How to harvest - tips and tricks 🍯🐝
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
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I love the flow hive and its ingenious design, and I admire this guy and his presentation style, so clear and conscise.
I agree
Nice video and it is so cool seeing you alls way to keep bees. Observing the bees, watching the honey flow from the frames, being able to differentiate the types of honey due to your frame/hive design is amazing. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for watching, great that you have enjoyed this video. Stay tuned for much more. -Kieran
Another great video Cedar, thank you.
Great work!
Congratulations!
YAY! I love these Videos
Thanks Cedar, great video! (Germany)
You gotta be eating some honey while watching this
In Poland we have alcoholed beverages on tha base of honey. This has tardition longer than 1200 years
We can make Mead from fermented honey - it's delicious :) - Sam
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Great video Thank you 🎉
You are so welcome!
Have you ever thought about making a trip to a colder climate (Rocky Mountains) to provide some of your expertise in a colder climate?
I absolutely love watching these videos, so passionate about the bee’s, the honey 🍯 and the hives. It like everything has been thought of in the invention of these hives. Beautiful to watch 🍯 🐝 ❤️👍👍
We're in southern Florida, pretty much non-seasonal. Why are bees only purchasable in the early spring?
Hey Bill,
Thanks for your question.
Typically for most of places, Spring is the time of year the bees come out of hibernation and ready to expand.
But perhaps your local beekeeping community provide bees more time throughout the year if it's non-seasonal...
For this reason we can't emphasise enough the value of local beekeeping mentors/connecting with your local beekeeping club. You may find these yourself, or here are a couple of links to help too, our online directory of Flow affiliated beekeeping clubs and our online community forum, specifically the Connect With Locals section:
www.honeyflow.com/pages/bee-club-directory
forum.honeyflow.com/c/connect-with-locals/23
I hope this helps.
- Danika
I love bees🥰🥰🥰
🙏🙏from nepal , himalayan country
How does this go in winter in NSW ?
After the frame is empty the comb is sealed with wax caps. What is the procedure for allowing the bees to refill the comb?
Hey David,
Thanks for the question. After harvesting the bees notice the frames have been empty and begin chewing back the wax cappings, cleaning up and re-filling the frames. They're so clever!
- Danika
Awesome
Do you have to take them out every time you harvest to clean them. And do they all come with brood chambers. Can I use one as my first hive here in the uk
Hey Gaz,
No, lucky for all us Flow beekeeper, you don't! Once the frames have been emptied, the bees notice the frames have been emptied and go about chewing the wax off and refilling the frames.
And yes, we now have a UK warehouse and thus online store (uk.honeyflow.com) and Flow beekeepers throughout the UK already :)
Please email us at info@honeyflow.com with any further questions you might have! - Danika
I have a flow hive that I purchased second hand. The flow hives are dirty. How can we clean them without damaging it or causing an unhealthy environment for the bees?
Have a look here, support.honeyflow.com/do-i-need-to-clean-the-flow-frames/ -Kieran
I must have missed it but why did you put the key in the bottom slot and not the top slot?
Hey there :)
When harvesting you insert the key into the bottom slot, and then the top slot to close/reset the frames.
For more info see this page:
support.honeyflow.com/flow-hive-harvesting-checklist/
- Danika
Other than looking at every frame, how would you know if your queen has squeaked through the excluder?
Hey Bill,
You would be able to tell as brood comb is a bit darker than honey comb, or if you could even notice larvae hatching there in inspections, and also due to the cells size it is more likely that drones would be reared in the Flow Frames.
So this would have the bulbous cappings typical for drone brood.
It's rare but can happen! Let us know if we can further assist at all.
- Danika
@@FlowHive Got it. Thanks
What do you do if the honey in the super crystallizes
Hi, crystallising honey is a troublesome occurrence in all methods of harvesting. You can find that through warming the Flow Frame up you could successfully put the frame into the open position to then allow the bees to clean the honey back and restore it more liquid in available space, ensuring once this process has been completed the Flow Frame is reset to the closed position for the bees to rework on.
Warming it requires soaking in water no hotter than 70ºC/160ºF.
If it is preferred to remove completely, open and close repeatedly while the Flow Frames is soaking, and use a plastic bristle brush to scrape out further honey and wax. The bees can clean the rest once it has fully dried out of direct sunlight.
-Kieran
Great
How much is this flow hive in US dollars. If I need one what will it cost me to have it in kenya
If you are moving from suburb to suburb or state to state or city to country, how do you transport the bees and the hive safely without losing bees or creating problems with your hives integrity.
We have tried different methods of moving the hive, if you are moving the hive close to where it was originally located, we found that pushing mesh into the entrance at sundown when all the bees are home and cloth taping the base, boxes and roof firmly together. This will allow you to safely move it to a new location. Make sure to wear a bee suit during this as there are risks involved. Once the hive is in place, bang on the side of the brood box loudly with an open hand, then place a large leafy branch over the entrance. Remove the steel wool and the bees should reorientate in the morning.
If you are moving you hive a long distance you need to be careful your colony does not overheat. We suggest you contact experienced beekeepers in your area. We also suggest you do as much research as possible before moving your hive, and seek some more advice from other Flow beekeepers on our community forum - forum.honeyflow.com/
If you have any questions or require any further assistance please email info@honeyflow.com - Leah.
What size jars do you use in your videos
The jars are 380ml -Kieran
Does it kill the bees that have their heads down in the combs when you turn the key, it would be sad to kill the bees in doing so.
No it doesn’t
Such an enginious hive and the Super is amazing. Unfortunatly I am in Egypt and have no access to buy it. If possible could you guide me on how to make one. I might have to compromise on some of the parts. I am sure they won't be available hear. Or explain the theory of the design if this is no bother to you
Thanks a million for your valuable videos and advice. I am new to it but we have got a swarm off a tree and it is giving quite dark honey. I would like to develop it. Talking specially about the super and its structure
Hey there :)
Thanks for your interest in Flow.
Our Flow Frames are available separately in sets of 3, 4, 6 and 7. These are designed to be used with existing Langstroth deep hives and can be purchased with or without a super box.
Here is a link to our instructions on how to modify a Super box to fit the Flow Frames: support.honeyflow.com/modifying-a-langstroth-box-for-flow-frames/
If you would like to make a purchase, please email us at info@honeyflow.com with what you would like to order and we will give you a price and shipping quote.
Please let us know if you have any questions - Danika
I want to this product but I am now in India I like your full product I prepared small Honey Bee harvesting form my home I have to improve your product launch in India
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Good day, am in Southern Africa to be specific Zambia, Am a small scale farmer and I produce honey on a small level and want to expand. I would like to have your starter up kit products but don't know how to do it, pls help
I love it ... What will be the approximate quantity of flow hive in a months
Hi there, honey production will depend on colony strength, available forage and climate. When full each Flow Frame will yield approximately 3kgs of honey. There's more information here support.honeyflow.com/how-much-honey-comes-out-of-a-flow-hive-or-super/ - Sam
Instead of using sand paper to refinish the sealant, use 000. Steel wool. Scuff it up , wipe it with rag then spray with a can of cheap sealant. 5 minute job and last for good 2 years.
Hi Jose, thanks for your suggestion, we do try to use the most natural products available which is why we go for an oil like Linseed or Tung :) - Sam
Hello how to buy this and from where you are doing awesome
That's a lot of mead
At my school we got a 2 beehives and one of them is doing really well and one of them is seems like the queen is not laying any eggs what should I do for this.
Probable answer NO eggs = no queen so have a look for the queen. No queen = re-queen or give a frame of eggs from the other hive making sure the other queen is not on that frame or give the known queen to the egg-less hive and the hive with eggs will make a new queen. I think move the queen so she thinks she has swarmed.
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Can I turn my classic flow hive into a flow hive2
Hey Sophie,
Essentially you can by purchasing the Base kit with the pest tray and adjustable stand, and placing your Classic on top of it instead of its current base board.
If you're in the UK though, unfortunately our warehouse there is quite new and small and doesn't have these available at the moment.
Perhaps you could email us at info@honeyflow.com for further information troubleshooting this? We'd be happy to help you further.
- Danika
If I use 2 super and 1 brood box, does it mean that I'll get honey more than single super?
Wakie wakie 2 is more than 1 but only if there is enough flow to fill both!!!!!!
Just trying to harvest but the cells won’t crack open
Hey Samantha,
Thanks for your message. Hmmm - are you in a cold climate at the moment, or on a particular cold day?
Please email us at info@honeyflow.com with some more info about your situation (photos and videos can be helpful!) and we look forward to resolving this with you :) - Danika
Can there be honey too thick so it Doesnt Flow out of the Flow hive? What do you do then?
There can be Carlos, we do suggest if that's the case that you harvest more often. Check with local beekeepers about available forage and what that will mean for your honey - Sam
Please i need one , what si the price ?????
México city
Unfortunately we are currently unable to ship to Mexico - Sam
Can you wait until all the frames are full?
and harvest all the frames on the same day?
You can, but for your first harvest it is best to harvest one Flow Frame at a time to get a better understanding of the process and what to expect. Ensuring all Flow Frames are fully capped a full harvest is possible but keeping up with jars can be tricky and combining honey into one bucket will mean you are mixing honey varieties. You will find each Flow Frame contains honey from a different source. -Kieran
Is there any benefit to leavening a small plate of honey out during winter so that your bee always have something to eat
If you are in Australia it is illegal to open feed honey 😁
Don't do this as it is a risk, bees will be drawn to it and it can spread disease between colonies. As well as risking bees consuming honey that might make them sick. The best thing to do is put out water filled with pebbles poking out of the water, so they can land and have a drink. -Kieran
Hey bro I'm a couple days in on being a beekeeper now I saved a wild hive I took everything about 40-50 lbs of bees in their honey babies I bought thim a new house but these are wild animals so I'm just let him do their own thing I have the new house next toum I see thim go in and out of it a couple times but not a lot of them and I don't think they're moving in but they might like what I already have them in I have them in a like a big plastic pipe that's like about 4 ft tall and like all around the full diameter maybe like three maybe 3 and a half feet and that's what I put them in when I took them and I noticed a little decline in my bees I didn't water them for like a day or two cuz they're wild animals I didn't know they need to be watered and I'm thinking maybe that's it but they're they're doing still good now maybe if they're comfortable do they do they not swarm as much when there comfy I'm not sure I really love these guys it's my first time ever having babies I've always wanted to have bees I found the opportunity where I needed to save some the tree they were in fell down and they were going to be exterminated so I went there and suited up and I only got stung about 20 times I took everything methodical like layered it in order the way they had it I hope I got the queen and I hope I don't have nothing to worry about cuz I took everything so if I don't have the queen one of them knowing they're wild animals I'm know they're going to be able to handle it they're. Super mean ones fighting the wasps and everything and cuz I have wasps around but the WASP now like I don't see you oic1 wasps flying around that's it and yeah and usually like when I'm having a barbecue there be like 40 wasps flying around now there's like none flying around 6:35 at night I got about 50 bees flying around I can see in a little 50 bee swarm during the first two days of having hundreds of bees flying around though in swarms maybe thousands even so I'm scared I hope they're going to be all right I've been watering them now so there was a day maybe a day and a half that I didn't give thim water and I noticed a decline after that and I'm just really scared I noticed these B's love me now though it gets really hot where I live at so I got there pipe all insulated with like blankets and sheets over it and 3 on barelas and a blanket that kind of blocks the Sun and their new house right next to him if they want to move in they can they are wild animals and I don't want to move them twice and fear of that if I have the queen in there that I wanted to stay in there and I don't want to hurt her if she is and I don't wanna mess with the bees anymore they might like the new house better than the old there they might like the old house better than the new house that reason why I say old houses cuz I've had this pipe laying around for years I don't even know why I brought it home but now I do really really glad I brought that pipe home just random plastic pipe without it I wouldn't have been able to save these bees I had nothing else I could have put them in like you know I brought home for no reason you know what I mean I guess it was meant to be I'm not still in there honey or anyting I want them to make sure that they just flourish cuz they're so important and I love him so much and now if they do move in this new house with the little slots and all the honey Grabbers then I definitely will steal some money from him but right now they're not in a position I can take any money from them and the pipe there in his kind of like you know I'm not going to mess with them in there already got stung 20 times moving them here Devel hot Scotts Valley California just a random bum with like 50000 roommates now saving the world like I said I know how important these guys are I was woke up from a god-like conscience from a dead sleep and told to go and save them now otherwise they're going to be gone in the morning started about 7:30 at night and was out of there before 10 one bad thing to the whole thing is that I think there was some sabotage or something around this whole thing because after I left the the stump that the bees were in was caught on fire or something like that so it burned and now the cops gave me a ticket for it and so I left at 10 and this was 4 in the morning when they found some fire there and I really don't think I did it I think it was some type of jealousy going on being said I'm just some punk that they think with no experience and some other people with other experience with no initiative that's what it is and also I think they already paid the Exterminator some type of sabotage I'm thinking at least it's only a misdemeanor I'm going up against and to save thim I would have burned down the whole f****** building instead if that was part of it trust they are more important in the building hypothetical arsonry you might find a lot of typos and also no punctuations love Satoshi Nakamoto I can't use them anymore
I have question...how can u tell a raw honey from market products??or they haven gone through process machine.?
he told true thing, some of market product they harvest the uncapped honey it's take the honey is not clean & pure. Flow design is so excellent so that you can archive more targets i.e. not opening beehive, no touching honeycomb, no squeezing...
Do u have any Canadian customers. Southern Ontario to be more exact. The warmer part of Canada.
Hi Harry, we do and we are just about to launch our new Canadian website - stay tuned! - Sam
@@FlowHive will be waiting.
How do you boost the production of honey?
All the wax stays in the hive and the bees reuse it. Bees use about 7kg honey to make 1kg of wax, so this aspect of the Flow system can improve your hive’s rate of honey production. Please email us at info@honeyflow.com and we can answer all your questions - Leah.
Flow Hive bees don’t reuse wax. They take it out of the hive and dispose of it.
Hello, where can we buy this unique bee house?
You can purchase Flow Hives from our website, go.honeyflow.com. -Kieran
How do you buy one of these hives
go.honeyflow.com jump on over to our website for our full range of product. -Kieran
How could I hervest from India like this as you do...?
Hi Sujan, unfortunately we are not currently able to ship to India. For more information please email us at info@honeyflow.com - Sam
Can you have a entrance and exit from your flow frame
Hi there,
I'm not sure if I totally understand your question sorry, but the Flow frames only have one harvesting end. I hope this clarifies your question? - Danika
Instead of going through the broad box can the bees enter the flow frames directly
My bees refuse to go in to the honey section of the flow hive. Two hives , two years in a row. Is it because I use queen excluders? Or am I just a lousy beekeeper..
D May have you smeared some burr comb onto the flow frames?
I have not. How much should I use . And just smear it on some of the frames?
D May next time you do a brood inspection, just take what you get while doing maintenance and smear it onto the flow frames using the hive tool. Cedar has spoken on this in previous videos so if you search back, you could find that. He also mentioned some people have melted wax and painted it onto the flow frames. If your brood box is strong and doing well, they should want to move up to the super.
DAVIDx41
Thank you ! I’ll report back.
Email info@honeyflow.com with pictures of your set up, let us know how long the brood box has been established for and when you added the Flow Supers. Can you send through pictures from a recent inspection too? -Kieran
I currently live in Canada an in the near future moving to the Philippines, can I order from you and can you ship a queen if needed or should I order one from my local area in the Philippines
Hey Shawn,
Thanks for your question :) We do have a warehouse in Canada so we can ship to you there quite easily.
If to the Phillipines instead we can arrange this but it will likely be more considerably more expensive as we'd need to ship from Australia.
It's also important to source your bees and queens as locally as possible - your local beekeeping club is generally the best place to do this.
Especially given current postal delays we have heard very sad cases of shipped queens dying in transit, so best to avoid this as much as possible.
Please email us at info@honeyflow.com to arrange a quote for shipping to the Phillipines or any further questions you might have.
- Danika
sombody please temme that anyone of u is thinking harvesting hanuka honeyyyyy from this flow hive.
Hi there, do you mean Manuka Honey? - Sam
@@FlowHive hi... yesss.... Manuka 😂 sorry ma bad..
But u hav to get Manuka flower for that right? nd wat about white honey .. i wud really like to hear abt this from guys on the nxt segment..
16:11 he said that not supposed to bee there #puns
How to bye a flow hive 2
Hey Beckie,
All of our Flow products and prices are available from our online stores. For customers in Australia www.honeyflow.com.au, Europe eu.honeyflow.com/, Canada ca.honeyflow.com, UK uk.honeyflow.com or international www.honeyflow.com
Here you will find product information and pricing listed.
If your country is not on our shipping list and you would like to make a purchase, please email us at info@honeyflow.com with what you would like to order and we will give you a price and shipping quote.
Please let us know if you have any questions - Danika
I would like to get into beekeeping and I would like to start with a flow hive and I need as much information, how can you help me.
how to get a queen honey bee ?
You will need to search online for local beekeepers or a local supplier, speaking with clubs can help you get the contacts. There are queen breeders and bee breeders. Starting out you will need a whole colony of bees and the queen. Buying just the queen is for when you are requeening an existing colony. Search using terminology bee package or bee nuc. -Kieran
do you sell a beekeeping tool?
Hi there, the hive tool comes with our Bee Suits :) - Sam
I want this product i am in Saudi Arabia Riyath