FlowHive: Our First Harvest!!!
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- This was our very first Flow Hive harvest!
It took the bees one full month (June) to fill the flow frames with honey.
It took about 2 hours to harvest all honey. On a 90 degree F day.
We believe our honey was flowing so fast and overflowing due to it being such a hot day. So, if you are harvesting when it is over 90 degrees definitely only break open 1/3 of the frame at a time, otherwise you should be good to break open the entire whole frame at once.
We yielded about 3 1/2 gallons of honey, weighed at 45 pounds (excluding containers) - Домашні улюбленці та дикі тварини
The folks complaining about you taking all the honey and not leaving any for the bees, don't understand how this works. That is what the other one or two boxes are for. You don't leave the flow super on during the winter. You all did a great job congrats. You don't get that kind of production without being great beekeepers
Thank you! It's nice to hear from someone who knows what's up :) we love our bees!!
Excellet, reading the comments I finally found a commenter with a brain. well done.
Yes. Absolutely Right!
@@HappyBearAcres the people that complain are hypocrite liberals from the cities that learn from Democrat programs like common core. I'm a farmer in northern Minnesota by the way.
Can you tell me how you start one of these? If this only for professionals? Because I am NOT lol. I know you buy the hive and it’s like 800$ but how do you get bees in it? Do you just set it up in ur yard pour honey on it and hope bees come? We r wanting to start a garden as well and bees are great for gardens? Where does a newbie start?
you can tell the bees were ready to get back to work but the cells were full of honey. They make you honey and you make them happy to get back to work. Beautiful cycle - wish people could work together like that!
I have not read all 928 comments, the ones I have read have missed one important point. It takes the bees far more energy to make wax than honey. By not having to rebuild comb such as with a top bar hive or rebuild much of it with a langstroth hive they can produce more honey in a flow hive over a given season. Any time there is change people bad mouth it. Time will tell if this works or not. If the plastic holds up, If the bees prosper.
Bees don't recycle the wax from the caps, so that wax is tossed. The flow box is not any better for the bees in that regard.
There is no way to test the moisture content in the honey frame until you're committed to eating it all. I saw no refractometer in the video therefore I assume there's a chance that once in the jars it could ferment. There are flaws in the flow hive and I only described one.
Im surprised the bees dont chew on the plastic. But this is a great invention. The price is way too much though and you have to assemble it. Ive seen video where screws were missing and the dove tails didn't line up.
Except that the bees clear out all of the old wax and re-cap when ready. How do you think they refill them if they are capped?lol
Mike Ries The bees evaporate the water from the honey naturally before it is ready , then capped
Nice to see how other beekeepers work :)
you were meant to put that white board at the bottom 2:25 , in the slot above it so the honey didn't drip out, and the bees could clean it back up
I watched the FlowHive creator's tutorial on it and thats what they said to do. I don't understand the workings of it
rhysmuir its so the bees have honey to feed on and collect and save for winter.
rhysmuir I was thinking the same because I came directly from that video and I personally think that they should learn how to properly use it even though they said they did a lot of research they clearly didn't do enough because of the fact they didn't put the board on the top notch and left it on the bottom
rhysmuir .. from bottom to top with the honey catcher board .. may want to drain b4 too long .. yup .. then put it back after while...
That's great, but what about the honey going all through the hive, causing all that clean up in the first place? Not liking that at all. Bees can drown from having puddles of honey in their hive.
If the Flow frames can't be made to not leak through the hive at all, then it's a very bad design.
The normal method of harvesting honey is gonna disturb them a lot less than making them clean their entire hive of all that honey that you've just spilled everywhere.
Still by far one of the best basic farming inventions; lovely harvest!
My grandma in Mexico has bees and my cousin harvests the honey. I personally don't like honey but I've seen how it's harvested traditionally and hundreds of bees are killed. I love that it looks like no bees were harmed.
You're supposed to move the bottom board up to the top slot before harvesting. Keeps the drips inside and the bees will collect the honey off the floor.
you should get some sort of tax break when you have a bee hive like this. We need these bees. If more people had these, we might be helping the bee population.
As long as people dont abuse it I am inclined to agree with you. Bees are doing well and have had no problems. Its a new product so there is plenty of skepticism with no experience to back it up.
That would mean more government intervention, which we don't need...
@@mycrazyfamilyid That's a ludicrous claim. People get tax breaks for many things. In fact, you can get an agriculture exemption on your property if you are a beekeeper. There are acreage minimums, but it's the same with cattle.
@@look4keith the government needs to mind its own beeswax
@@shotgunsam23 -- Do you have any evidence for that? Bees dying in a flow hive?
I just love to see the delicious harvest, thank you. Our Beekeepers are my heroes......
gold2black.
Wow that looks like at least 15 L honey from just one hive. Good job.! A efficiënt and easy must have for self sufficient people.
I know that the bees are happy, because we saving the bees and our planet, all of you inspired me!
I'd like to hear all your pros, cons, tips, tricks and lessons learned after you go through your first season. I am a traditional beekeeper, but this is very interesting, and I especially like the fact of not disturbing the bees. I hope you will follow up.
Your video is making it easier for the rest of us newbees! Amazing and fun to follow the many new beekeepers who are all learning together! And your patience with the people who haunt youtube with negative and ignorant comments is admirable! Thanks for posting!
I just got done watching another flow hive video, and the guy said to move that drop slot to the upper slot before extracting the honey... I really love the design of this flow hive, and it dose not harm the bees at all, and you can get honey every year which to me is just awesome...
Beautiful, well done video...Loved the dog Too! Thank you!
I enjoyed this vid. When I start my homestead, I will be investing in one for my green house. Thank you.
This is so awesome to watch, LOOK AT ALL THAT HONEY! Bees are amazing.
This is amazing!! I'll definitely be looking into this in the future when I finally have my own property!!
Wow... you guys are great. Love the video and I can't wait to buy my own hive.
My intuition was right on. The greatest invention in beekeeping ever
Was it worth 700 dollars for tho?
until you get hard honey and realize getting it out of plastic is impossible without destroying the honey (very little heat will ruin honey's beneficial properties, like barely over our body temp).
Thanks for sharing :) Getting some this spring. Here. We. Go!
Thanks for uploading I really enjoyed watching the whole process 😊❤
Somebody start a gofundme and get this poor girl a steady cam!
Sidenote these taps significantly reduce the bees workload by providing a ready made comb and immensely reduces their stress and bee deaths at harvest time. Some traditionalists complain about anything that's new but I consider the idea the best honey super one can have. It just makes it so much easier for the bees, the ease for the keeper is only a bonus and a selling point.
You guys are so blessed, I enjoyed every moment of that video! Good stuff! :-) 🐝🐝🐝 I rate this video three Bees! 👍🍯🍯🍯
This video was so neat! Really satisfying! I can't wait to start a flow hive and try to bring back more of an awareness of bees and what they do for us. Your setup looks clean, organized, and natural to the bees.
Way to go!
Long live our divine creatures - bees. Super hive, just class! Thank you Flow, prosperity and success to you. Thank you for the video beekeepers!
Awesome job. This makes me feel more confident about trying bee keeping
First time I heard of the frames overflowing aswell, good to know you should crack the frames 1/3 at a time at 5 minutes intervals ... also good to know each frame has a different taste ... great video.!
This is soooo awesome guys! It makes me want to do my own.
Thank you so much. I really have been wanting one of these. Nice to see someone doing it. 🐝💕
Extremely helpful info - thank you!
*Wonderful invention.* This will help nature to be more pollinated and we can enjoy the sweet honey :-)
I am happy they have found a productive hobby for their back yard !
epSos.de it doesn’t help pollinate.
Sure it does... encourages people to build hives. The more hives people build, means more pollination.
great video! We have a flow hive (here in Australia) and also had some honey leak down and through the hive. We found if you crack the frames in increments- it is not only easier to turn the handle- but if you wait 5 minutes between increments the flow is not so great- the tube doesn't fill entirely and less honey leaks. You could also place a few bits of wood under the front of the hive to increase the tilt towards the rear so the honey flows out faster. Also if you remove the coreflute bottom- and place a metal or plastic tray there you can catch the honey and put the tray in front of the hive for the bees to clean up once you are done. Happy Flow Hivnig!
Flow hive is junk...terrible investment!!!!
ah- another flow hive hater. Good for you hater. Hate on! My mum got two complete flow hives- we did so well in our first half season- I just bought two more last week. This year I plan to set between 5 and 10 hives with flow frames. Wish me luck with my crap junk investment Mr know it all hater!
good for you! I hope you do well with your honey. I'm not really an expert on bees, but I am every interested in how honey harvesting works, and how bees themselves function. I wish you the best of luck with your hives, I hope the honey turns out great! :)
personally i'd rather buy 2 - 3 producing hives than an empty flow hive that I then need to fill with bees
BeeFriendlyApiary why?
Thank you for the video. This is something I would love to have one day
Seen a few videos about flowhive over the years. Thoroughly enjoyed yours. Huge fan of flowhive.
oh, and awesome video! i am so wanting to do this...
This is an older video so I am going to assume that you learned from the few mistakes you made with your flowhive. The first being that you have to tip the hive back to extract your frames the second which is not your mistake but a glitch in the the design of the flow hive is that the very first harvest will result in some honey loss through the hive. As the bees build up and propalyze the flow frames this becomes a non issue with all subsequent harvests. Great video and fantastic harvest.
Definitely a great idea to have two deeps.....great work guys!
You just sold me on the flow hive. Thanks for a great video!
this makes me wanna try bee keeping
@@LawrenceReitan -- Beekeeping isn't rocket science. There are intricacies, sure, but if you have a mentor and take the advice you're given, it's pretty easy to keep healthy bees.
Me too
@@Makermook are u a bee keeper then? I am interested in learning
It’s a lot of fun, but don’t use a flow hive. They don’t work as advertised and many people have tons of issues that nobody ever mentions. These paid UA-camrs don’t give you the entire story.
@@Makermook amen on getting a good mentor. Our local bee club has a mentorship program for new beekeepers. I don’t know one master beekeeper who would ever recommend a flow hive. They don’t work as advertised and the owners are con-artists.
I was just curious as to how many harvests you can expect this season, when should you do your last harvest and how do you know how much honey to leave unharvested for the winter? Also, would you mind telling me which state you are in? Thanks!
Thank you for the video. I am just now looking into the honey process and regardless of the negative comments I really enjoyed and appreciate you taking the time to show me a little something about the process. Thanks again. Great job!!!
I like it...it was interesting and fun!!!
It's a learning process. They are doing no harm. This is like a fun hobby for most but a lifestyle for many.
it's fantastic...
I like honey so much
excellent job! that was beautiful! keep up the good work
thank you for posting this its fascinating!!!
This video makes me so happy I can't even tell you. I would like to try beekeeping in the future and you both make it look so personally rewarding. Thank you for sharing.
3:50 that one bees 🐝 like “what’s going on back here?”
4:30 a bees supervising you two 😂
Fresh and natural.
Amazing your video Mis..
Indonesia watching...
Thanks for the video!
Man you gotta love You Tube.I've never seen or heard of "Flow hive" before. So cool!
It really is a cool invention, so much easier on the bees!
I want my own bees; so I can have my own army and take over the world!
Wow I’m speechless great job y’all 🍯
wow. just WOW. congratulations to you!!!
...you were supposed to take the bottom floor board and place it into the top slot prior to opening the honey flow...that would have kept the honey inside the hive so the bees could lick it back up...
@ResidentEvil302cuba rican215
You are right.
That was totally awesome, you guys rock. My two favorite parts were when he says he's going to try opening part "like they suggest", and the bee rescue. Did she survive? Thanks for helping to dispel the naysayers.
Awesome , thanks 4 showing to us!!
I was thinking of buying a flow hive and found this video very helpful thank you
What I'd like to know is...how do the bees know that you drained those frames? If they have them all capped with wax, what tells them they need to refill them again?
natural instinct
+ROMEYYOUROCK I envision them peeking under the wax caps and finding all the cells empty, then standing around scratching their heads, shrugging their shoulders, trying to figure out where all that honey went.
Jeffro Doe that too
When you turn the key mechanism to start the flow, the cells split open so there will be a split in the wax cappings and when they go to repair it they will be able to see that it's empty and needs to be filled back up again.
In other of videos of people harvesting with this system they watch the bees a bit more and somehow all the bees near that frame instantly know the honey is vanishing and immediately start working to remove the caps.
2:31 Your tapered shim appears to be installed backwards, sloping the hive to the front. The tubes overflowed toward the front landing board.
As a beekeeper thanks for posting. I've heard about this product for years it's nice to see it. Hat off to you for trying and posting it. Screw the other idiot comments, tell them to open a hive end of summer and commune with the bees (and get the living daylights stung out of you). I love our bees but they are the meanest SOB's on the planet in fall when you take excess honey away from them. Good job.
I am impressed!! Thanks for buying that and filming that, you are the first that has told me about why it overflowed, quite impressive. one guy said his did the first time, but he didn't seem to know why it didn't the next, he thought the bees sealed it up at the bottom, but I like opening a few and there by not letting it overflow.
Tilting the hive a couple of degrees will solve the overflow problem.
There seems to be two schools of thought on these flow hives. Those who love them and those who hate them. No in between.
Zoes Dada it’s like Vegemite “ you either love it or hate it” 😀
From those that have them, seems to be a large large love for them. For those who don't have them, you can safely discount those people's opinions
That is so cool you guys, you must be so excited, and never mind any negative comments you did GREAT!
Very, very cool ! Thx so much !
Id like everyone to know that I see the amount of feedback I'm getting here warrants a response video. I will be posting a video in the next couple days with answers, and unfortunately defense as well, as I'm noticing a lot of aggressive ignorant comments. I would have posted sooner but I moved so I've been busy, but I'm glad I waited because I get new questions and criticisms daily!
Well when you get a negative comment put an English muffin in the toaster then put some honey on it and enjoy! Soon you will be looking forward to people getting upset about nothing.
+Theodore Sloat +Theodore Sloat I guess I just wish people had more sense and weren't so unnecessarily aggressive and negative. I know I know "can't fix stupid" but you CAN fix ignorance :) so I'm happy to enlighten those who are just that.
Also...if I ate an English muffin every time I had a negative comment id lose my girlish figure lol
Hmm...for safety reasons then you better send the honey to me for you know "disposal"
Some people get caught up in "hating" just because they think they should go against something they don't understand. Mark Twain quote "a man with a new idea is a fool, until that idea succeeds"... (';') stay awesome! Let the haters hate.
I'd see the negative comments or criticisms as a positive for bees... sadly there are going to be people who buy a flowhive and mistreat their bees due to ignorance and lack of education, and it takes videos like this and clarifications from yourself to demonstrate the right way to do things!
You forgot to move the board up to the top space! Watch the video about harvesting from the people who make it
Joli Kelly they also forgot to make sure it was tilting forward as well
That was like the first Step to do from the FlowHive guys :X
@@sbdonlon It needs to tilt back not forward.
@@MikesManCave where does one get all these instructions from, are they in the box from.the manufacturers,?
@@maranathaafrica Yes they are and there is plenty of videos on youtube that will show you how to do it.
Great job!!
I like your video, we all live and learn, that's why im watching = to learn, some day i hope to have bee's.
5:58 I see a black bear come out the woods looking for the honey 😆
Luis Torres that’s there dog
@@non-stickfryingpan6242 wooosh
the day the bees gonna find out where all the honey goes... :>
i loved watching the dog in the background with the music...the honey was mesmerizing too
omg that looked soo good i just want to eat it all
this is what the young upstarts of today's so called schooling system need to get em interested in real life values. and how they get the nice honey in their stores. ie., lots of good hard work. --------wonderful video and so inspiring to watch
dax true. the world has enough theorist. what we need is some practicist. u probably cany make yer own wretched bed
I love this honey system, because any lazy person can do it. Once the bees are in it is hands free other than collecting honey. Plus you don't have 1/10th the work to collect it, like cutting the cap and draining and spinning and filtering and all the cleaning and extra sterilization to go through. joseph kevnu this is lazy people beekeeping.
Youre in for a rude awakening if you think that's all there is to it. What will you do if something happens to your queen, they decide to swarm, you have an infestation of hive beetles, etc., etc.?
why would you say lazy people ?
I work 7 days a week i don't have time to be lazy.
because of this brilliant design it makes the time i have free to collect honey so much more easy.
I got bees to improve my market garden pollination.
Don't assume this style of bee keeping is for lazy people.
Bee happy that people embrace new technology.
Garlic Guy Okay it is for lazy people, people afraid to touch or work around bees, and people that don't have enough time to properly maintain a hive. Is that better now?
Cool Vid----thanks 4 Sharing-
I've never seen this set up before. Very sweet!
This is cool and all, I'm not a bee expert, but aren't you supposed to leave some honey in the hive for the bees?
We have another super below the flow hive with honey in it. We left plenty.
depends if you go the naturaul way you just take the ehole super of and away from the hive so they just stay in the brood
Sophie Johnson
Shotgunsam 23 I actually hear about that a lot, bees cap their honey from the outside in, so what your getting from a flow hive can actually go bad, unlike real honey.
Thank you for the video, I enjoyed it.
I find this oddly satisfying, no clue why.
Amazing!!!
Very cool!
Wow how long does it take to accumulate that amount of honey?
read the
description ya fuck
be nice
@Happybearacres can you answer the question about time?
Now you can start your mead production :)
goagăl minus +1
Lovely!
Thanks for posting this it is great. I have,been watching this product,since their kickstarter entry. Wanted to see someone use it in real world/real time. This is perfect! Looks like I will be ordering in the next,few months. Thanks again.
I had a great harvest from my Flows this year. Since you're getting one, you might be interested in some ideas: ua-cam.com/video/lVkyC-i1K0k/v-deo.html
Hi Happy Bear! Super video! Just a quick question, how often can you harvest the honey? What is the rough time fram. Thanks
i think two to three times a season.
This is so cool! Just starting to look into having bees. When should we order bees and get things set up?
Hazzah! Great job and video guys.
thank you for sharing the cool video and dont let negative people drag ya down your doing great.
Your hive is too crowded, it needs another honey super or else your bees will take off. I already have 5 honey supers on my strongest colonies.
Yeah
With Flow, you continuously harvest honey through the honey season, the bees continue to have new places to add honey- so it's never full. As long as you keep harvesting.
still doesnt stop your bees from swarming.
the comment was saying about the population of the hive, not the honey storage :P
+Daltonownzyoulol we have the flow. we harvested twice this summer before replacing with regular frames so the bees could get ready to winter. we never had a swarm. 2 deeps,one flow and then 2 harvests of just the flow. then replaced with 10 frames. no swarm.
@happybearacres thank you for your explanation... when you accomplish your second review, could you explain anything else you've figured out. I noticed several comments included tips about bottom boards, incremental opening, etc. I'm new and trying to get all the info before buying... and it appears that all beekeeping care and expertise is still viable. So, is the setup as follows: two bottom langstroth boxes; one for the Queen and babies, and one for their honey stores with the Flowhive on top and the benefit being the ease, safety, and visibility of harvesting surplus honey. (@fredrickdunn also...) Thank you happybearacres and Fredrick-for your helpful reviews.
Gratz on the harvest
Thanks guys loved the video
do the bees try to sting you when collecting the honey?
Sarah walshaw no, the reason the flow hive was made we so you don’t disturb the bees.
god damn it... this video makes me so jealous... I FREAKING LOVE HONEY
Super cool video! Looks like that flow hive works pretty good!
pretty awesome!
Fascinating! how long did it take for the bees to fill all the frames ?
The description box said a month.
@@alissameade-fields9615 omg, thats pretty quick