You guys were right. (Again.)
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- I get so much information from you guys in the comments! I listen to all advice and try TONS of things you suggest. Today was another one of those times where the commenters were right!
I go into the double nuc resource hives, add some boxes, check for eggs, find some magic... and the MORE magic!
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Hi! I have always been watching your awesome videos from Japan!
How about naming one of the Queen empress Michiko?
Naming all the bee queens with real queens from around the world might be fun
No
Good idea!
Congrats you have 5 new hives/colonies and it only cost the price of two queens. And now I will say this, May you never have to buy bees again!
Thomas Gordon I can't wait to do more splits!
I stumbled onto this page about a year ago and haven't stopped watching. now I click straight away when I see a new video up. Have no idea about bees but you make it interesting and fun to watch. Happy things are working out for you.
Winifred Feeney same here
me 2
same here...
exactly same :D
YEP
I'm going alphabetical with my queens names: Abeegail, Beeatrice, Colbee. Next up Debbee.
Kelly Disque I approve!
This is everything
Way to go Little Nuc! I'm having a blast following along with you. We started beekeeping at the same time as you and I'm enjoying learning along side. Never under estimate the power of bee math!
Emily McBroom Thanks Emily! You called it!
Possibly name "her" queen Emily.
Nice Bee-Math Emily ^^
COWORKER (during lunch): What are you watching? ME: My favorite soap opera! :D
Thanks to vino farm's videos, I am now an expert at spotting queens.
Yo Adrian! Always nice when the bees are reading the same playbook as you! Great Job Jim!
I just watched your entire bee journey, I have to say I am so emotionally invested in your bees (especially Queen Balboa) 🐝
I’m so glad you are naming the new additions! Please also include “new package bees” those ladies are amazing and deserve a worthy monicker!!!
I found you 2 days ago, and between my husbands profile and mine we have watched all of your videos! We are so excited how your hives are doing. Our kids are excited to see how the hives are doing when you post again.
They are also kind of jealous that the boy drones get to just hang around and do nothing while the girl workers and queen do everything 😂 (5 and 7 year old boys who hate they have chores lol)
We are learning so much about bees and love that we have learned with you in a way- we have learned from your journey 💗
Wow! Just awesome! So much to learn from your videos, bear protection fence building, bee colony building, but most of all, just love learning about bee behavior.
I was wondering if the little new Nuc had hatched and we just hadn't seen her. So glad that turned out to be true congratulations.
Hey Jim ,we use the plastic rite cell frames as well.
A tip if you will please.
Melt some of your old comb and render it clean in a dish.
Let it set until it's like rock or getting that way like a crayon.
Then take a piece and vigorously rub it all over the new plastic foundation.
It will speed up the comb drawing and save the lil ladies tons of energy having to produce wax themselves to draw the frames out.
It makes me so happy in my heart every time you are gentle with your bees! I've watched other people that just set boxes down with bees on the edge or stuff like that. You treat yours like I know I'll treat mine if I get them this year. Thank you for being a shining example of gentle kind beekeeping!
Great video, great dance.. No shorts LOL.. glad you waited on the queens.. nice job
My walk away split is a week behind you. Last week we had 12 capped queen cells last weekend. Today as I was putting on sugar syrup, I heard Colbee my new Queen piping. I'm leaving them alone as much as I want to look for her. We are in the summer dearth with robbing going on. So glad to see yours are doing great. I'm copying your moves!
Yeah boy!!! I went to check my hives yesterday. The one not queen right previously had 5 queen cups. Yesterday not only were they all gone, I only saw “archeological” evidence of one. Couldn’t find a queen but we will see...
Wow, the bee yard is GROWING!! FAST!
I just want to say that I’m a stay at home mom who knows nothing about beekeeping, but I LOVE your videos. I found you when you first started out and have followed you ever since. It’s so neat to see the progress of all your splits!
Thank you for the kind words!
I was able to get a feral hive - it was very fragile but has apparently now made up for lost time. Now that I've wandered all over my comment, I will end with this - with our weather going from 75 degrees to low 40's and lower at night - it;s beyond frustrating......at the end of the day - it's all a crap shoot, isn't it? I've done a lot right, I've done a lot wrong - it's amazing I haven't killed my queen yet - your willingness to be honest and to share what has worked and has not worked allows me the ability to not be so hard on myself - thanks for the freedom to make mistakes, then forgive myself.
I am in the early stages of learning to be a beekeeper. Learning (reading and watching) and slowly buying equipment so that I can start my hives in 1st quarter 2019. Your videos are a great resource and I'm learning a lot. Both from your success AND your failures. I look forward to your new videos every week. Thanks for making them!
Remember... my videos are not "how-to" videos. They are documentaries. I've come a long way, but I'm still a beginner. I do appreciate the kind words, though!
Been following you for awhile now. I find your excitement and enthusiasm contagious. You can be proud of your accomplishments; you have worked hard to get these results! Just ordered a resource hive, they do look like a great idea...Magical ! Have a great 4th :-)
OMG i love how happy and humble you are
You have such a great personality and presence. Okay you need to make a bee jig and make it go viral. 🤣. Your videos make me happy and I don’t have bees LOL
I like the "look for the queen" exercise you made close to the camera, it's good for us new beekeepers.
Enjoy watching your videos. We started beekeeping the same time and have similar experiences. One suggestion for your frame holder. I to decided I do not like those. What I do upon a suggestion from my wife is use a nuc box. Place a lid upside down on the ground next to hive and put the box on that. It’s a great place to set your frames as you inspect.
Some names for what/who?
But congratulations for the mindblowing success with the new hives and the great success of splitting the big hives..especially the booming Balboa Hive.. :)
Nice timings! The title fit the other video for sure. You prevented a swarming. This year ur bees are looking very good.
Your enthusiasm is contagious, i'm so glad you did the jig, i was waiting for it! haha
I am having so much fun watching your bees grow. Love the resource hives.
Oh and I vote for queen Nefertiti , queen Cleopatra or queen Hapshepsut.
Names: Queen Balboa, the second or third or fourth of her name. Or maybe Creed? Name of some Tsar for the Russians and i don’t know the origin of the carniolan to be of help on those.
Changing the topic though. You mention orchards and vineyard and other growing endeavours on your farm. Since the arrival of your little charges any noticeable changes in the pollination that you could notice?
Keep up the good work though, lovely to see those ladies so busy.
Wow! Your yard is really building up. Great job.
Hi I'm a now Bees watcher on your channel I am learning from you about the bees because I am planning at some point having my own beehive!
Dude! I get so caught up in your enthusiasm. Love the jig. Congratulations and great wishes for continued success!
Mary Miller Thanks, Mary. It was very exciting. Wait til you see the next one!
Congratz on the expansion! Doing a great job.
Your balboas 2nd granddaughter is definitely still a virgin! Looking Good, I went from 1 hive to 7 this year past my 5 from last year(4 died). Only 2 had queens and the other 5 just had queens hatch and mate so my little nucs are about to start roaring!
*The flow is on! you wont need to feed really, they will just back fill the brood nest if there is no other drawn comb. If they had no resources in the hive feed imo, but if there is plenty of stores I would let them forage and get the more nutritious food.
Love your 5 frame set up... My next hives are going to be Resource Hives.
Warre, Warre/Langstroth Hybrid, Langstroth 8 frame, now 5 frame... lol. I'm a glutton for bee stuff.
Anyhow looking good
Shout out from the uk followed your channel from the beginning back in the beardless days lol this is my first message thanks for all the inspiring episodes I’m looking forward to many more
Mike
My friend!! Thank you for another entertaining video. I mimicked your happy dance (from last video and this one, haha) when you showed us the Queen in the little underestimated nuc! I am very excited for their progress.
I'm not sure why I'm cheering for them more than the rest but apparently I have a favorite.
(Some name suggestions for our little nuc friends:
The Troopers
Mini Three (Mini Me but 3rd gen Balboa)
Im also rooting for first generation Balboa to be named "the Kingdom"
Cheers again from Canada.
Congratulations. You're hooked solid now. Never buy bees again but might get a queen here and there to bring in genetic diversity.
YAY!!!! SO HAPPY EVERYTHING WORKED OUT
Got to love the energy every time I watch your videos. Plus, I learn something every time
All the way from Kenya
Paul
Thanks for the great job you do on all of your videos. Educational and entertaining👍
I know sweet nothing about bee keeping now I do know a little ilI have been watching your videos for about 3 weeks love them
I don't know squat about bees...I have a coworker that has colonies so they do come up in conversation. I know I have watched way too many Vino Farm vids when I am able to spot the queen before he shows us!...but there can't really be too many vids. Love your videos.
Love the uploads man. Subbed and strapped in for the ride
Congrats on the good news! Keep up the good work!!
Congrats. Always good to find that. I have 4 in a queen castle atm hoping they have hatched i cant see queens but the time is about right for them to be running but not mated
A dance for every mated queen in the nuke ? Hell that will become a dancing channel !
Nature is awesome... Good work Jim !
how about for one of the balboa splits you could call one Queen Ashita (Ah-Shee-Ta) this name is known for success and strength
How about naming one for success and one for strength?
Well done little nuks, I think you should name the bees after the colours of the boxes in flowers (bluebell, lavender, daffodil, evergreen)
Danzel I like the color idea. I made their corresponding full boxes the same color so when the move up, they'll be in the same color hive.
Fantastic News all around! Now that you have the equipment and knowhow, you should never have to buy bees again! (unless you wanted some rapid starts)
So great!! Got to love it
Making more bees is more fun than free honey. Although at some point next spring the overwintering colonies will attempt to split themselves (swarms). This fun will continue. As a new beek you, me and all new beeks must decide if you want bees or honey. You can split and split and split. 5 for 1 and the bees will do the work. Just bee 😜prepared with equipment next spring.
Now I feel like doing a happy jig! Such good news!!
I always love watching your videos first time seeing you do that jig made me laugh so hard! Keep up the great work; I find it funny that I'm terrified of bees yet I can watch videos like this
Yeah Buddy!! can't say enough good things.
Few thoughts for what they're worth. I like how those resource hives are setup with the shared wall. I was thinking that you could use a similar technique for winter. (putting the hives wall to wall & then insulating) i'm sure there are complications, but the group bundling/ heat sharing seems like it might be beneficial for you & your bees.
I like that you'll be naming the hives. I think having last names (balboa) is a really fun way to identify them and maintain continuity of genetic origin. Then you can add first names or designations the keep track of all the siblings. One thing that is also fun is to find a naming theme (think ninja turtles>renaissance painters) and have a bunch of names on standby so that they all fit the theme. maybe grape varietals, flower names/types something reminiscent of vino & farm??? You've already got some colors setup on the resource hives. you could use color as another naming structure & labeling scheme.
& maybe you can trim those frame hangers in half, cuz i'm seeing you only use them to hold 1 frame at a time and the rest of the hanger just gets in the way. It might benefit also from a little lip at the end and "tooth" to keep the frames from sliding off.
Cheers!!! you gonna try a flow this year? I know not about the honey, but with your success this year maybe worth seeing how they handle it.
Great ideas, as always, friend!
I was hoping to try another round of splits sometime in the next 1-2 weeks. If I can get a laying queen by early August, she will build up enough to fill a nuc before October. Then I can try my hand at overwintering nucs. I definitely want to stack the nucs together and insulate them as a single unit so they share heat.
I'm leaning toward naming by colors because I've painted the full hive boxes the same colors as the nucs they're in. So the yellow nuc will go into a yellow hive box, etc. And of course, I need to stick with the Italian names for the Italian bees and so on... We'll figure it out.
I will definitely be cutting those hive hangers. GREAT idea. I'll definitely grind a groove out so the frame ears don't slide off. I wish I had thought of that.
It's going to be to late for the flow box this year. I'm going to have a look at the big hive this weekend and see what they've done in the supers. It's been two weeks and whatever flow we had is over now. If I put the flow frames on now, they'll just sit there until August flow. ANd then there's the risk they don't even use them. OR, don't fill them up all the way. I'm really not broken up about it. I decided this year was about BUILDING the bee yard. Next year I'll try to set aside a few hives for production and get the flow box on first thing in spring.
I would put a 110 Vac setup to the yard B4 Winter. I live in a 9b Climate and don't have such problems. Then options to keep them heated in Winter with a 3 Watt heater is no problem. Some live in a Northern latitude. Much different than mine.
Michael Palmer winters his resource colonies in triple deep resource hives in upper Vermont by the Canadian border.
I went to Italy last week!!... and my top suggestion for a name is: Medici (pronounced Med-E-chee) - this was a very powerful and influential family in/near Florence that were into banking, patrons of the Renaissance, ruling whatever towns they could conquer... and even finagled to get 2 of their kids to be Popes! You could even hyphenate it with a color. "Medici-Green".
My second suggestion is: Bernini (pronounced Burr-nee-nee). Most influential artist in Rome in the Renaissance, and sculpted this BEE fountain in Rome!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontana_delle_Api
... "Bernini-Orange"!? :)
Congrats! Happy dance!
This is about the time you find your swarm trap is full with another hive
Great work Vino. We've seen ur failures and now we are seeing u become a Bee Master. Thanks for letting us watch it all. I have some suggestions for ur other hives but I'm going in another direction. Name them "Ginger Lynn, Amber Lynn, Jenna Jameson" in honor of the Queens from the screen. 😃
mrflapdaddy Ha ha. Haven't heard that idea before!
You think we should refer to all Balboa decedent hives Balboa Legacy hives? You have some good suggestions for specific names already.
Names for the new Italians = What about naming them after cities and landmarks of Italy?
Carniolan = The dark sisters, The Martells, I don’t know I can't think of any good ones right now.
Congrats for your success !!!!!
Glad it worked out after that discussion. These gals will surprise you repeatedly. I am again dealing with the same issue. The queen hatched, in fact there were two of them, I couldn't find either with numerous searches after a robbing issue that did wipe out another nuc where they killed the queen, I added 2 more queen cells 2 days from emergence and they chewed them out. I have looked 7-8 times since on different days and nothing anywhere. I just added a half drawn frame to them today that was loaded with eggs yet again, they have been queen-less other than the virgins that hatched and disappeared in 2 days for a over a month now. If they don't queen up I will give up and combine them with another nuc. I added a lot of nurse bees with the frame today to keep their numbers high even though after the robbing I added two capped frames to strengthen them. We finally got some rain so that relieved the early dearth... I may get them built up yet.
BTW, I want to enlist you for something. You are quite observant and there is this issue that is supposedly settled that is still being argued, simply this. Do bees ever move eggs? I have people that swear they do and experts like Bush that have studied and said they do not. I have seen some evidence in one colony I have that they might. I know each colony is different and some do things others never would. If you ever run across this as you are splitting and having issues keep this in mind.
I am following another bee keepers odd issues that may show that not only do they move them, they may actually steal them from another hive. I know that sounds off the wall nuts, but I have seen the oddest things with these gals. They are more than determined to survive as a colony and at this point I wouldn't put anything past certain colonies and or breeds.... Just something to watch for. I have found that a combined effort among many people can find surprising results that were never found in a study due to the diversity involved. :) We never stop learning if we keep our minds open.
Queen Bob has a nice ring to it.
Congratulations vino I'm impressed
Congratulations!!
Excellent job!!! Huge, humongous LIKE!!
great update thanks for sharing
Congrats on the new hives! As always great video. I think Anastasia would be a good name for one of the Russian daughters, Ana for short?
Awesome work mate!😄👍 if you're looking for names I like the idea of queens from around the world.
This channel is just so fun to watch. I'm now soo keen on trying this so I can do jigs of my own.
Great to see the progress you've made. Id you want suggestions on names, maybe start a strawpoll or something?
great quality video!! keep up the good work!!
Your jigs are my favorite. Never stop being you.
Great news!!! Let's see... for the new Balboa you have to go with Adrian!!! I like Natasha for a Russian... just a few suggestions, I'm sure you'll do great. Really happy to see your successes! Yaaay👏🐝🎉
Excellent work
Melt some wax and brush it on those new plastic foundations. Spray some sugar water on them too. It really encourages the ladies to draw out the comb.
Thanks !!
Rockette for one of the Balboa sisters. (fem.rocky plus they're rocking it!)
Maybe Saint Beetersberg for one of the russians. (gotta love bee puns)
Exciting times!!
Absolutely love your videos and the cinematography, and dancing jigs, too! What suit are you using? I know this probably, but I like the hat and want to be more like the Vino Farm Bee Guy!
Graham Davis All gear I use is linked in the description. Thanks!
Congrats, that went really well. 100% success rate, that' amazing.
I started this year in beekeeping, a few months after start watching your channel. bought 2 hives and captured other 2.
One of the bought ones isn't doing so well because of a defective queen, but the others are great.
It's been very interesting following your channel. It's been inspiring, and also curious how different beekeeping is there when compared to Portugal. Region and type of bees really make alot of difference in beekiping
Best regards and good luck
Love the TA-DA! Queen >> sound effect!
Would be educational for you to explain what a Nuke is?
and all other *insider* beekeeper terminology.
For example: please unpack what you call resource hive - why do you call it that?
Have you ever thought of trying to cultivate some solitary bees as well? They may not give you honey, but while honey bees have a 5% pollination rate solitary bees have a 95% rate that can increase your plant and fruit crop yield. If you decide to get some make sure to do a video on it!
Started the season with three hives...two of which were pretty strong, after a nasty (late) Winter.....and NOW look at you!! Very cool...nicely done! When I first started watching your channel, I can remember thinking, "What the hell is he doing??" ...but I am definitely NOT an expert, so I watched, hoping to learn....and learn, I have! :-) Yup, I realize that you don't consider yourself an expert, either, but you have obviously accumulated enough knowledge to have confidence in your experiments...and rightfully so!
I'm still voting for the Balboa offshoots to be named 'Marco' and 'Polo!' The other three?? The first thing that came to mind was 'Winkin,' 'Blinkin,' and 'Nod'....but I bet someone can do better. Nature is endlessly fascinating, isn't it?
Norm Jacques Thanks for the support, Norm. You are correct... endlessly fascinating!
Apiary is looking awesome man.
Woohoo!! I love the jigs! Congrats! You have quite the little apiary. What is the maximum amount of hives you are willing to have?
New naming convention for the Balboa line, keep incrementing on the alphabet e.g: Balboa -> Calcoa -> Daldoa -> Eloa -> Felfoa e.t.c
Look at all those chickens!
Your having a great season this year!!!!!! I'm not having much luck. My bees are just existing and not expanding... ???
I'm using the same waxed black foundation as you and they keep messing up most of the small amount they have drawn on them.
Oh and to top it all off, in my last inspection two days ago I couldn't find my queen but did find two new still open but occupied queen cells. ??? My queen was only 8 weeks old?
Yeeehhhaaaa congratulations mate absolutely crushing it
I love this channel..everything about it; videos are well done, your enthusiasm, all of it. Sorry if you’ve already answered this, but where do you get your wooden ware?
Patrick Snyder So far, Brushy Mountain and BetterBee. BetterBee is in NY and has the best prices these days but they add shipping. Being relatively close, shipping is usually cheaper than the other places that have "free shipping" but inflated prices on the products. I am very happy with both companies. I just go for the best deals when they come up.
Yeah, I had a set of those frame holders and I chucked them. Pretty useless. I have one with a support bar welded between the 2 sides now so it’s a lot more sturdy.
Gratz on all your new hives! Woot Balboa daughters doing great! You forgot to show the medium hive btw, how's that one doing?
Next video. Shot yesterday. Still need to edit. It's a doozy.
Congrats, my first walk away splits were a few days behind yours, 2 nucs = 2 laying workers. Queens never made it back from mating flight...
That just means I get to try again!
Congrats on your ladies!!!!
Drew White Aww. That sucks. Definitely try again! You'll get it.
Bummer. The shortest recovery time will be to shake those frames and let those bees go into other hives. And remove those boxes. It will take way to long to fix this in other ways. Those laying workers and building drone colony’s. The other hives will kill the laying workers and except the regular workers and nurse bees. I know it’s harsh but you can’t change the laying workers back into normalcy. Good luck. Love Bees!
KIS E. POOH it is sad, but I shook them yesterday. Will be doing anpther split soon. But I ordered a couple queens. I may try to do one walk away, just to see, but I will probably wait till next year.
Drew White if your splits were done at the same time as Jim's, how could you tell they went laying worker? You know that a newly mated queen often lays two or more eggs in a cell? It generally takes 4 weeks after going broodless for laying workers to develop. Good luck with your next round of splits.
I did not know that!
You could name the previous 5 frame nuc, now 10, after Emily Mcbroom? Maybe just Emily or something like that? Maybe do a poll on here and see what people what
Kayla Slavens...queen McBroom! Good idea haha
Mc boom would be cool
Amazing Video. This season seems to be wonderful for you.
I was also thinking how many hives you have now? hard to keep count with similar names
perhaps making in order? like
hive 1. Balboa hive (original)
hive 2. Russian hive right(original)
Hive 3. New Italians
Hive 4/Nuc 1. Balboa 2/ Balboa Violet
Hive 5/Nuc 2. italian 2/Italian Green
Hive 6./Nuc 3. Russian 2 Carniolan/ Russian Yellow
Hive 7./Nuc 4. Italian 3 Carniolan/ Italian Blue
Hive 8. Balboa 3 Autoqueen
I don't know, just a suggestion :)
have a nice week.
Ishan Khan I was thinking something like this but giving names going in alphabetical order (starting with b for balboa). But it would definitely be helpful for him to write the lineage on the screen when checking hives. And the colors help too for the colored hives- maybe he can color the rest too
“The Carniolan honey bee is native to Slovenia, southern Austria, and parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.”
Our First Lady is from Slovenia, so Melania, or Mrs. Trump.
Margaret of Austria was a queen who had two husbands who were both kings. Other Austrian queens: Empress Elisabeth, Empress Maria, Anne of Austria Queen of Poland.
The famous actresses of Hungarian birth were Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva Gabor
Nice to see your bees grow you made your self a beekeper, my dad is beekeper sice 30 years i grow up keping bees and its nice to see you made it so far. Sry for my Bad Englisch i am from Germany. Here are some names for your bees Carneo,Creed,herby,phoebe,buzz,honey and Biene its german for bee and a girlsname in Germany
Hey I noticed in your last video, on your fence posts you don't have post caps...I sell fences here in Maryland. Yes it's a real job lol.....it will keep the water from running down into your posts and damaging them...you can buy cheap plastic ones at Home Depot or on line for like a dollar a piece. The will last a lot longer ...love the videos btw !!
Good tip. Yes, this was suggested yesterday and I remembered that, too. Next time I'm at the hardware store...
Do you think the bees see you dancing and are all like: "Welp, there he goes dancing again, go Jim, go Jim, making honey, go Jim"? lol
It's my human waggle dance.