaking in public - well all your videos don't convey that. Watching your videos is very inspirational - I always finish and look for the next one - It may sound corny, or granular about your speaking style - About your ability to use descriptives - it really helps the 'average Joe beekeeper' *understand* - You have a superb skill (a gift) to convey the state of a hive - and terms like Caliber, Integrity, Excellence, Vigor, Encouraging, 'bit of a kick', Brilliant - These terms are inspirational - I look for this in my hives all the time. You bring passion to the art of beekeeping, in your videos. It's that passion that will turn my backyard beekeeper goal into a sideliner one. I'm getting there after 4 years, now with 8 hives, and helping other backyard beekeepers. This year, I want to split them all - but with a full time job and another sideline hobby as well - it's a tight curve to swing. Your videos are amazing - keep up the great work! - Someday, maybe (after my wife is less afraid of bees), I'll be able to turn this into a business.
Food for thought, you wake up the bees in the spring , in the shape you put them to bed in the fall. NEVER underestimate the importance's of your fall program.
Still in winter conditions here, but supposed to warm up this afternoon. Maybe I will be able to get my sugar bricks off and do a quick go through of my hives today :)
Hello, could you sometime in the future make us a video and show us the methods you use to prevent swarming as well as why do you place the frames from ten in the winter to nine in the summer?
Excellent suggestion. I've watched his videos on preparing for the honey flows. If I'm correct the brood box is knocked down to four frames of brood and the queen. He puts in comb to replace the frames given for splits. He then takes away the excess frames in nucs or splits. After that he places a second box on top for growth. When it's time for supers he pushes the queen down to the first box and places a queen excluder between the boxes. Next he begins to add supers. If I'm incorrect someone please correct me. But, I believe this is his method to swarm prevention. Easier than dealing with swarm cells later on. However, not every technique is perfect. So, it would be interesting to know what technique he uses when he sees swarm cells.
Started using that same inter cover on my nucs .. always had draft problems between lid and box not anymore .. probably wont need it on my hives but might try a few .. its cheap easy great idea .. these vids like only ones talking building nest targeting flows true wealth of information thank you Ian very helpful
Ian, great video! Please follow up in a few weeks with the merge I have had situations like that thinking the queen was not viable. Newspaper and excluder, a great way to give them strength! I look forward to using that in the future!
Just wondering what happens to the foraging bees from the Nucleus, who will presumably return to find the Nucleus gone from it's original place. Are they just sacrificed to the greater good?
I had noticed that also. This is the first video of his that I noticed five frames. They've been six frames. I've watched his videos with six frame nucs and this is when he has three six frame nucs next to each other with queen excluders. Then honey supers on top of those. They seem to fit two ten frame boxes quite well.
how you make queen ?and time ?here is fall, they used one yes queen and kill old queen (one yes queen ).fall queen in spring is best. i don't see you video kill you old queen, don't no you how make !
