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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: bailey on March 23, 2013, 10:37:12 pm
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Moot ,jp, Shawee, plan b , blanc , gov, and any others in this area.
Get your supers ready guys !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I checked one of my bee yards today that I had checked just 3 weeks ago.
All of the hives were easy to lift the back end with one hand 3 weeks ago.
When I tried the lift test today I was shocked!!!!!!!!!
Every one of them took both hands to lift and were very heavy!!!!!
These hives are 3 and 4 medium boxes tall and if I'm correct the top boxes should be full of capped honey.
I will be pulling honey and supering tomorrow in self defense !
So check the hives guys! You will be surprised :piano:
I have no idea what they are getting all the nectar from but I am convinced that were in a very heavy flow!!
Bailey.
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I put supers on about two weeks ago. I checked them Tuesday and the bees had two or three frames in the supers allready full of nectar. I think its mostly from blackberry because all the pollen coming in my hives is grey, which is blackberry pollen. I walked by the hives in my back yard today and had clouds of bees coming in and out. I was surprised that they had that much activity with this weather we was having today so they surly have a flow going on. Definitely more nectar this year than last year at this time. I don't think I got any honey last year until the Tallow bloomed.
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This is the earliest I have had honey in the past 6 years !
Hope this keeps up. Seems the plant life around here is quite happy with current conditions
Bailey
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I've been sitting and watching my girls bring in plenty... Just a rookie so not 100% sure what I'm seeing but lots of yellow, red, and greyish color pollen/nectar... Plan on peeking in on them tomorrow and see how they are doing...
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Same here Bailey and that hive we got from you was pretty light weeks ago and they other day I was picking some weight up. Was pretty surprised!
Blanc
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It is amazing what they can do in a few days :-D
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Big flow on right now blanc. I'm quite shocked and hoping it continues until the tallow flow
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God I wish I had bees. :)
ONE MORE WEEK.....
CAN"T STAND IT.
But VERY GLAD for you guys.
David
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Big flow on right now blanc. I'm quite shocked and hoping it continues until the tallow flow
I was just wondering if you are still seeing a flow right now bailey. My bees were packing in the nectar for about two weeks then they came to a screeching stop. I haven't seen any new nectar for the past two weeks and the swarms seem to have stopped also. I just wanted to know if this is happening just in my area are not. The last couple of years it seems that I only get honey from the tallow flow and thats it.
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Tallow blooms are out just not quite open here...y'all shouldn't be too far behind!
Scott
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Blanc.
Don't know about the flow but the swarms stopped a week before bud5
Bailey
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bailey ,the swarms are still going on here. up to 23.
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This is the earliest I have had honey in the past 6 years !
Hope this keeps up. Seems the plant life around here is quite happy with current conditions
Bailey
I just love hearing about this from you guys! No activity at all up here yet. I'm sitting tight and standing by and hoping it will be a good one.
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This is the earliest I have had honey in the past 6 years !
Hope this keeps up. Seems the plant life around here is quite happy with current conditions
Bailey
I just love hearing about this from you guys! No activity at all up here yet. I'm sitting tight and standing by and hoping it will be a good one.
2Sox - I'm about 2 hours north of you. My hives are bringing in pollen leg over foot so to speak. I'd check you hives as one of mine is very full of capped brood - which means that it's only a matter of time before there's a population explosion. This can spell disaster if there is no food around. I hay have to feed in a week or so.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that our season is underway albeit not as rigorously as the boys down south.
David