Final thought about doing mason jar honey.
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- I videoed this before a few days before my last video about removing the honey supers. Sorry I’m just getting to posting this. #beekeeping #beehive #honey #hive #floridabeekeeping #bees #newbeekeeper #tips #honeysuper #beekeepinglife #beekeeping101
Thanks for the honest report. I tried it with two jars and it worked but it wasn't very nice looking.
It’s cool, but in the end it was a mess.
Does look cool.
It does, but watch my video about removing the honey supers and you’ll see the mess it made. It’s 1 video before this one. Thank you for your comment!!😄
I remember back in the '70's they used jars like this. They used alot less wax in the bottom and used it to adhere a small piece of the hove's comb as a guide. They' d build one nice straight comb. You did need to have the hive slightly honeybound.
I saw a pic on a forum that had a piece of comb glued with wax before. After I did mine I remembers that pic, but by that time I remembered, they already started building their comb.
Seems like it would be good for selling honeycomb jars after you topped them off with honey. That is the point.... nice job would sell well where I live. Would brob be better on top of a honey super last honey flow rather than in the spring to stop swarming?
I’m just glad I finally got it to work. I probably wouldn’t do it again unless I started going to farmers markets. I’m sure it would sell there good.
I’m putting them on top of a Flow Hive for home use - so that I don’t have to pack my jars etc.❣️
One day I may get a flow hive. How do you like it? How long have you had a flow hive?
I built the set-up, glued lid rings to holes, waxed the bottom of the jars but never had honey flow that I thought adequate to build comb in the jars. How did you get the bees out of the jars? Was there dead ones that had to be fished out?
No dead bees. I just shook a little, set it down, let them climb to the top and sook them again. Repeated that for about 15mins.
You're a rookie figure it out
Doesn’t hurt to ask questions. Everyone’s a rookie at one point.
Not a complete rookie. Been doing it 7 years just never used this technique. Get manners.@@Tarheelsrule
Should put a super under jars when jars where full.😊
You are right, that would have worked. I just wanted to try it. If I do it again I’ll do that. Thanks for the comment.
I am going to try this on a little resource nuc. It would just be a little distraction for them. For the honey supers, were they empty foundation or did those hives start with drawn comb? If they had drawn comb, it probably isn't an equal comparison.
All the honey supers started out with new sheets of wax foundation. If you are going to try the mason jar honey, try cutting a small piece of wax foundation and gluing it with wax on the bottom. I’m sure that would have helped mine better.
Thank you for your comment 😄
Thanks for the suggestion.
Another thing might be shorter jars. It will be fun to play with things that aren't production hives.
I bought the summerhawk 8frame Mason jar box and it has never worked. I placed on strong colonies and prewaxed bottom of jars with natural bees wax. All colonies swarm when I try to use it.
Oh wow, that’s not good! I didn’t know they make a premade box for it.
We used a hole saw on an inner cover and tried it on our strongest hive last year, but all they did was repurpose the beeswax!
@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 sounds like my luck
I am doing a Ross round super and a hogg half comb super, I split all of my hives and finally 2 of the 3 I split are queen right again just waiting on the most recent split queen to return from mating flight
Probably won't get much honey this season even though they are putting it back like crazy right now in Michigan
I’m wanting to do that next year, the rose round, and hogg half. I’ve never done them before.
Ceracell do Ross rounds frames , giving them a whirl this season
I plan on it, we’ll… next season. I’m going to compare Hoggs halfcomb with the Ross rounds.
We tried this last year with our strongest hive and they just repurposed the beeswax we'd put in the jar for them so we had empty jars!
We've gotten a few frames of cut comb honey from our bees just by giving them a frame with no foundation in it every now and then, one or two in a strong hive seems to be about right. We also made a rookie mistake with a swarm this year and left a feeder shim on and forgot the inner cover because we didn't want to bother them right after getting them into a the deep hive box and we wound up with them gluing the shim to the lid with propolis and making this beautiful honeycomb stuck to the lid that left only beespace between the lines of honeycomb, once we saw what they'd started, we let them finish, and we harvested it last weekend when it was capped. Delicious and pretty and probably will pay for that swarm's woodenware!
Lol just the smallest extra room and they build. You’re lucky they didn’t build and lay drone brood in it. That happened to me before, larvae everywhere when I opened the box.
@@BeeRexBeekeeper Two weeks before we harvested we noticed a few capped drone brood cells in one of the combs (the wonkiest looking one) but by the time they'd capped the honey the drones were long gone and everything was filled with honey!
Nice
They do close all the vent holes. 😂
Yes 🙄! I don’t get it, you want them to have ventilation, but they close it up. So my question is…… do you really need to give them extra ventilation? I do for all my hives but they always try and close the gaps.
Too small of a sample size I think. One hive out of 8, you're going to have a dud sometimes. Possible you just happened to try the jars on the wrong hive at the wrong time?
That hive wasn’t a dud for sure. It was more me trying to get them to build inside the jars. I tried a couple way didn’t work until I finally figured it out. I’m sure if I kept doing it I would perfect it but I lost interest in the idea.
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I remember back in the '70's they used jars like this. They used alot less wax in the bottom and used it to adhere a small piece of the hove's comb as a guide. They' d build one nice straight comb. You did need to have the hive slightly honeybound.
Nice! But I don’t think I’ll do it again
Thank you for you comment 😁