Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: BrentX on July 07, 2011, 11:11:06 pm
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There are supers on each hive alllllmooooosttt ready. Maybe a third of the honey is already capped. I will check again in ten days or so, but the harvest cant be far off now.
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Yeah. Honey harvest. My favorite time of year :pinkelephant:
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You might find these 10 days to be very long. Start reading War and Peace. :lau: :lau: :lau: :lau:
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I'm doing my first harvest tomorrow! Hoping for about 50 lbs from my 2 hives!!
Hope the girls got the message about my plans......
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If you ger the right conditions and you have a good population, they might suyrprise you and fill up fast. I got very pleasantly surprised when I found I had not taken enough supers out to give my hives more room! Go Team go!! I am waiting for my first honey crop since 1984. That one was about 38,000 pounds but I don't think we will do that with six five frame nucs that I split up to a dozen colonies.
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Checking on the bees revealed they have been ve ry busy. I took twice as many supers as I was expecting and there is lots of honey left in the hives. The boxes will go back on as the hives are crowded and a small flow is expected in the fall which is honey for the bees.
Happy beekeeper.:)