📃 and your Lord has inspired bees to build dwellings and in the trees and in wath they erect , so follow humbly the paths of your Lord and eat of all the fruits from their bellies comes a drink of various colors , in which, , there is healing for people , indeed , a sign for the people who they reflect 📃
Hey Lawrence! Have you ever experimented with what I know as "Palmer Pair" named after Mike Palmer? It's a two-queen system whereby the bottom 2 boxes (side-by-side) are nucs, each with an excluder. Shared between them on-top is a single full-size set of supers above the 2 Qex. Sometimes it requires a little simple woodwork to ensure all gaps are covered against rain etc. The theory goes that each brood-box feels small compared to the total space and the queen has restricted laying but not from being honey-bound nor becuase of pressure from other bees. Result being that bees mature quickly into foragers and you make more honey than a single hive. But more importantly and what interests me, is that they almost (apparently) never swarm because the combination of brood pheremone vs total space vs bee density etc never triggers it. Please would you try this for us all to see? I would also like to thank you; Having your non-BS channel and amazingly gentle bees and theavailability of queens, and information about local-ish conditions has been an absolute god-send for me as a novice beek over in Shropshire who questions recieved-wisdom.
📃 and your Lord has inspired bees to build dwellings and in the trees and in wath they erect , so follow humbly the paths of your Lord and eat of all the fruits from their bellies comes a drink of various colors , in which, , there is healing for people , indeed , a sign for the people who they reflect 📃
I'm surprised you didn't buy the big WBC hive, would definitely like to see what it is like inside.
I REALLY wanted it!
It’s just a bog standard hive inside pretty much. The outer shell on the wbc is just that… just an outer shell.
Lawrence-Did you break in after hours 😂😂😂
How much did you end up taking home with you?
Very little actually! I'm being good nowadays :)
@@BlackMountainHoney xD We'll see how much you take home from the show this weekend - providing your attending that is...
Thorne is to beekeepers what screwfix is to tradies. Such a good shop, albeit a bit pricey.
Hey Lawrence! Have you ever experimented with what I know as "Palmer Pair" named after Mike Palmer?
It's a two-queen system whereby the bottom 2 boxes (side-by-side) are nucs, each with an excluder. Shared between them on-top is a single full-size set of supers above the 2 Qex. Sometimes it requires a little simple woodwork to ensure all gaps are covered against rain etc.
The theory goes that each brood-box feels small compared to the total space and the queen has restricted laying but not from being honey-bound nor becuase of pressure from other bees. Result being that bees mature quickly into foragers and you make more honey than a single hive. But more importantly and what interests me, is that they almost (apparently) never swarm because the combination of brood pheremone vs total space vs bee density etc never triggers it.
Please would you try this for us all to see?
I would also like to thank you; Having your non-BS channel and amazingly gentle bees and theavailability of queens, and information about local-ish conditions has been an absolute god-send for me as a novice beek over in Shropshire who questions recieved-wisdom.
I love thornes equipment, they do great deals every few months too.
Nice display on the inventory. Hoping you're having a great season
Wish I’d of known you were in my neck of the woods. I’d of come and said hello!
I said the same last time he was up here!