Ha Happy New Year your bees are doing good. I enjoyed your video. I wish my bees looked that good. 20"s just knocks the socks off of mine. I have 4 dead at this point more to come, Cant wait till spring here. I do not pollinate I just want honey. Hope u continue to do good. Have a blessed week
Great video.. pollen wow. What part of Florida do you live in? I was putting out pollen patties today. Very little natural pollen. Baton rouge area. Thanks.
I haven't heard anything from my broker yet. Last year they shipped out at the beginning of February but sometimes they've left third week of January or so.
When you have old foundation that you've scraped clean, do you prewax them before you put them back into the colonies or do you just throw them in with nothing on the plastic? Merry Christmas to you snd your family
@@jasonseaward8506 The bees would draw all the frames a lot better if I did put wax on them but I usually don't. Every year I say I will but I never seem to find the time. They will draw it without a fresh coat of wax on it but not as much and they have a higher tendency to draw it badly in my opinion.
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog The corn syrup I buy comes with 23% water added to it from the factory but even with me adding extra it's still incredibly thick. It seems the more I dilute it the better the impact on the bees growth (or at least their ability to eat it quickly).
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog No I don't because I only add water to the totes that I'm going to be using that day. I haven't had any problems on the solid corn syrup fermenting only crystallizing.
Since your goal is to stimulate growth, I don't know why you don't go to 1 to 2. I saw a video that compared several ratios of sugar syrup mixes to see which one the foraging bees preferred. They preferred 1 to 4. I think nectar is about 1:6.
@@rtxhoneybees I haven't seen that video but I'll have to check it out! Thin syrup is a new thing for me so I'm slowly trying out different concentrations.
Ha Happy New Year your bees are doing good. I enjoyed your video. I wish my bees looked that good. 20"s just knocks the socks off of mine. I have 4 dead at this point more to come, Cant wait till spring here. I do not pollinate I just want honey. Hope u continue to do good. Have a blessed week
Box’s looking good! That fed helped them out along with that natural pollen flow
Strong looking hives for winter. Thin syrup is working good. Merry Christmas!
Love your Chanel,merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
Great video.. pollen wow. What part of Florida do you live in? I was putting out pollen patties today. Very little natural pollen. Baton rouge area. Thanks.
@@CharlesONeill-i9u I'm in northern Florida just in the edge of the border with Alabama.
When do you plan on setting bees at the california. I'll plan on Sending out in february
I haven't heard anything from my broker yet. Last year they shipped out at the beginning of February but sometimes they've left third week of January or so.
When you have old foundation that you've scraped clean, do you prewax them before you put them back into the colonies or do you just throw them in with nothing on the plastic? Merry Christmas to you snd your family
@@jasonseaward8506 The bees would draw all the frames a lot better if I did put wax on them but I usually don't. Every year I say I will but I never seem to find the time. They will draw it without a fresh coat of wax on it but not as much and they have a higher tendency to draw it badly in my opinion.
Had the thick corn syrup been diluted at all off the load ?
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog The corn syrup I buy comes with 23% water added to it from the factory but even with me adding extra it's still incredibly thick. It seems the more I dilute it the better the impact on the bees growth (or at least their ability to eat it quickly).
@ do you add anything to keep it from spoiling when you dilute it?
@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog No I don't because I only add water to the totes that I'm going to be using that day. I haven't had any problems on the solid corn syrup fermenting only crystallizing.
Seems like the feed is going in too fast...
Since your goal is to stimulate growth, I don't know why you don't go to 1 to 2. I saw a video that compared several ratios of sugar syrup mixes to see which one the foraging bees preferred. They preferred 1 to 4. I think nectar is about 1:6.
@@rtxhoneybees I haven't seen that video but I'll have to check it out! Thin syrup is a new thing for me so I'm slowly trying out different concentrations.
The video is on @chuckshoneybees. He is in Jacksonville @@WalkintheWoodsApiaryVlog