Well, here's irony for you. Our main honey crop is thyme 😂 it's the only area in New Zealand where thyme is the dominant plant because not a lot else can grow here, without irrigation. Most of NZ doesn't have a water problem, just our little pocket of it. hot Mediterranean climate in central Otago. Very cold ( for NZ anyway, about minus ten Celsius mid winter) winters, hot dry summers. Thyme honey is a dog for crystalizing, It's got flavor alright 😅 although I wouldn't think medicine flavored but it's strong. interestingly I've never noticed chalkbrood. I don't know if the natural thymol the bee's bring in has any effect on mite counts but I hope so😂
I planet thyme in the rocky ground here in the Mediterranean and it grows great. Bananas and pineapple too. This was impossible 15 years ago. Since l have a distillery too I make alot of different oils. Lavender, rosemary, some plants l don't know the English name and tymol. Some oils are very expensive because you need a full moonshine barrel to make a little bit of oil
@@researcherAmateur we can't grow bananas or pineapple but we do have a lot of thyme, and lavender does really well here too. People do mow the wild thyme to sell to oil extractors for making thymol and for package dry herbs👍👋
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 actually, I'm not sure. Ive been asked about setting up a apairy in a different district this year about a hour and a half drive away towards the east coast, which I've said yes too, so I'll be able to compare that coastal orchard apairy with my central Otago ones, and there's no thyme in that area, it's all coastal bush, bit of manuka and kanuka and farm clover. It'll be interesting to see if there's a difference, I think I might get a little chalkbrood because it's a cool damp climate there for most of the year except mid summer, coastal Otago is completely different to central Otago 👍😃
@@dcsblessedbees if they have space this time of year bees will first fill around the brood. Then the surplus goes above. At least carnies do it like that. That's why you'll see beekeepers with a deep and a medium sometimes rotate write now and put the medium under to give them time to bring honey up and make a nice nest for the winter connecting both boxes.. that's for cold climate where they're done with the flow
Action Chemistry, beekeeper chemistry is fun.😁Hey Harris I'm going to need more sugar buddy, how about you bring me a few of those. I have Money for fuel and Sugar, I know you are super busy but Hoping we can figure a day that would work. That is easier then the OAstrips, ya I try some of those for Fall to Winter if they work well for ya. I will be calling this evening.🤣
I used similar recipes but on pressed sawdust from a local tree. I never used coconut oil so I don't know about that. My worked very well, maybe a bit too good. I remember i was afraid to give John the recipe.. if you dose it wrong it makes them stop brood or even abscond. I had lavender oil in it and when I find oxalic-glycerin l kinda put the experiment on whayting.. and it's still on it. But I'll finish it one day
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 my area is too dry for chalk brood and similar stuff. I think I didn't see it 20 years. And being on an island.. the selection never stops. I have a lot of secluded small islands around where I can be sure 100% the drones are mine. I even did an AFB experiment one summer on one
I just did another batch and four cups soaked one and a half rolls of shop towels cut into quarters on the roll. Where did you hear about mixing oxalic and thymol not being a good idea? Some of this information can be hard to find, and some of it is just somebody's thoughts. I would be interested to see the research
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Bob Binnie reported this in last Sunday's YT video. There is a list of other things not to mix on the list. Check it out.
I just did another batch. I cut the roll of shop towels into quarters. I only got six of those quarters soaked with four cups, so a roll in a half of the blue towels. The one I saw done used regular paper towels and rung them out. I didn't do that
Go get them mites Harris!!!!
hope it works
I love the science projects😅
me too. wish I had more time to collect data
Harris let us know what your before and after mite washes came to. Thanks.
I will write a few of them down and keep track
Well, here's irony for you. Our main honey crop is thyme 😂 it's the only area in New Zealand where thyme is the dominant plant because not a lot else can grow here, without irrigation. Most of NZ doesn't have a water problem, just our little pocket of it. hot Mediterranean climate in central Otago. Very cold ( for NZ anyway, about minus ten Celsius mid winter) winters, hot dry summers. Thyme honey is a dog for crystalizing, It's got flavor alright 😅 although I wouldn't think medicine flavored but it's strong. interestingly I've never noticed chalkbrood. I don't know if the natural thymol the bee's bring in has any effect on mite counts but I hope so😂
I would think the nectar would taste different than the oil, dose it help with mites?
I planet thyme in the rocky ground here in the Mediterranean and it grows great. Bananas and pineapple too. This was impossible 15 years ago. Since l have a distillery too I make alot of different oils. Lavender, rosemary, some plants l don't know the English name and tymol. Some oils are very expensive because you need a full moonshine barrel to make a little bit of oil
@@researcherAmateur we can't grow bananas or pineapple but we do have a lot of thyme, and lavender does really well here too. People do mow the wild thyme to sell to oil extractors for making thymol and for package dry herbs👍👋
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 actually, I'm not sure. Ive been asked about setting up a apairy in a different district this year about a hour and a half drive away towards the east coast, which I've said yes too, so I'll be able to compare that coastal orchard apairy with my central Otago ones, and there's no thyme in that area, it's all coastal bush, bit of manuka and kanuka and farm clover. It'll be interesting to see if there's a difference, I think I might get a little chalkbrood because it's a cool damp climate there for most of the year except mid summer, coastal Otago is completely different to central Otago 👍😃
@@Manuherikiabeekeeping that should be fun to see what difference there is in the 2 locations
Checked all my Sols for honey yeasterday,😒no extra honey but good amounts of bees and brood.🥰A lot of Healthy Bees this Year.😁Blessed Days Harris...
Bees is what you were trying to grow this year, sounds like you're doing that. I know some honey would have been nice too
@@dcsblessedbees if they have space this time of year bees will first fill around the brood. Then the surplus goes above. At least carnies do it like that. That's why you'll see beekeepers with a deep and a medium sometimes rotate write now and put the medium under to give them time to bring honey up and make a nice nest for the winter connecting both boxes.. that's for cold climate where they're done with the flow
Action Chemistry, beekeeper chemistry is fun.😁Hey Harris I'm going to need more sugar buddy, how about you bring me a few of those. I have Money for fuel and Sugar, I know you are super busy but Hoping we can figure a day that would work. That is easier then the OAstrips, ya I try some of those for Fall to Winter if they work well for ya. I will be calling this evening.🤣
I can't get my work done, Don't know when I can break away
I used similar recipes but on pressed sawdust from a local tree. I never used coconut oil so I don't know about that. My worked very well, maybe a bit too good. I remember i was afraid to give John the recipe.. if you dose it wrong it makes them stop brood or even abscond. I had lavender oil in it and when I find oxalic-glycerin l kinda put the experiment on whayting.. and it's still on it. But I'll finish it one day
I hope it helps with the chalk brood too
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 my area is too dry for chalk brood and similar stuff. I think I didn't see it 20 years. And being on an island.. the selection never stops. I have a lot of secluded small islands around where I can be sure 100% the drones are mine. I even did an AFB experiment one summer on one
@@researcherAmateur You live on an island with other small islands and it's "dry"...
@@MinnesotaBeekeeper yes, it's DRY.. you finally got one right. Bravo
4 cups Coconut Oil and 1 teaspoon thyme oil for how many strips? FYI, I heard that you shouldn’t mix thyme with oxalic acid in the hive.
I just did another batch and four cups soaked one and a half rolls of shop towels cut into quarters on the roll. Where did you hear about mixing oxalic and thymol not being a good idea? Some of this information can be hard to find, and some of it is just somebody's thoughts. I would be interested to see the research
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Bob Binnie reported this in last Sunday's YT video. There is a list of other things not to mix on the list. Check it out.
@@russellkoopman3004 thanks I will be sure to watch it
How many towels did you use for 4 cups
I just did another batch. I cut the roll of shop towels into quarters. I only got six of those quarters soaked with four cups, so a roll in a half of the blue towels. The one I saw done used regular paper towels and rung them out. I didn't do that
Thanks for sharing Harris, hope you’re able to do a follow up video.
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 Thanks