Beekeeping | Watch Your Moisture Content Before Harvesting Your Honey

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  • @Blackswan19874
    @Blackswan19874 Рік тому +2

    When we pull our honey and if it’s above 18.6 we stack the supers and run a fan facing downwards atop the stack of boxes and have the boxes stacked atop two 2x4’s and run a dehumidifier for 48-72 hours nonstop, this of course does not change the capped honey but will lower the uncapped honey 2 to 3 points works great !

  • @IhmHomeFarm
    @IhmHomeFarm Рік тому

    Always so helpful and entertaining, any time I have a virtual question! Thanks. David!

  • @citrumpet1
    @citrumpet1 3 роки тому

    Good to know. Thanks for putting out the resource information David.

  • @carambamboliyt
    @carambamboliyt 4 роки тому

    Thanks and interesting. Good help for all leveling up, for us all supplying customers with always better and better quality produced.

  • @juliesmith507
    @juliesmith507 6 місяців тому

    Great demonstration! Thanks

    • @beek
      @beek  6 місяців тому

      Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Please consider subscribing to my channel if you haven't yet. I don't want you to miss a single beekeeping video 😃

  • @theresachristian9087
    @theresachristian9087 3 роки тому

    Great video! Very informative. Checking our honey today.

  • @shlarry3184
    @shlarry3184 4 роки тому

    Completely random, but the information from your video just helped me figure out how to get my KNF osmotic sugar ferments shelf stable (FPJ/FFJ). Thank you.

  • @chattychica04
    @chattychica04 4 роки тому

    Thanks I really enjoyed this video. Super helpful!

    • @beek
      @beek  4 роки тому

      So glad!

  • @cookec
    @cookec 2 роки тому +2

    Be sure to calibrate the refractometer before use. I found out mine was one 1% off when I went to use it recently.

  • @mahmoodalabri1647
    @mahmoodalabri1647 3 роки тому

    Thanks for knowledgeable video, but in case if the moister of extracted honey is quiet high , how to bring it down and make ii more viscous.

    • @beek
      @beek  3 роки тому

      It is difficult. It is best to wait and harvest it once it is capped over. However, I have placed supers in a dry room with a de-humidifier and lowered the moisture level.

    • @mahmoodalabri1647
      @mahmoodalabri1647 3 роки тому

      @@beek 🌷

  • @martenapperloo1055
    @martenapperloo1055 3 роки тому

    What if you have waited a month and they still haven't capped it ,can I do something to reduce the moisture since were almost into September and I couldn't wait any longer

  • @daviddiviney5599
    @daviddiviney5599 4 роки тому

    Thanks for the information sir

    • @beek
      @beek  4 роки тому

      Any time

  • @boblemery1029
    @boblemery1029 4 роки тому

    I just enjoy the crap out of watching you keep it up and enjoy your coffee

  • @tomdamour4902
    @tomdamour4902 3 роки тому

    My bees have been slow to cap their honey. Is this a problem this late in the year (December)?

    • @beek
      @beek  3 роки тому

      Going to answer that in my next video!

  • @bryanehlers8842
    @bryanehlers8842 4 роки тому

    Good video! I just extracted my honey today and it was between 19 and 20 I was a little worried.

  • @TH-cl5be
    @TH-cl5be 2 роки тому

    my capped honey is 26% how is this so?

  • @halhurst4105
    @halhurst4105 4 роки тому

    Just what I needed to know. We just harvested four frames from a brood box that had too little room for brood, and we thought the honey was a bit thin. We ordered a refractometer and it tested out to be 17.5 and we were wondering if this was dry enough, and your comments reassured us that this was OK. Good thing- there doesn't seem to be an easy way to dry it post extraction, though I did come across someone who was blowing warm dry air across a room full of capped frames in supers to evaporate some of the water. Have you/ would you do this to save your harvest?
    Also good to watch your methods of handling a colony. Your slow motion technique was interesting and instructive.

    • @beek
      @beek  4 роки тому

      Glad it was helpful

  • @VENAL
    @VENAL 3 роки тому

    David,
    Shouldn't honey be bottled at below 17 % humidity?
    Over that it will ferment without any doubt.

    • @beek
      @beek  3 роки тому

      Going to answer that in my next video!

  • @brianbrent2717
    @brianbrent2717 Рік тому

    What do you do when your moisture content is very low? My honey crystalized within a week of extacting it.