Why Aren't The Bees Building Comb / Plastic Foundation Issues FIXED

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A lot of beekeepers use plastic foundation in their bee hive frames. Sometimes it can be a challenge to get the honey bees to draw (build) comb on it, this is mainly due the coating of wax it has applied to the foundation. In this video, you will learn how to apply a coating of beeswax to the foundation for better acceptance. Afterwards your bees will be building comb like crazy.
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@StanGore-mk8ow 2 месяца назад

AMEN!!!! well said Jason!!

@downunderfulla6001 4 года назад

Kamon Reynolds, Tennessee, uses a small foam roller. Seems to work great. I bought a few to try myself one day. A great topic of conversation 🍻🍻

@matthewklump7586 2 года назад

This is also my go to method paired with a old slow cooker.

@brianashby1105 2 года назад

Didn’t understand why my bees were building comb pretty much everywhere, but on the plastic frames. I assumed they were good to go, but after watching your video I realized they definitely were not. Coated a bunch of frames and switched out/replaced any that I could. Thanks to your video, the bees are building perfectly on the newly added frames. Valuable tip. Thanks a lot.

@JCsBees 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful. In the future you can buy plastic foundation with 1,2 or even 3 coats of wax. The more the better. :) I suggest Premier foundation.

@carldaniels4827 4 года назад

I'm glad that you were using dark comb wax. makes a lot of sense to use with the scent of brood. excellent point that most bee keepers miss.

@danant5197 3 года назад

Thank you so much. I had this problem as a new beekeeper and you are the only one that made this video on waxing.

@pattimincher4201 7 лет назад

I use a 4 inch foam roll and it works great. I coat all of my frames

@AngelEats559 5 лет назад

Love your videos man , I do the same thing for my operation and we need lots of these done. A paint roller with a hot plate and a metal paint pan works super easy for us. Give it try and keep up the vids man 🤙

@janebiddick6161 7 лет назад

Wonderful way to insure a better hive for bees! Thanks for sharing!

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Glad to bee of help.

@randomdan2010 7 лет назад

Janezone in

@kencollins3565 7 лет назад

Good tips... I use a Turkey baster brush. Works fine.

@lintonmacnamara1469 7 лет назад

That's good stuff Jason. Been going to try the plastic foundation but was unsure about waxing them.thanks

@kerirandle8474 3 года назад

Wish you lived closer. I think we would be friends. Thanks for the video.

@JCsBees 3 года назад

Where about do you live?

@mikeswann2647 Год назад

I bought a small roller at Depot roll it on with that . heat the wax in an old turkey roaster from a garage sale works great it melts wax and you just roll it on frame after frame I even coat my traps with wax using tis method..

@JCsBees Год назад

Great tip!

@papasstuff6381 7 лет назад

As always thanks for the tips . I like the wax crayon ! I just started to pull a little honey to give the queen room to lay in , also a little checker bordering . My swarms that I cought this spring have FILLED 2 deeps / 8 frame boxes in each of 5 hives . Awesome year so far !!!

@papasstuff6381 7 лет назад

Sorry I forgot , yes some of the plastic frames are funky / wierdly drawn out .

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Glad to hear your providing the queen some laying room, not too many people know to do that. Then they wonder why they have small cluster going into winter. Sounds like your bees are doing well! Re-coating those plastic frames will make a huge difference in acceptance.

@SquirrelsForAll 7 лет назад

Jason, your videos are very helpful, thank you for your hard work and continued productions.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Thanks! It feels to to bee helpful.

@bradgoliphant 3 года назад

Great points to make. I don't believe in putting plastic in beehive, yet understand beekeepers that do that have hundreds of hive and make living at it. My issue with plastic foundation is that most all of them have cell sizes upwards to 6mm's in size, when natural honey comb, built by the bees themselves, range from 4.6mm, to 5.2. But I love that you made this video to show this important point. Thank you.

@robertbridges4065 2 года назад

Going into my 3rd year. I'm using mostly plastic frames. The girls have made some really weird comb on these frames. Now I know why. This is a very straight forward and to the point video. I know what I am going to be doing tomorrow. Today I'm getting my supplies ready. I like the wax 'crayon' trick. Thanks.

@JCsBees 2 года назад

Glad the video was helpful. Best of luck getting things ready for the season.

@martenapperloo1055 3 года назад

Thanks for the video, it's a old video that I just came across but it sure answers my question of why my bees wouldn't draw out this one frame that I had in my hive except to draw out some funky comb on it, I had it in their for a month and they wouldn't draw it out

@JCsBees 3 года назад

Not having enough wax is a huge problem but also make sure you push the frames tight together.

@dougbardsley1960 5 лет назад

Awesome video. I’m a newbee and my bees started drawing comb out and on one foundation it’s sporadic. Hope I can remedy this before they mess all the frames up.

@Impressiongamingcontent 6 лет назад

Thank you very much. I was just putting pieces of wax on the foundation hoping they would take but i love the acrylic brush idea. Ill try it!

@JCsBees 6 лет назад

Hope the brush helps!

@adrianoxenham362 5 лет назад

Great Video. Very well explained and demonstrated.

@michaelmueller8976 5 лет назад

Very useful and helpful. Thank you brother.

@jaredandrus101 7 лет назад

Thanks for the great advice!

@reneemoorefrost4871 7 лет назад

Great waxing tips.

@sethcook9549 11 месяцев назад

Great tip. I forgot to wax my plastic foundations this season and it shows. 10 empty frames. They haven't touched them at all. I swapped out a deep unwaxed box with a medium box that has wax left on them from last seasons harvest and just started feeding them as of today. Gonna check in a week and see how things are going. :)

@JCsBees 11 месяцев назад

Good luck!!

@TechHoundDad 2 года назад

New bee keeper and had the same problem, thanks!

@JCsBees 2 года назад

Glad it was helpful!

@lonnieperry8112 7 лет назад

thank YOU! good job. I love the Wax Crayon I will make some next wax melt.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

It's works well!

@johnnybstuddd4482 2 года назад

Great video Jason.

@JCsBees 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@GeorgeCMcRae 6 месяцев назад

Crayon method looks great.

@elliemcleod9777 7 лет назад

We learned a lot from this video. Thank you!

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Awesome! That's why I make these video.

@SparkieDog1 3 года назад

Try 4" length foam rollers!! Those are awesome for waxing the foundations!!

@mrwonk 6 месяцев назад

I like that wax crayon method. That looks to be the way to go (assuming it gets the bees to draw evenly).

@JCsBees 6 месяцев назад

It works very well. It's works best if you slightly warm the wax crayon.

@pathofthebee2873 6 лет назад

Jason, I love what you do, thanks for the many years of great videos. I included a link to this video in one of my own, I hope that is okay. Keep up the good work.

@JCsBees 6 лет назад

I am glad to hear you enjoy the videos, thanks! Feel free to share any of my videos.

@stansmith4054 5 лет назад

The 16 dislikes for this video were from Yellow Jacket keepers.

@1tsjaboisam973 4 года назад

Stan Smith you mean this demons exist

@alexayounginsong2641 Год назад

JC! you are a genius! Can you do the video on removing old comb on plastic foundation? Dip into the hot water? Steam it? then environmental hormone will come out from the plastic? How do you eliminate comb on plastic frame?

@MissMerc007 7 лет назад

That wax crayon was such a good idea!

@Guitar2Man1963 4 года назад

a 3" or 4" Paint roller works well too!!

@yonniyon-tusell5035 5 лет назад

Thank you Jason that was very helpful

@JCsBees 5 лет назад

Adding wax will make a huge difference.

@jamesbraun1264 7 лет назад

I use a 4" paint edging roller. It fits into my pans easily and one dip does one side of a frame. Good videos. Thanks for making them.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

I have yet to try a roller but it sounds worth the effort for sure. Thanks!

@Lynne77084 7 лет назад

I use a small paint roller also. It works FANTASTIC! I melt my wax in a mini crock pot and the roller fits in perfectly.

@georgegarcia5052 4 года назад

I loved the wax crayon! How clever! I’ve heard it said that brood frame should be replaced every couple of years. If the plastic brood frames don’t have decease, how do you take off the old brood wax? How do you prepare used frames in order to coat them with wax? Thanks again! Wow, the crayon ... sometimes the easiest solutions are the best!

@tomhall3172 6 лет назад

Great tip brother thank you

@Lsmith-ly2cm 10 месяцев назад

Use a small paint roller they work well evenly coating the wax on the foundation.

@luci75d76 2 года назад

I use a small roller paint tool. I wax the frames very fast on this way.

@mpedals 3 года назад

just love the wax crayon idea,,,,,,,

@garybrabant5505 5 лет назад

Great information and thank you for your service. Gary USN (Ret) 😎🐝🐝🐝

@williamtaylor4657 4 года назад

Thanks for the info. New keeper in Ohio and the bees aren’t touching the super with plastic foundation. I’ll try this out.

@timothygilbert8242 4 года назад

Thank you for the information that helps me out a whole lot thank you for the information

@tterry53 2 года назад

I laid the crayon out in the sun for a few minutes so that it got warm and soft before I tried to rub it on the plastic foundation. I think that it helped make it easier to put on.

@JCsBees 2 года назад

Good idea!!

@Digger927 7 лет назад

Another good vid, thanks Jason! I've tried both brushes, the foam brushes and the rollers and I prefer the acrylic brushes as well. Discovering that one can re-coat the frames and get the bees to take to them made a huge difference for me this year. I still see an occasional reject but no more than I've seen with regular wax foundation. Sometimes bees just want to flip you the bird, lol. If you catch a hive drawing weird comb frames, get it sorted out as quick as possible because it's a huge freaking mess and it can easily depress a colony's ability to build production numbers the way they need to. Fixing it can be a huge pain in the ass, especially when they have squirrely cross comb and have it full of brood already. Jason, do you have a method worked out to fix this sort of a problem???? I have some like that this year that I never sorted out and they lagged behind badly all season. I assume it makes the queens job much harder and inefficient. I think I should try adding a top brood chamber until the queen gets in there and then cut her off from the bottom with an excluder until the brood hatches and then remove the bad frames and cross comb plastic frames. This is what happened before I learned to re-coat the plastic frames.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Without recoating most people will give up on the plastic foundation thinking it's junk. Truth be known once it's drawn, it's the strongest foundation on the market. No extractor blowouts!I think your idea of moving the queen above the excluder is what I would do. It's by far the least amount of work on your part. I had someone give me a hive onetime just like you described. It was a cross comb mess. I did the excluder trick then let bees rob the honey before I cut out the cross comb to melt down.

@got2kittys Год назад

Buy the waxed, and then wax them like they weren't. That usually works.

@mrsweettater Год назад

I've had great success with wax coated, plastic frames! They don't like uncoated plastic or reused plastic. I use mine five years and switch them out with new wax coated frames. I've heard of people cleaning them up and recoating them but that's never worked for me. I just get new ones, which keeps me rotating new wax into my hives. Which is good because I am so tight fisted that I wouldn't toss the old wax out unless I had to.

@smeglips 3 года назад

Find an opportunistic crop, like Canola, and introduce new frames while they a breading on a honey flow. When u time it right, they will draw plastic without coating in wax. Another method is rotate old frames out of the brood and introduce new plastics and they will draw them as well, much slower process but if u stay in front of it you can draw a lot of frames in a season. The real art of beekeeping is Botany, entomology doesn’t produce the honey or the money.

@lanawuolukka4784 4 месяца назад

Wonderful video!

@JCsBees 4 месяца назад

Thank you very much!

@1wildwackywoman 4 года назад

I have several empty wooden super frames and a handful of deeps that need foundation. In the past these frames had wax and wire foundation. Overtime the wires rust and the wax breaks. I’m thinking of switching over to plastic foundation. What’s your experience with one versus the other? It would be awesome if you could do a video on replacing plastic foundation in existing wooden frames. Thanks again for your great videos!

@jasona522 3 года назад

Hello, men Lake mix a triple wax dept. Foundation which works the best out of all that I have tried. Far as putting wax back on frames try a roller.

@billkohlman4606 Месяц назад

A 4” foam roller brush works great. Try that.

@ryanedmonds2244 6 лет назад

Good info

@TheTnoutlaw 7 лет назад

rite cell is now offered with extra wax. when adding extra wax myself, I take a deep pot and fill it to about 10 inches of melted wax. dip in one side of the foundation, let it cool for a second and dip the other side. very fast this method.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Great! Thanks for sharing the info..

@costacheflorin6290 5 лет назад

Hello Sir, Pls let us see how you clean from wax in order to reuse one older plastic frame.

@osiris031 6 лет назад

I use Acorn frames and haven't had much of an issue at all. The only thing I don't like are the little channels in the sides that give perfect little hiding spots for SHB down here in Florida.

@JCsBees 6 лет назад

I have heard great things about Acorn but have yet to try it myself. As for SHB, they have never been a problem here in Ohio for me. I have only seen them once and that was only 2 beetles.

@karenwaitley9515 3 года назад

Cripes, needed this information ,a couple weeks ago. Could explain why my bees haven't been working the new frames.

@JCsBees 3 года назад

Sorry I was slow to share the video but I hope it was helpful going forward. I hope you will subscribe so you can stay up to date with my new releases.

@karenwaitley9515 3 года назад

@@JCsBees I am subscribed, I've watched alot of your older videos too. If they dont start working the new frames I'll pull them and add wax ,see if that helps. Thanks for all your awsome videos.

@BLachance75 7 лет назад

I always scrape off any wonky comb that they start building on plastic frames. I've found once they get it going its bee fine but if they start wonky comb they will keep going with it. I'm switching over to either using wax foundation or a wax starter strip.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Yes, I do the same. I guess I should have mentioned that in the video. Thanks for pointing that out.

@davehawley4827 7 лет назад

nice pattern

@benjamindejonge3624 2 года назад

Love from Ibiza spain

@beekeeper8474 Год назад

Every time my bees pull wonky comb i tell them I'm not mad, just disappointed.

@1wildwackywoman 4 года назад

Question: have you found it helpful to clip off corners of plastic sheets for a bee ‘pass through’ ?

@luci75d76 2 года назад

I wax coat my plastic frames always. I never have any problems u til now in the past 9 years. I use only 1/1 black plastic frames for brood chamber and 1/2 yellow for suppers ! I travel with bees so sometime In some bumpy roads or very hot days of summer I lost before hives during transportation and because over heating melting inside and fall apart. Worth plastic frames I also have less swarms now. No tendency to swarm

@betsydonato6817 2 года назад

Hello ! - Thanks for this, best wishes Merry Christmas ! - Happy Birthdates !

@mikeries8549 4 года назад

I'm about two years late but to do this fast get a 30 gallon barrel with top cut off. Boil water on turkey fryer under the barrel. Add ten pounds of wax, melt, then start dunking sheets of foundation. Have to go fast or they warp.

@beekeepyt5622 7 лет назад

Not me, I heard the rumours. I've got a plastic hive body with wooden frames set up. It's working out quite well.

@marsolek84 4 года назад

Thanks for this video, I have this exact problem. I will recoat the few frames that are in the boxes that haven't been touched yet. What should I do with frames that are like yours where the bees have built funky comb on them, leave them? Pull the comb off and have them re-start building on a fresh frame? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

@piercebeekeeping 3 месяца назад

Great video.

@JCsBees 3 месяца назад

Thanks!!

@randyk172 7 лет назад

Thanks for that information I figured that's what it was with some of mine after I researched. Now how would I go about replacing those I've got 8 frame medium boxes and just one of the boxes is like that I live in Virginia Beach thanks

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

I would scrape off the old wonky comb and repaint them. You may have to feed 1:1 to encourage them to draw it out.

@Dave-jc6ky 7 лет назад

I need to do this but am new to beekeeping this year and have no idea how much beeswax is needed to add additional wax to a thin factory coating of wax on medium frame plastic foundations. Either a per frame or per per 10 frame estimate of weight of wax required to add additional wax would be helpful. I see beeswax is often sold by 1 lb. blocks and I need an estimate of how much I may need to purchase for my medium honey supers in particular. Further I have only a small amount of burr comb I could melt down.

@Tonnsfabrication 7 лет назад

Iv'e switched to exclusively using Acorn frames this year after seeing a friend of mine commercial keeper with 800 hives do it. I've had very good luck with them as well .FYI Brushy Mountain is a supplier of Acorn frames, it doesn't say that on their site but their plastic frames are Acorn.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

I have heard they were a good product on Facebook but have yet to try them. I guess next year I will be the year. Thanks for sharing the information. Amazon is also carrying them as I listed some in the video description.

@Tonnsfabrication 7 лет назад

They are cheaper in bulk like most things in the bee world. A case of supers is 74 frames and deeps are 51 frames If i remember correctly? They are roughly $2.50 each , I think deeps where 5 cents more so about the same.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Good to know, thanks!

@primeonly27 6 лет назад

You can also buy Acorn foundation on Amazon.

@FloryJohann 6 лет назад

When I started with beekeeping last year, I had questions and Brushy Mountain would not answer my questions that I send them per e-mail. not only once ,but twice a week later I was sending a e-mail to get answer and service. Bad thing is that I live only about 25 minutes from them. They lost all my business last year and this year. I refuse to do business with them after that. I found another company that is 1 hour away and they responded 20 minutes after I was sending them the questions per e-mail. Guess who got and is getting my business.

@kevinriffey5159 4 года назад

Just wanna know what you think about leaving a block of wax just outside hive entrance for them to "rob" from

@beebob1279 6 лет назад

I used unwaxed foundation, waxed plastic foundation, and waxed foundation. If the hive isn't strong and there isn't a strong flow this will happen. I've had colonies do this to wax foundation. It's more a nuisance than anything else.

@clearymc 4 года назад

Any advice for cleaning off old dirty frames?

@1wildwackywoman 4 года назад

@Gord1812 2 года назад

Hey Jason. Did you ever find out if sumac in the smoker helped with mites?

@swrc78 6 лет назад

Great video. Do I need to cross wire my frames if I am using the same black plastic foundations you show in your video? Thanks!

@JCsBees 6 лет назад

No wire is needed with the plastic foundation. The wire is used with wax foundation to add strength.

@honeybguys5872 7 лет назад

I have always had good luck with Mann Lake rite cell plastic foundation. I have yet to have them draw any wonky comb or refuse to use it.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Good to know. Thanks for sharing the information.

@michellecahill4838 4 года назад

how early ahead of the season should you prepare your frames? i will be starting my first hive this spring and have the plastic foundations. have a package of bees arriving in april...when should i wax the foundations? is there a good time or does it not matter?

@matthewsibley3698 4 года назад

Your the best love ur vids

@darnbunny1 7 лет назад

Hi Jason, Please share your source for the beautiful NUC behind you in this video. Really enjoy and have learned a lot from your videos. TY

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

I got them just down the road from my place. Here is his website www.beebarons.com/ I coated them with Tung oil. They are Amish built nucs.

@darnbunny1 7 лет назад

Thank you, -K

@bossymodo 7 лет назад

Personally I don't use foundation at all but I think a better approach if you want to use plastic foundation is to melt wax on top of water and then dip the plastic foundation through the layer of wax into the water and pull it back out and you will have a nice even coating on the plastic.

@danielaviles1335 5 лет назад

bossymodo ummm... I think that’s exactly what he said

@Peter-od7op 3 года назад

How do you clean plastic frames with wood frame installed. Can u use a pressure washer

@kathyhathaway8823 3 года назад

The video was good info but I don’t like the plastic foundation . I have not tried them but just kind of old fashion I just like the real wax foundation. Thanks

@JCsBees 3 года назад

I understand, everyone has what they like and what works for them.

@Brandon-jw5cv 7 лет назад

IMHO, hard foam rollers are the best way to apply wax, especially to a lot of frames at once. I can knock out both sides in about 15-20 seconds.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Great tip! I will have to try one. Can you share a link to one of these rollers so I can see which one you talking about?

@jimallen1176 4 года назад

Check out Bob Binnie, on RU-vid. He uses a thin 4" paint roller & crockpot. I'm going to try it. I've been using a thick 4" paint roller. It's fast & works great. I've learned a lot from your videos Jason. Keep up the good work.

@bradgoliphant 3 года назад

I use small rollers. For me, nothing works as well

@OkieRob 7 лет назад

I have some of the acorn foundation that is supposed to be heavy coated. Honestly i don't see that big of difference between it and the rite cell. But i could of gotten taken to the cleaners , when i ordered the acorn foundation it was on back order. They said they could double coat the regular and send that. So i said as long as it is equal to the heavy coat that would be fine. Did i get what is supposed to be heavy coat? I can not say for sure. Kind of like the mass produced queens that are sold online. I've had virgin queens hatch out that were bigger that what they claim are mated.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Where did you order if from? Was it right from Acorn? I have honestly only heard good things about it but there could be a few issues I guess.

@OkieRob 7 лет назад

I ohio bee company i think.

@alexpaulson4597 6 лет назад

I've been reading (and watching) as much as I can, trying to prepare myself for getting some bees this coming spring. When it comes to frames and comb is where I seem to have the most confusion and discrepancy so I just have to ask what seems like it should be a very simple process... For hobby purposes, are plastic cell foundations used more for brood, and wax/wire on honey supers? I ask because right when I think I am supposed to extract honey from a (super) comb and SAVE that comb for next year, someone tells me to cut out the entire comb and have them draw a new one. Great channel, great videos and a thumbs up to each new one I watch!

@JCsBees 6 лет назад

So glad to hear your getting bees. Now let me go ahead and tell you....You can ask 10 beekeepers 1 question and get 11-12 different answers. This does not mean that they are all wrong or right, it simply means that they each have their own method of doing things. Over time you will be the same way. Now to answer your question.....Plastic foundation or plastic frames with plastic foundation can be used anywhere (brood box or supers) unless you plan to sell cut comb honey. Some people do like to make the bees start over each year and build new comb I am not one of them. If you don't use chemicals that can get into the comb then why make them start over. It saves them a lot of work to keep the super combs for the following years. I do suggest your replace it every few years though. Personally I like the plastic frame and foundation because it's so strong and durable but it does take re-coating wax to get the bees to draw out comb on them. I hope I cleared up the confusion and if you have more questions just ask.

@alexpaulson4597 6 лет назад

Thank you very much for the advice Jason! I am really excited to get started but a little nervous (and not about getting stung). In my preparation I may be reading too much and getting ahead of myself, or perhaps some things I have read over complicate things and it can feel discouraging at times. (Fear the swarm, fear the mites, fear the mite treatments, use this and don't use that) Until I found this video, I thought that plastic frames were more of a gimmick compared to the wax/wire foundation but from the sound of it, the wax coated plastic will work just fine. I am not planning on selling any honey, it's just for personal use and sharing with family. Thanks again and I'll keep watching and learning! Thumbs up!

@airwolf61970 6 лет назад

Alex Paulson JC is right. Keep in mind, most of all the wax, foundation, block or candle in America is contaminated with pesticides unless you buy it from beekeepers who don't treat they're bees. And even then from drifting from other beekeepers near by it might still have pesticides. Ultimately you have to find your own way into and around beekeeping. I am treatment free and foundationless. Because I don't want to have to keep up with what hive I treated. All my wax is clean as I can get. Good luck with your bees sir. Stay tuned to JC, he is a wealth of knowledge.😊

@mikeries8549 6 лет назад

The reason you get so many answers to any given question in the bee world is that much of the information we share with each other is anecdotal much like greg's post above. Very little funding to do actual quality scientific research so we're left with the anecdotal stuff like "john's bees are doing well and john does or doesn't...". When someone who has actually read and digested a scientific study and tries to share at a big bee association meeting it triggers chaos because it conflicts with the anecdotal stuff and we're back to arguing about what works for john. (there is no john, the names have been changed to protect the innocent/guilty)

@betsydonato6817 2 года назад

@@JCsBees I'm interested in ' Ground Bees ', and ' Honey Bees ', down on the Grain Belt area where Medicago Lucerne, better known as the ' Purple Medic ', is grown for feed. This special bee has to be burlapped around the integrated grass family crop perimeter ( stake about one yard out, and burlap one yard high ) such as corn, bamboo, or Sunflowers mainly. Their job is to keep the Honey Bees away from the Medicago, ( which is a dew point plant propagated at @ 30° gradient around fresh water lakes, much the same as Lavender, but uses half the loom ) because of the pistol legume part of the ( Sativum medic ) alfalfa, when harvested / tripped by a Honey Bee, knocks the bee out causing it to wander off and die. This highly medicinal plant along with the vocation of Vortec Turbine gutter and rain barrel

@jimkovac915 7 лет назад

Good plan, I got a mess of frames the bees have no interest in.

@NewEnglandgardening 7 лет назад

Do you mean two nuc boxes high or two nuc box colonies stacked on each other with a divider. I just installed a package of bees today and gave them some drawn out comb with some honey stores. I hope there is enough time for them to build up for the winter. I do have a couple of nuc boxes I can stack on top of each other.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Here in Ohio they need to be 2 nucs high (one colony). That gives them the food storage to make most of the winter and then I can feed sugar patties until nectar starts flowing. Pushing the nucs close together will allow them to keep each other warm. So make sure you do this. I would check with a local beekeeper and see when your bees should be ready for winter. I hope you have time, good luck!

@PopsShack 7 лет назад

You should check out Australian Honeybee here on RU-vid to see how they apply the wax coating to their plastic foundation.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

Let me guess....They boil the wax in some water and dip the foundation in it? Am I correct?

@PopsShack 7 лет назад

Yep, that's it.

@joehutton7501 3 месяца назад

I have plastic foundation which is 1/4 inch less than the 17" inside diameter of the frame. Is that a problem?

@WeAllFailXxX 3 года назад

Ours really don’t mind it

@dclamby 4 года назад

Just curious. Regarding the wax crayon or the paintbrush, which one is your go to method? I have a couple hundred frames to clean and rewax, and am wondering which is the best.

@JCsBees 4 года назад

My newest go to is a foam roller with hot wax. Works very well and fast!

@janetharner5620 2 года назад

That wax crayon is cool, where would be a good place to buy those?

@JCsBees 2 года назад

I am not sure they are sold anywhere, I make them. All you need is a toilet paper roll and some wax to fill the roll.

@janetharner5620 2 года назад

@@JCsBees thanks!!

@denniswood231 2 года назад

I use permadent foundation and the bees like it fine...people have to understand that it takes lots of energy and resources to draw honeycomb. If you have weak colonies it is going to be a problem and holds them back and they won't produce much honey if you put too much foundation on at once. I run as strong colonies as possible and I only put foundation on after the first pull during our main honey flow and only two frames per super on each side of the middle comb in a 9 frame super...at that time the bees are peaking in population and almost draw foundation overnight and it helps to keep them from swarming but also producing honey at maximum. capacity. I never put foundation on any colony before that first pull and never after the honey flow is over since bees don't want to draw comb in a dearth and by that time we are prepping our bees for winter and they are down to two brood chambers. There is no need for all this waxing if you have strong bees and put the foundation on in the peak of the honey flow.

@heavenscenthomestead4242 7 лет назад

I like that crayon idea. Could you do a video on how to make it? Does the tp roll hold the wax in when you pour it? Thanks for the great tip.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

It would make a nice winter time video so maybe I will make one on making the crayon. Yes, the tp roll does hold the wax but you have to put pressure downward on roll until wax starts to dry. Once then leave it there until completely cool before moving. I made mine on the inside of a coffee container lid that way if any does seep out the lid catches it. Glad you like it, thanks!

@Digger927 7 лет назад

You can pour a little hot wax on a small piece of cardboard and then place the TP roll on it so that it sticks down faster, seals the bottom and cools quicker, then fill the tube with the warm wax. More fool proof if you fill the bottom of the tube first and let it cool a bit and solidify then finish filling the rest of the tube. The slower fill will keep from re-melting your initial tube seal.

@heavenscenthomestead4242 7 лет назад

Thank You so much. I appreciate the reply.

@JCsBees 7 лет назад

+Brent Nice tip!