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Title: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: Yarra_Valley on December 16, 2009, 03:22:57 am

Any thoughts? Anyone else have this before?

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: TwT on December 16, 2009, 06:24:12 am

do you have a picture of it to post???

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: SlickMick on December 16, 2009, 07:54:58 am

I can't imagine green honey

Pics please

Mick

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: philinacoma on December 16, 2009, 08:58:03 am

How does it taste?

Is it runny?

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: Scadsobees on December 16, 2009, 09:36:17 am

Them bees been eating blue moon icecream??  :-D

How green is it?  We get somewhat green-tinged honey, sometime for us it would be the linden tree.  Is yours green-tinged or full-out grinch-green?

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: doak on December 16, 2009, 10:04:17 am

Did your bees have access to butter/Lima beans? doak

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: Kathyp on December 16, 2009, 11:00:57 am

christmas honey!

how does it taste?

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: SlickMick on December 16, 2009, 05:24:16 pm

Quote from: kathyp on December 16, 2009, 11:00:57 am

christmas honey!

how does it taste?

A woman's perspective is always an important addition to any issue  :-D

Mick

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: deknow on December 16, 2009, 05:31:23 pm

we have purple loostrife (an invasive) that produces a greenish/blue honey.

deknow

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: mick on December 23, 2009, 02:43:05 am

I dunno, is the wax green perhaps or is it green once extracted? Only way it can be green honey is if it is contaminated with something. Plaintain has green pollen at certain stages but I dont think any plant we have here would make green honey.

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: SlickMick on December 23, 2009, 03:48:01 am

I have seen plants in Vic that have purple pollen that may turn the honey green.. ie the mixing of blue (blue and red) and golden (yellow and red)

But the truth is I have no clue

Mick

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: Phil-J on December 30, 2009, 06:59:39 am

YV,

Are you any closer in figuring out why your honey is green? This is intriguing!

PhilJ

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: hardwood on December 30, 2009, 05:49:11 pm

We have a green-tinged honey here in Florida from the Brazilian pepper.

Scott

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: westmar on January 03, 2010, 10:44:20 pm

hey
     mate they might be irish.

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: philinacoma on January 12, 2010, 08:45:23 am

 Irish, nah, they could be Martian!  :lol:

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: Yarra_Valley on January 14, 2010, 08:47:21 am

Hi, nah, haven't figured it out yet. I'll know when I ask the other beekeepers in the area. If not someone will know at the meeting in a couple of weeks. I like the idea of Irish honey though :P.

Chao,
James.

Title: Re: I have green honey! what is it?
Post by: mick on January 15, 2010, 02:49:13 am

No pics??