Honey Collection; a day in the life of a casual apiarist
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Follow the journey of honey collected from a hive, extracted from honeycomb, filtered and jarred while the Pernickety Polymath entertains you with a concise commentary. Original electronic music, "Bee Song" is debuted.
Love seeing this Randel!
The music is fab as well :)
Glad you're having a good time doing this. I hate to be a downer, and I'm sure I'm not the first to point out a few things you need to improve. Please don't take this badly - it's more for anyone who tunes in to figure how this needs to be done..
1 - your smoker isn't giving out any smoke. Happily for you, the bees seem to be super calm, so not a big problem. With regular bees though, you need to light the smoker first, before donning the bee suit so it has time to really get going. It'll be there when you really need it.
2. Most of the frames you select are uncapped and not-ready to be extracted. At this stage, they're simple nectar. It only becomes honey after the bees dry it out to 19% or less water content, when they cap it. Uncapped 'near-honey' has too high a water content and will ferment. 90% capped frames are usually OK. Better still, buy a cheap refractometer to check the water content. Most states specify a maximum water content level before honey can be sold.
3. Uncapping calls that aren't actually capped seems a waste of time. Also - the idea of uncapping into the extractor is a new one for me. I'm probably being too picky already, so if it works for you - go for it. Now the frames are drawn, put 9 equally spaced frames in each super - the bees will store much more honey in them,. Then you'll also end up with a lot more uncapping wax - too much to put through the filters.
4. Filling jars with a ladle? It's much, much easier and cleaner to fill from a bucket through a honey gate. No need to wash and dry everything.
Other than those few things. Happy beekeeping.
What a beeautiful vidio. I love all the buzzing in the bee real.
Thank you. I hope I didn't drone on too much...
Man that's a lot of jars
Cool music!
Great music!! Do you let the bees jam on the Chromas?
Ha! Thanks.