Setting up Flow Hive for honey harvest
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
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Cedar shares some harvesting tips, including how to set the correct slope on your Flow Hive. He also answers your beekeeping queries.
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00:00 - Checking if it’s ready to harvest
02:48 - Setting your levels
05:16 - Pest tray - small hive beetles
07:44 - Attaching shelf brackets
10:04 - Harvesting honey
13:05 - Oil in pest tray
19:30 - Neighbours & swarming
24:47 - Finding gentle bees & winter
30:33 - Super tips & queen excluder
34:10 - Aggressive swarm
36:33 - Candied honey
39:12 - Queen cells & finishing harvest
44:52 - Leftover honey in the hive - Розваги
the Flow Hive 2 looks beautiful. I have a FH1 - bought on Day 2 of the crowd funding
Very helpful video, we are getting our flow hive set up and will be getting bees soon. Thanks for all the tips and info!
Glad it was helpful! :) - Isobella.
What size are the jars you are using? I’m thinking 3kgs. Cheers.Peter.
Hey Peter, yes I believe Cedar is using 3L/kg jars here :) It's a good size because a full Flow frame holds about that amount (always good to have back up jars in case though!)
- Danika
I purchased a flow hive 4 weeks ago I finished putting it together and placed it facing north in a sunny location most of the day and shade in the afternoon so that its protected from hot summer afternoons. I have put a small amount of slum gum in the hive, a little on the entrance and a big clump of it on the ground at the front of my hive. It's the only option I have at the moment. Due to not being able to purchase a Nucleus or split with a queen because of the bee lockdown its the only option I have. Can anyone help me out and tell me if what I have done is the right thing? and how long could it take to attract a swarm into my brood box?
Hey there,
Thanks for the question - may I ask whereabouts you are located? If you are in the varroa emergency zone then I don't think it's advisable to be attracting a swarm at the moment either.
Stay up to date with the DPI and varroa here:
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/emergencies/biosecurity/current-situation/varroa-mite-emergency-response
Using swarm attractants is a much less guaranteed way to attract bees unfortunately... you may need to wait until it is safe again in your area to obtain bees from a supplier.
Let us know if we can help any further. - Danika
@@FlowHive Brewongle Bathurst. I've read the latest update on the DPI website and I'm in a blue zone.
It would be nice to see a video of how to clean the flow supper. For example in the climate I live (Finland) we would take the supper for the winter and just leave the brood boxes below. Anyway is it needed to take the flow hive out when winter even you have enough brood boxes?.
Does the flow frames need to be clean ? And how ? If so.
Great suggestion!
Cleaning is not necessarily needed under most circumstances. If a pest got to the Flow Frames while they were in storage then it would be a good idea, before adding them back to the hive. Cleaning involves soaking in water no hotter than 70ºC/160ºF opening and closing while submerged and leaving in the open position to flush out debris, then drying out of direct sunlight. You can leave a Flow Super on the hive in winter in some cases, but it depends, some areas you will remove the extra space. -Kieran support.honeyflow.com/wintering-your-flow-hive/
Bro you amazing , and you are crazy genius i mean setting a plastic honey combs :D and fooling the bees so they can fill each individual crystal clear glass combs my question what if extra excess build wax i know bees does the rest of work but still i love your revolutionary idea poor guys dont even realize where my honey go! bee's is such nobel creatures i mean no doubt but getting fooled by us :D
Hey there :) lovely to read of your enthusiasm for Flow! The bees don't usually build excess wax on the Flow frames - once harvested they remove the cappings and clean up the frame to begin re-using it.
Over time you might find a bit of a build up of wax and propolis and wish to clean the frames for the best functioning of them - you can read about how to do that here:
support.honeyflow.com/do-i-need-to-clean-the-flow-frames/
I hope this helps :) - Danika
@@FlowHive defintely sensei! my dad is a farmer he loves bees but he have no idea about this 1 day im a pop up with 1 of flow boxes make him lose his mind 😂🤣🤣😂 im saving money for it he doesnt know yet...