$$$ Making Premium COMB Honey! First Attempt!
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Learn more about this Comb Honey Method on Gus Mitchell's Bee channel! ua-cam.com/video/Y8p--vvj80A/v-deo.html
Best line of the day .... "Don't be like that to me bee, I just want to check out what you got...and MAYBE TAKE IT". Pretty sure that's what she was thinking...lol
Kamon, back in the day, my father & grandfather only made comb honey. Could not afford an extractor 75 years ago. 35 years ago I was still making comb honey. Now I have an extractor.
If you remove those supers that have extracting frames now the bees will fill your comb honey supers. If the flow is slowing your comb honey will be sporadic. You want the bees to fill them fast, as slow leads to tougher comb, pollen, and not well filled.
I used to do a lot of Kelly comb sections. The idea is to fill them fast. We would split hives in early spring, them reunite them just before main flow. Kept them right on the verge of swarming, main honey flow tends to discourage swarming. Throw on the 4 1/2” supers, and pull them off the minute they are capped. If you leave them on, bees stain the cappings with propolis and pollen. We never left the medium honey supers on at the same time, as it discourages the bees from drawing out the sections and filling them. They will fill the drawn comb and build bur comb before drawing out the thin foundation. Cut comb 4 1/2 may be easier to get the bees to work. Comb honey is premium because it is a lot of work, more appealing to the customer, and no honey tastes better than right from the comb. Good luck with it Kamon!
Kayman, i find that the bees will not cure honey in the center of the first super over a single deep. They seem to purpose that area for more brood. However, the first super over a double deep will be fully utilized by the bees for cured honey. I went back to using double deeps for that reason in most of my hives. Or put your comb honey supers as the second above the excluder.
Nice video's . Especially the long hive. I have one and really like it. I would like to see more on your long hives.
If you''re getting pollen in your comb honey add a buffer on top of your bottom deep. Often bees will do this. Using the buffer reduces this from happening.
Thanks K&L. I always learn something from your videos
Ha Kamon I enjoyed your video. I never tryed comb honey here in Virginia never thought the flow was strong enough. And its not where I am. Buy I hope it wors out for u. Have a blessed day
Yes Sir,that stuff is Beautiful!
Harvested comb last year,had medium boxes that weighed close to 60lbs @,58 lbs.
Hard to sell in small markets. People now days no savvy, or aren't familiar with comb! South Central Michigan location was primarily Black Locust honey, white water white and thick Gorgeous stuff.
41/8×41/8 boxes @$2.25 bought 100 from Betterbee.Hog half comb looks attractive,smaller boxes but still pricey.
Don't ya love listening to B.B.
He's smooth as that Sourwood he produces.
Comb honey is the best. To me it tastes way better than honey whipped in an extractor.
K&L, thanks again for another fine video! Our honey is darker this year also! It has to be the Tulip Popular. The late freeze we had in March hurt the flow in my area. The sumac is beginning to bloom here. I guess our flows are about the same this year. Last year we had a gigantic mimosa blooming and I’m hoping it’s decent this year. Good luck with that comb honey!
Great job ....
Thanks for sharing with us Kamon, we appreciate you. Just Emailed you :)
My honey was definitely darker amber than usual. I usually have very very light honey.
Great video Kamen
"There's a lot of money in honeybees. The problem is getting any of it out of them."
Gus is the king of cut comb.
He has a whole system very cool
I was hoping to see gus do a update video on his mating t- post bracket. To see a Yard of those I think would be cool.
I would love to try some comb honey . I wonder how much it would be to mail it to Wisconsin
I want to try this
Hope ur gonna make a follow up on that comb, good video
I've tried ross rounds this year, so far.. they are not drawing it out at all.
So is there a reason they fill from top to bottom?
Nice
Working singles this year also and didn't think about checking for swarm cell since the flow started. Good idea to check for that and there continuing to move the honey up. Any ideas if they start filling in the brood box instead of filling up a super?
you mentioned you were going to feed the girls? do they have a sugar syrup nearby? or where is your placement for feeding this time in the season?
The girls being fed are splits needing to draw foundation and they all have internal feeders.
I love “no bee… I’m just here to maybe take your Honey 🍯🍯🍯😂😂😂”
I’d like to make comb honey again but the honey here in west Texas crystalized way too fast
Hi Kamon, I know this is kind of off topic, but I have a question regarding cleaning my hive. Unfortunately, my hives both died off during our wet weather here. Likewise, they developed mold inside. Right now, one of them has 50 or so robber bees going to it, which I don’t really mind as I am just keeping bees as a hobby. Anyway, what should I clean my hives with to get the mold off. Thank you for your reply in advance. 😊
Kamon; whats the entrance for on the top super on the colony to the left of the one you are working on? thanks
I have a few hives here in the Mid Hudson NY area and as of today (June 1st) some of my hives are honey bound (nectar bound). The queen has little to no place to lay. I spun out a few deep frames and now I have about a gallon of nectar. What can I do with that nectar? Freeze it and feed it back during autumn time? Refrigerate it? Cut it with 1:1 water and feed it back now? Please advise.
First year beek here. Curious if you add your queen excluder at the time you add the first super? I’m reading that some beekeepers add the first super with no excluder and one frame of brood to encourage the bees to move upward. They add the excluder later, moving the Queen back to lower brood box once good activity is evident above. Insights, advice, experience anyone?
Yes do the second technique, the frame of brood helps them move up
Coooool
Kamon, have you seen the new SimpleKomb cassettes? Slick idea that Bruce shared.
Haven't heard of that. I will have to check that out!
Got a link?
@@daviddowen3887 If you google SimpleKomb, you'll find it.
@@CastleHives Looks like the Dollar Tree version of Hogg Half cassettes.
What crawled out of the other hive at 2:35?
Whats the conference that you mentioned called?
I’d like to see you try the Hogg half comb cassettes
I got a box and cassettes from someone with no lids. I guess I'll have to buy a new filler kit or find lids for next year.
@@zerunklo I think you can order some online
i bough some clear plastic box's to put comb honey in in and they leaked, they were useless. They were advertised as Plastic Cut comb Box, and when i put the comb in you had to keep them upright or honey would leak out. I am willing to believe I did something wrong but be careful what you buy.
What is the recipe to paint my hives with wax? I just got new hives and would like them to last me a little while