Ditto :) I found this very informative & Frederick Dunn's voice is calm and soothing. I just finished building my 1st Flow Hive here in Canyon Country, CA and am very excited to fill it with Bees. I have long Loved gardening and Beekeeping seems the next logical step. I want to help the Bees help us.
Oh yeah...I learned QUICKLY that I had could work the hives for a good period of time, the bees would let me know soon enough when they'd had enough. The very tone of the buzz changes, that's about when I'll put down whatever I have in my hands, first buzz around my head, start walking, calmly, and there's no issue! Bees are VERY good at telling you what they feel or want you to know.
I have no idea why UA-cam recommended this video for me, but I'm glad they did. I love cinematography and your voice is so soothing. You make me want to be a beekeeper.
I really think the inventors of the FLOW HIVE deserve a award a biiiiiiig award for best invention that will help mankind as well as the BEE population this is amazing
you are an excellent teacher and verbal illustrator. I can't believe how much I've learned just watching a few of your videos and how I don't get bored at all watching them.
Thanks for pointing out the sustainability concerns with bees. I.e. leaving the bees enough honey, extracting only on good weather, etc. Basically, taking care of the bees which are essentially working for you without any real choice in the matter. Imagine you worked hard all year to save up $10,000 dollars to help you buy food, water, shelter and clothing for the winter, and one day someone came and stole it without asking. How would that make you feel? So we must respect and treat bees very well. Especially, since they are one of the foundations of the food chain in nature.
I am 23, from the UK, I stumbled across your videos by complete coincidence and I have absolutely no experience nor knowledge of bee keeping; nor do I even have the capacity to even take up bee keeping. Yet I find your videos so interesting and captivating! Especially when you voice narrate. keep up the awesome work! Oh and that outro was absolutely top draw!
Thank you for the subtitles... people do not realise, that some people are hear-impaired and I teach English in Germany and make my students watch videos on UA-cam. It helps them to understand even better what is said, when they can read along. Therefore thank you very much for the extra work you put in!
To be honest, YT recommended me to watch this video after watching several videos about yellow jackets removal and I must say that I was blown away by the amount of knowledge imparted by you, at least to someone like me who has absolutely no clue whatsoever about beekeeping and honey extraction. Maybe it has something to do with your soothing voice, which I reckoned is like the way Cesar Milan speak (what he calls "good energy") on the Dog Whisperer. Now, I'm seriously considering studying about beekeeping and bee husbandry. Thanks for your wonderful video and keep up the good work!
I'm actually thankful for the complainers as you made this absolutely wonderful vid with great voiceover explaining in detail what was going on. Learned a great deal, thank you for this!
Awesome shot with the drone at the end, what a dream. A nice healthy colony of bees near plenty of plants, a good sized house with some sheds and other smaller buildings all covered with solar panels and the beautiful landscape surrounding it all. Makes me want to work even harder and possible live like this.
Thank you Ron... I designed and constructed the house myself :) and I do love where I live, bought the land over 16 years ago without even seeing it. The small buildings are chicken coops ("> and one goat shed... So glad you liked the ending!
I just got to the part where you bring out that each frame seems to have honey from different floral sources! Mind blown!! That is awesome. And it makes sense. How exciting
THAT alone was one of the most amazing things about individual frame extraction. Since we've always consolidated all of the honey frames, we never noticed that the bees frame order really follows the season nectar sources from the center (oldest) to the outer frames (most current)... BONUS!
That's a little detail that a lot of people miss. One guy was showing pictures showing how bees start at the edge of the frame and work towards the center and he was trying to prove that the flow hive doesn't take account of that and that you would never know for sure when the frames were ready to be harvested. But I pointed out that the bees don't start at the exact edge but rather close to the edge which they seem to leave for the very last. That's why FH tells you to wait till the very edge is completely capped. I'm so glad you pointed to that.
The only place I have noticed honey capped at the edges and not in the center is when I am in the deep boxes that contain brood, pollen and nectar resources in a ring for feeding convenience. Up in the honey supers where there is nothing but nectar and finished honey, the storing behavior is very consistent from top down and center out and as you say, the edges are finished last or not at all in some cases. The bottom line, of course, that ends all speculation, is to simply test the honey you take off for water content/percentage. Thanks for sharing and I'm glad I covered something useful!
Thank you very much. I am a new novice and have not started my hive as of yet. I am still accumalting knowledge so that I will have a strong start. You provided allot of information and i really enjoyed the content. Again thank you.
First time watching your channel! I’m very impressed with this video. Educational value is off the charts, presentation / narration was clear and precise. I will subscribe. Thank you for putting the effort forward to create your content.
Thank you Fred for your videos and I can only support the many positive comments on this site. Im from Australia and comments from other sites (including Oz) are not so accurate as it has turned out. I felt your excitement in discovering that each frame had uniquely sourced honey. I appreciate that you avoided as far as possible making assumptions and tested where possible. You are an inspiration and generous in your information sharing. Thank you!
HI Cath, What a wonderful comment! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your observations and appreciation. It means a lot to me and I'm jealous that you are just going into spring down there :) while our skies are darkening and temps are dropping.
Hi from Western Australia, Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience. I’m a novice starting out. As so many have already said, I learnt a great deal from your vid. I’m looking to set up a traditional hive, learn to work with the bees, learn what to look for then possibly look into the use of the flow hive later. Once again, many thanks, Cheers, Nigel
Gary's Wife sez: OMG you are like the Bob Ross of Beekeepers !!!!! :) I could listen to you all day. What a wonderful lesson on Beekeeping. I am brand new at it and hope to be able to get some Free Flow Hives in the future. Have 35 acres in the high plains near Pikes Peak (central Colorado) with no one real close all around. No one growing any GMO in my area. Have strown a massive amount of wild flower seed all over the property. Supposed to pick up my first "package" this weekend in Denver (3 hour round trip drive). I am so excited to start the beekeeping. I have about 400 canning jars all accumulated (many bought in boxes at the flea market in the city. So excited. Thank you for the wonderful video.
Great tidbit of information in this video. I really appreciate that you tell, AND show how the draining of the FlowHive causes the hive to temporarily evacuate the hive. I hadn't heard of this in other videos I've watched about these hives. If a feller wasn't aware of this crucial info, he may possibly drain the hive during an inappropriate weather time. THANKS for all of you fantastic informative videos. I DON'T yet got bees, but I will someday. In the meantime, I'm learning as much as I possibly can. I find your channel a vast source for knowledge!
Thank you sir for your informative, educational and very well done video. I thought I was watching a national geographic episode. such a production like this should be recognized.
You are a very thoughtful man by just looking at your precision tools and the way You treat your bees. You are letting them have some of their precious food for winter instead of water and sugar. These bees are in very good hands and will be rewarding You! Thanks for sharing!
One Observation I didn't address in the video. When I opened a frame all the way all at once, we received more honey than if I opened the frame in stages. I think that opening the frame in stages allowed more time for the honey to seep down into the hive body. I would also tilt it back the full 5 degrees to aid in getting the honey out faster and again limiting the opportunity for seepage. Thoughts?
I will not add suppers to my hives till next Spring, BUT I'll share my plan at this point. I as well have the hives tipped forward around 3-4 Deg BUT plan to add a permanent 8 to 10 Deg shim to the bottom of the Flow supper netting somewhere in the 5 to 7 Deg rearward tilt. AFTER watching you vid I'll be looking into incorporating a tray (shelf) at the rear of the shim to catch the leaked honey in an attempt to keep the girls inside the hive...
harley4jcs Will look forward to seeing how that works out. The leaking isn't the only reason the colony occupants evacuated, it's alto the sudden increase in hive humidity from the open cells. Both are contributing factors. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Frederick, first of all, let me thank you for the great quality of the videos you have been doing. I'm from Brazil and I'm thinking of buying one of these hives. I saw on another video that it's better to turn the key on one side at the time. If I find the video I can send to you. Let me take the opportunity to ask you a question about the hive maintenance. What kind of cleaning do you have to do and at what frequency? One more thing. What is the life time you expect to have till it's useless? Would you show how it looks like on the box under the one the contains the frames on a next video?
João Silva Hi Joao, thank you for all of the compliments, I will be answering many of your questions in the next video. As for cleaning, I haven't done any cleaning as the bees keep things inside nice and tidy. I will also be demonstrating how to activate the flow frames and which method (step by step, or all at once) produces the most leakage into the hive. Thanks and have a great week!
Frederick, great video quality and your voice over is super, so much better than text. Regarding the honey that overflowed into the hive. I have several friends who saw this happen by the first person in the group to harvest. The rest opened the individual frame in stages. Once the flow from the frame started to slow they would go a little deeper with the "key" and open another group of cells. No honey flowed into the hive at all. This required some more attention, but only added 15 to 30 minutes to the overall process. Again, your contributions to beekeeping and the environment wonderful, thank you.
Love your videos! Especially since I've been seriously contemplating getting myself a flow hive for years now, ever since I first saw their kick starter..... even if I only ever get a single modest jar of honey off them, I just think it would be cool to have bees in the garden. There's something cheerful about sitting in the garden and watching them go about their business!!!
Thank you so much for the guard bee information ! Never knew that and so comforting to understand more about bees that I wish only to care for whatever I do.
UPDATE: within 24 hours of extraction, this hive/colony was back to business as usual with no apparent detrimental impact. UPDATE2: The frames in this colony are full again and are already being capped 9/23/2016. The weather is about to turn for the worse...
I have a few more questions. you as an experienced beekeeper now have tested the flow hive fully.....which advice would you give to beginning beekeepers ? if I buy lets say two flow hives can i decently get started? or do u advise to go for the old ways on beekeeping? cause personaly i am verry interested and passioned about this and i wanne do it right...i dont care about costs but as i se it... it cuts away allot of costs specialy when ur new and dont have all the equipment needed. and its a extra cost for extracting equipment also. cause the way u do it is like..... u get 4 hives on top of eatch other.... 3 old ones and one flow hive and u basicly just use to flow hive to extract and leave the rest ontoutched.... seems like a good way to do it but i dont have that....
kristof privat All beginning beekeepers are not the same, therefore there is no single answer for your question. I would advise any beginning keeper to do their own research and make their own observations, taking into consideration how much time and effort they can devote to the bees. FlowHives are new and exciting for many keepers, but we are all still testing, observing and learning about the system. If as you say, money is no object, then there is nothing wrong with starting off with the flow-system. It basically operates the same as traditional Langstroth designs and only the FlowFrame components make the difference. Knowledge about bees and beekeeping practices remain the same. If you want to look in on your bees every day without disturbing them, the flowhive has a great advantage. It's a question that doesn't have a simple answer. Visit beekeepers and observe their practices, then make a decision on what's right for you and your bees.
I actually suggest that you may want to begin with traditional hive boxes and learn to care for honey bees through a few seasons in your area. If the bees seem to be doing very well, then it's easy to reinstall then in a flowhive. Most beekeepers do not harvest in the first year as the colony of bees is getting established. If they thrive, then I suggest advancing and possibly spending more on a flowhive.
Desert wanderer The flowhive basically is no different that a traditional hive as far as keeping the bees, keeping them warm, cool, how many supers are used etc. The difference is only in being able to view and how one extracts the honey! Otherwise, as was stated here when you decide to extract honey make sure the weather is going to be super nice!!!
Hi Fred! I'm a 21 year old guy from Philippines who loves honey. Actually I was searching "Honey Extraction" to relieve my stress (Yeah, it's weird but it works 😁). Then today, one of your videos were recommended on my Notification. I watched it and I learned a lot of information. Thanks for sharing this Knowledge of yours because right now I am planning to stall a honey business by doing what you're doing. Thanks fred! You inspired a normal person to become a bee keeper! Thank you very much!
Incredibly informative. Really been watching flow hi e since its kickstarter entry. Thrilled to know from someone as well informed as your self it looks like a winner. Great over all information as well. Thank you
Hi Frederick, I am in the same boat as Raven. I have bees building a hive in my back porch roof and was wondering if I get a hive like in this video if they would abandon the porch and use the hive? I know absolutely nothing about bee's or keeping them. Great informative video.
Mr Dunn, Thanks for the great videos. I really enjoy them immensely..Your videos are one of the best homemade documentaries on Flow Hive I have seen. Just wanted to give you kudos, and thank you for your time
I can't tell you how many times I watched this video! My dream vid would be a full-length movie of just the bees buzzing and the honey flowing. Thanks again Fred!
Doc Holladay Thank you so much! I'm glad you started viewing this series and that your interest has been sparked. Many cities have community or cooperative gardens where bees are kept, you may want to check into that? Have a great weekend.
These videos are awesome and are full of information. I did not know that bees were working 24/7. Annie had it easy, she was allowed to go to sleep at night, these bees have the real hard knock life!
Really informative. I 've learned more from watching just 2 of your videos than all the other sites/papers that I've seen thus far. Thank you. I have already considered the weather-factor but it was great that you addressed it in this video. Thank you again. Subscribed so I may learn more!
This is one of the best videographies I've ever seen! Your voice is amazing!! So glad you were advised to stop texting over, or we'd never have been privy to such a God-given talent as your vocal instrument. I'm subscribing just to keep up with your bees!!
Ok Linda... THAT is probably one of the best compliments I've ever received. Thank you so much and I look forward to sharing with you in the future. Thank you for subscribing :)
This has got to be the best bee video I have seen to date. Thank you for no music or text on screen. Often wondered about this system and now I know. Rather a long drawn out process for one box, but very clean operation and like the separated flavours you finish up with. Subscribed right away.
Frederick, thank you for such an informative video. I was able to watch the entire video and enjoyed it very much. I would love to have one of those systems some day myself. I enjoyed listening to your voice as well. It is very soothing and yes, you could do voice overs! Some people are quickly zooming in and out, up and down, and all over the place with the camera, which is very distracting. I agree that voice is better than text and I also learned much more from this than others combined. I am subbing. : ) Thanks again.
Mr. Dunn. Your video's are pure poetry on all levels. Your information precise, warm and very informative. We have moved to Maui, HI. I am 67 and retired. Always LOVED bees from earliest memory. Used to raise huge raised bed gardens, rabbits, ducks, chickens. Would love to get into beekeeping, first for the planet, but also the esthetics, and of course the natural honey. Would you please direct me to beekeeping basics and any other information you may have. Your experiences testing out the flow hive system really intriguing and well done. Please keep the video's coming. Thank you for all your help. This would allow me to fulfill another "dream" about living naturally, and sharing the wealth. Steven
Hi again Steven, there is a series by Dr Delaplane from the University of Georgia, I think it's a year in the bee yard or some similar title. He was always my primary mentor years ago and his series is on UA-cam, I highly recommend his series. Thank you for the wonderful compliments! ua-cam.com/video/UjrdwXXEtLo/v-deo.html
Fredrick you have some incredible videos, thank you for all the work you put into them. Now that you've had the Flow supers for a couple of years we're wondering how they're holding up after years of use? The high price is a concern if they don't hold up after continued use. Thank you for your input, Brian and Rhi
Hi Brian, that's a common question I receive and as of this spring, the original flowframes are still fully functional and not showing signs of wear. I think the propolis and wax that the bees work into the contact/friction areas serve to protect and lubricate. I may power wash a few this summer just to see how they look without any of the wax present. But for now, they are doing well after being in service for three years.
Fascinating! This seems a much kinder way of harvesting the honey. No smoke or disturbing the bees or accidentally squashing them when you're getting the frames out. ☺️
Hi Lesley, it is indeed, we do both methods and I'd forgotten how much work spinning the frames really is as it took us two days. The flow-frames don't cause the bees to go defending the apiary as they do when we remove honey supers for harvesting. In a perfect setup, all our hives would have flow-supers on them, maybe we'll get there eventually. I have a video demo coming up where I can put the harvesting jars on a shelf behind the flow-super and let the honey run in without any wasps or anything else getting into the honey... I think you'll also enjoy seeing that :)
I'm new to your channel & to the Flow Hive. I see 4 stacked bee boxes, you drained one. Do you leave the honey in the bottom 3 boxes to get the bees through the winter? Is there ever a time when you would open the remaining boxes?
Hi Veronica, yes, those additional boxes are for winter honey and brood production. As for being a time when I go into the lower boxes, yes, several times a year as I study honey bee behavior and frequently evaluate interior conditions. This year, we have removed all flowsupers for winter and that's also a time for a thorough inspection of each of the lower boxes.
Fred, you are an inspiration. Loved your video. You have a great voice for narration! I feel smarter just watching your videos. Thanks for all you do. Keep up the great work.
Excellent vid, Something has caught my curiosity though - as you articulate so well that the bees stock different types of honey in different frames, what if this represents a variable diet for the ladies of your hive? That they store from each seasonal source as blooms cascade across the seasons means that your hive has many kinds of different nutrient profiles stored from the year's efforts across different frames. Could removing part of their variation weaken the constitution of the hive? And if so, would it be possible to set up a half catch flow frame instead of taking the whole collection? Thank you for this great video. I am a hair away from buying a flow hive on the strength of this presentation.
Hi Aaron, that's a very interesting observation! I can give you peace of mind in knowing that the honey is a primary carbohydrate resource and not a strong nutritional staple. What is VERY valuable and has a direct impact on the bees is the pollen from those same sources - the pollen has the critical proteins used in brood production and that's where we want to build the strongest and healthiest bees with plenty of fat as they hatch. You are the first to bring that up and I will be discussing it further in my upcoming FAQ 22 episode next Friday! Thank YOU!
Hi Fred. First video I've seen of yours. Keep narrating you are good at it. Your videos are high quality and very detailed. You have nice equipment and pay attention to the details viewers want to see and know. You do things the proper way to make it easy, efficient, and just all around avoid all the bad pitfalls. When I'm an old guy I plan to be just like you. Live on a nice piece of land and just have a bunch of daily hobbies with one of them being bee husbandry. I want to give back to nature and those around me. I want to be a benevolent grandpa kind of figure in old age. That's my retirement plan :) you're living my future dream. Thank you for showing us youngsters how it's done. Keep going strong and God bless.
That's really cool about the different coloured honey A similar thing happens with maple syrup If you keep the sap from different trees Separate you can notice a difference colour and flavour
That's interesting Joey, I hadn't thought about varying flavors from trees. My family has been producing maple syrup in Vermont for generations, I think they have always just run it all into one vat. Would be interesting to look into.
if you didn't crack open the full frame at once, instead breaking open only a half or a third and waiting until that drained, would that address the issue of honey overflowing the collection tube and dripping down into the hive?
Thank you very much for all the videos you have put together about the Flow system. Also, thank you for narrating again, it make the videos so much more enjoyable to watch.
Hi Hoa! Thank you so much for this comment! Narrating is definitely easier than doing all of those titles so I may simply continue with narration. Have a great day and thank you for watching!
I rarely comment on videos, but I really wanted you to know that this was an EXCELLENT video! We have been top bar beekeepers for the last four years, and are incorporating our first Langstroth hive with flow hive component this year. Thank you for putting so much good information in this video. The drone footage at the end was a great touch!
Oh, thank you so much! I'm glad you were inspired to comment. If you have not yet placed your flowsuper order and would like to get a $50.00 discount on your first order, just give me your e-mail address and I'll send a discount link right away. Wishing you all the best with your Langstroth expansions!
I hope it helped to put you to sleep Macioteve, apparently, there is a sleep deprivation association that recommends my narrated vids to help them sleep... so, can't tell if that's good or bad :)
Just fascinating to me!! The posturing the bees do...not knowing a thing really about bee keeping, I found this video entertaining as well as educational!
Thank you. For keeping the bees and keeping them safe. The video was fantastic, I always wondered how you actually got the honey. This method looks far easier to get the honey without bothering the colony too much.
@@FrederickDunn my dad was told by franciscan monks how to care for bees in the 50's. he says that its not so hard if someone tell you how to do it. by watching your vids i now understood what he meant...by next year i should have watched and read enough about it to at least keep it all alive (i think)
Good video, thanks for making it clear that no honey was dripping before, at the end you show that some frames still had honey in the bottom that bees can't get to it, don't forget to address that situation on your next videos. Regarding flow hive marketing about it don't bothering bees when draining the honey you show the opposite, it does bother a lot the bees, having bees outside for hours means that something really bad is going on, if honey did really drip inside you could lose bees and even the queen. My experience with harvesting honey with extractor or crush and strain never had bees clustering outside for hours, just some angry bees but that's normal with defensive bees like we have here. Finally about economics, you got lots of honey but no new wax from it, wax can also be sold for a good price and is healthy for the bees to make wax.
That dripping statement was for you Paulo! :) AS for the wax, I don't use it anyway and still have my other hives for that purpose if ever I need some. Remember, it takes a pound of honey to produce an ounce of wax. All interesting and thanks for commenting.
Say you don't extract any of their reserve honey, do the bees consume it all at the end of the winter? A weird part of me feels bad for taking away their hard work to prepare themselves for winter.
Hi Renee, that's a great question and what I personally do, is tend to leave more than they need on in the fall and after winter has passed just at the beginning of the spring nectar/honey flow, I will take off remaining honey from the previous year. It's interesting that old frames of honey are often ignored by the bees when another nectar collecting cycle begins, they use the new honey stores first. BUT, with honey bees, there will always be colonies that have their own set of rules. If you want to be safe and not starve your bees, take the surplus in the spring. Some keepers don't like that practice as some honey tends to crystalize or "candy" in the cells and can't be drained or spun out. I pull solidified honey supers and set up feeding stations with them away from the hives. They will clean them up and you can then put them back in service for another nectar flow.
Renee European honeybees are a species which are well documented for producing far, far more honey than the colony requires. In comparison to other species of bee, the honeybee produces a magnitude of honey greater in comparison to the size of the insect and colony. It is the reason this particular insect became an excellent source for farming honey by civilisations over thousands of years.
Hi Everyone! I demonstrated a SECOND extraction with this hive and experienced somewhat different results. You can view that video here ua-cam.com/video/GdYSNuAHigs/v-deo.html Almost no leaking the second time activating the same frames.
Hi Mauro, I personally can't imagine any other material working better than food grade plastic, bees have always accepted plastic frame materials, plastic feeders, and various other plastic components, this is the first time the entire cell has been plastic. Since the parts have to move in order to function and they are already very expensive, I can't imagine another material working as well.
29:10 Suddenly remembered of the following quran verse when he says about different colors of honey from same hive, I wonder how Amazing and Miraculous wonderful creatures the honey bees are. Quran : And your Lord inspired to the bee, "Take for yourself among the mountains, houses, and among the trees and [in] that which they construct. Then eat from all the fruits and follow the ways of your Lord laid down [for you]." There emerges from their bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought. Al Quran 16:68,69. Chapter: The Bee
huh! well i didnt mean to watch a half hour long video about bees, but it was.... super informative, and as someone who only knows the barest about beekeeping, it was still captivating and easy to understand... yay. :D
By far the best video ive seen regarding these flow frame hives. My gosh I cant wait to get mine and order my bees! I absolutely LOVE watching them and I'm STOKED it has WINDOWS TO WATCH THEM😄😆 I think i will go get a buncha flower bulbs tomorrow and stick here and there all over my place for them. Wonder what flowers they like best that bloom longer..🤔
Fields of white clover would feed the bees through an entire summer... flowers that have a short bloom cycle, or that don't produce much nectar will be largely ignored by the bees.
Thank-you so much for your input on the flow hive.As a beginner I'm struggling to find members in the local bee club to get exited about this product ( their way or the high way) and so your feedback is most helpful and much needed.Thanks again!
You're very welcome. I'm happy that it helped with your flowhive discussions at your bee club. Don't be discouraged, there are some old timers or even new ones with locked down ideas on how bees should be managed. Bee keeping seems to attract some very critical individuals who often seem to think that what they learn first is best and there the discussion ends. Welcome!
@@FrederickDunn Well ya gotta pay attention to key words such as me saying "and up to 1,000 for the complete set up" whereby the key word is "complete" since the 800.00 for the FH2 IS NOT the final price since there is a 50.00 dollar shipping cost as well as the 800.00 will not get you everything needed to completely do what it takes all the way to the end where the user is then harvesting honey and so why I said 1,000 for the complete set up :o)
@@get-the-lead-out.4593 TROLL ALERT lol money for guns though ;) my Volkswagon cost me "up to" 50K! roflmao this is why i never post videos on YT Mr dunn you are a very patient individual!!!!
Hey Frederick, I just wanted to say thanks so much for taking the time to make these videos. I really appreciate them and my kids love them as well. Keep up the great work!
I have never been into bee keeping or anything of the sort but I stumbled across your videos. They are very informative and interesting. Not boring at all and Im enjoying learning about bees, bee keeping and honey collecting. I dont dare try it lol, but I enjoy watching your videos. :)
I'm planning to start up a hive. And super glade i came across this video. This flow product looks like a wonderful set up. Already looking at the web site! Thank you for your up load!
Just bought my first flow hive, your video and discussion was EXCELLENT, thanks. I live near Sacramento Ca and have 2 hives. Processing the frames is always a challenge, I will install everything in the spring (to close to the end of this year.Thanks again
Hi Mandy, I'm so glad my videos have helped you make a decision. With traditional processing, I have a hard time putting aside enough time to do it and the days just get away from me. Being able to drain off even just a couple of flowframes can prevent my colonies from becoming honey-bound and I can just stand there sipping cappuccino :) I am very happy with it!
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I just watched a 36 minute video on flow frame honeybees. Its 12:24 am. I don't regret a thing
Ditto :) I found this very informative & Frederick Dunn's voice is calm and soothing. I just finished building my 1st Flow Hive here in Canyon Country, CA and am very excited to fill it with Bees. I have long Loved gardening and Beekeeping seems the next logical step. I want to help the Bees help us.
I find myself watching the weirdest shit on youtube when I should be sleeping.
I had no clue about bees but this turned out to be the best video I've seen all week long!
You're like the Bob Ross of beekeeping
Well these are happy bees
I didn't know that the bees would intentionally headbutt you as a warning, that's adorable and cool
*BOP* "BEEGONE, sir!"
Oh yeah...I learned QUICKLY that I had could work the hives for a good period of time, the bees would let me know soon enough when they'd had enough. The very tone of the buzz changes, that's about when I'll put down whatever I have in my hands, first buzz around my head, start walking, calmly, and there's no issue! Bees are VERY good at telling you what they feel or want you to know.
Stinging kills them too as the stinger is more often than not left in the target so they're gonna take other actions beforehand :)
@@highstandards6226 So what does it mean when a bee high-fives you?
Kinda like warning shots
I have no idea why UA-cam recommended this video for me, but I'm glad they did. I love cinematography and your voice is so soothing. You make me want to be a beekeeper.
Yay! Thank you Esra, such a great comment, and welcome to my channel :)
Esra Erimez UA-cam knows what you dont. 😆
True! Damn Man, you even make me want to be a bee!!
Same here! Very cool, though!
I really think the inventors of the FLOW HIVE deserve a award a biiiiiiig award for best invention that will help mankind as well as the BEE population this is amazing
They have already received lots of awards and recognition. I'm sure they will continue to be recognized as time passes. :)
you are an excellent teacher and verbal illustrator. I can't believe how much I've learned just watching a few of your videos and how I don't get bored at all watching them.
Thank you Blair! So glad you enjoy what I do and are learning something :)
Love this video...well made! I am almost 69 and started learning about bees and love it.
Glad you enjoyed it! I wish you all the best in your beekeeping adventure!
Thanks for pointing out the sustainability concerns with bees. I.e. leaving the bees enough honey, extracting only on good weather, etc. Basically, taking care of the bees which are essentially working for you without any real choice in the matter. Imagine you worked hard all year to save up $10,000 dollars to help you buy food, water, shelter and clothing for the winter, and one day someone came and stole it without asking. How would that make you feel? So we must respect and treat bees very well. Especially, since they are one of the foundations of the food chain in nature.
You work and have wonderful food for the winter, someone steals it all and leaves nothing but junk food.
Great video for Flow Hive owners even five years later, thanks.
You're very welcome, thank you for taking the time to comment :)
Seeing all the bees and their different behaviors makes me appreciate them so very much
If you appreciated the bees you would steal their honey.
I've watched several flow hive videos, but yours is the most educational.... and yes the narration was well done
I am 23, from the UK, I stumbled across your videos by complete coincidence and I have absolutely no experience nor knowledge of bee keeping; nor do I even have the capacity to even take up bee keeping. Yet I find your videos so interesting and captivating! Especially when you voice narrate. keep up the awesome work! Oh and that outro was absolutely top draw!
Thank you Mr Tim! What a fantastic compliment... and I am actually pretty proud of the creative exit ;) thanks for watching to the end!
Thank you for the subtitles... people do not realise, that some people are hear-impaired and I teach English in Germany and make my students watch videos on UA-cam. It helps them to understand even better what is said, when they can read along. Therefore thank you very much for the extra work you put in!
You are very welcome, I do that to all of my videos now :)
To be honest, YT recommended me to watch this video after watching several videos about yellow jackets removal and I must say that I was blown away by the amount of knowledge imparted by you, at least to someone like me who has absolutely no clue whatsoever about beekeeping and honey extraction. Maybe it has something to do with your soothing voice, which I reckoned is like the way Cesar Milan speak (what he calls "good energy") on the Dog Whisperer. Now, I'm seriously considering studying about beekeeping and bee husbandry. Thanks for your wonderful video and keep up the good work!
I'm actually thankful for the complainers as you made this absolutely wonderful vid with great voiceover explaining in detail what was going on. Learned a great deal, thank you for this!
Thanks so much Ying... so nice of you to comment!
Awesome shot with the drone at the end, what a dream. A nice healthy colony of bees near plenty of plants, a good sized house with some sheds and other smaller buildings all covered with solar panels and the beautiful landscape surrounding it all. Makes me want to work even harder and possible live like this.
Thank you Ron... I designed and constructed the house myself :) and I do love where I live, bought the land over 16 years ago without even seeing it. The small buildings are chicken coops ("> and one goat shed... So glad you liked the ending!
Frederick Dunn You have so much space :O
I just got to the part where you bring out that each frame seems to have honey from different floral sources! Mind blown!! That is awesome. And it makes sense. How exciting
THAT alone was one of the most amazing things about individual frame extraction. Since we've always consolidated all of the honey frames, we never noticed that the bees frame order really follows the season nectar sources from the center (oldest) to the outer frames (most current)... BONUS!
Yeah, they do that step by step, finish one type of honey source/ production, then take another.
please start to use phrasing like "happy little bees", and "all bees needs a friend".
I'm just glad you're not asking me to get a perm (';')( ';')
Frederick HaHa
Another GREAT Australian invention. I LOVE watching videos like this. Thank you so much. It really makes me want to start beekeeping.
What a time to be alive. I have a backyard perfectly suited to a small flow hive, so this will definitely be my next investment.
That's a little detail that a lot of people miss. One guy was showing pictures showing how bees start at the edge of the frame and work towards the center and he was trying to prove that the flow hive doesn't take account of that and that you would never know for sure when the frames were ready to be harvested. But I pointed out that the bees don't start at the exact edge but rather close to the edge which they seem to leave for the very last. That's why FH tells you to wait till the very edge is completely capped. I'm so glad you pointed to that.
The only place I have noticed honey capped at the edges and not in the center is when I am in the deep boxes that contain brood, pollen and nectar resources in a ring for feeding convenience. Up in the honey supers where there is nothing but nectar and finished honey, the storing behavior is very consistent from top down and center out and as you say, the edges are finished last or not at all in some cases. The bottom line, of course, that ends all speculation, is to simply test the honey you take off for water content/percentage. Thanks for sharing and I'm glad I covered something useful!
Thank you very much. I am a new novice and have not started my hive as of yet. I am still accumalting knowledge so that I will have a strong start. You provided allot of information and i really enjoyed the content. Again thank you.
This is seriously one of the most beautiful videos I have seen on UA-cam.
Wow.. thank you Shawn, your comment just made my morning :)
First time watching your channel! I’m very impressed with this video. Educational value is off the charts, presentation / narration was clear and precise. I will subscribe. Thank you for putting the effort forward to create your content.
Thank you Fred for your videos and I can only support the many positive comments on this site. Im from Australia and comments from other sites (including Oz) are not so accurate as it has turned out. I felt your excitement in discovering that each frame had uniquely sourced honey. I appreciate that you avoided as far as possible making assumptions and tested where possible. You are an inspiration and generous in your information sharing. Thank you!
HI Cath, What a wonderful comment! Thank you so much for taking the time to share your observations and appreciation. It means a lot to me and I'm jealous that you are just going into spring down there :) while our skies are darkening and temps are dropping.
Hi from Western Australia,
Thanks so much for taking the time to share your knowledge and experience. I’m a novice starting out. As so many have already said, I learnt a great deal from your vid. I’m looking to set up a traditional hive, learn to work with the bees, learn what to look for then possibly look into the use of the flow hive later.
Once again, many thanks,
Cheers, Nigel
Gary's Wife sez: OMG you are like the Bob Ross of Beekeepers !!!!! :) I could listen to you all day. What a wonderful lesson on Beekeeping. I am brand new at it and hope to be able to get some Free Flow Hives in the future. Have 35 acres in the high plains near Pikes Peak (central Colorado) with no one real close all around. No one growing any GMO in my area. Have strown a massive amount of wild flower seed all over the property. Supposed to pick up my first "package" this weekend in Denver (3 hour round trip drive). I am so excited to start the beekeeping. I have about 400 canning jars all accumulated (many bought in boxes at the flea market in the city. So excited. Thank you for the wonderful video.
Great tidbit of information in this video. I really appreciate that you tell, AND show how the draining of the FlowHive causes the hive to temporarily evacuate the hive. I hadn't heard of this in other videos I've watched about these hives. If a feller wasn't aware of this crucial info, he may possibly drain the hive during an inappropriate weather time. THANKS for all of you fantastic informative videos. I DON'T yet got bees, but I will someday. In the meantime, I'm learning as much as I possibly can. I find your channel a vast source for knowledge!
Thank you sir for your informative, educational and very well done video. I thought I was watching a national geographic episode. such a production like this should be recognized.
Thank you very much :)
3 AM recording this for us, we must say "Thank you Ms. Dunn. ^_^ "
You are a very thoughtful man by just looking at your precision tools and the way You treat your bees. You are letting them have some of their precious food for winter instead of water and sugar. These bees are in very good hands and will be rewarding You! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Jocelyn!
One Observation I didn't address in the video. When I opened a frame all the way all at once, we received more honey than if I opened the frame in stages. I think that opening the frame in stages allowed more time for the honey to seep down into the hive body. I would also tilt it back the full 5 degrees to aid in getting the honey out faster and again limiting the opportunity for seepage. Thoughts?
I will not add suppers to my hives till next Spring, BUT I'll share my plan at this point. I as well have the hives tipped forward around 3-4 Deg BUT plan to add a permanent 8 to 10 Deg shim to the bottom of the Flow supper netting somewhere in the 5 to 7 Deg rearward tilt. AFTER watching you vid I'll be looking into incorporating a tray (shelf) at the rear of the shim to catch the leaked honey in an attempt to keep the girls inside the hive...
harley4jcs Will look forward to seeing how that works out. The leaking isn't the only reason the colony occupants evacuated, it's alto the sudden increase in hive humidity from the open cells. Both are contributing factors. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Frederick, first of all, let me thank you for the great quality of the videos you have been doing. I'm from Brazil and I'm thinking of buying one of these hives. I saw on another video that it's better to turn the key on one side at the time. If I find the video I can send to you.
Let me take the opportunity to ask you a question about the hive maintenance. What kind of cleaning do you have to do and at what frequency? One more thing. What is the life time you expect to have till it's useless? Would you show how it looks like on the box under the one the contains the frames on a next video?
João Silva Hi Joao, thank you for all of the compliments, I will be answering many of your questions in the next video. As for cleaning, I haven't done any cleaning as the bees keep things inside nice and tidy. I will also be demonstrating how to activate the flow frames and which method (step by step, or all at once) produces the most leakage into the hive. Thanks and have a great week!
Frederick, great video quality and your voice over is super, so much better than text. Regarding the honey that overflowed into the hive. I have several friends who saw this happen by the first person in the group to harvest. The rest opened the individual frame in stages. Once the flow from the frame started to slow they would go a little deeper with the "key" and open another group of cells. No honey flowed into the hive at all. This required some more attention, but only added 15 to 30 minutes to the overall process.
Again, your contributions to beekeeping and the environment wonderful, thank you.
Love your videos! Especially since I've been seriously contemplating getting myself a flow hive for years now, ever since I first saw their kick starter..... even if I only ever get a single modest jar of honey off them, I just think it would be cool to have bees in the garden. There's something cheerful about sitting in the garden and watching them go about their business!!!
Thank you so much for the guard bee information ! Never knew that and so comforting to understand more about bees that I wish only to care for whatever I do.
I don't even like honey but I've taken interest in watching a lot of youtube videos about bees and honey lately and yours is very informative.
Thank you Jessica! As I'm sure you've been learning, it's more than honey :) Thank you for taking the time to share that you appreciated these videos!
UPDATE: within 24 hours of extraction, this hive/colony was back to business as usual with no apparent detrimental impact. UPDATE2: The frames in this colony are full again and are already being capped 9/23/2016. The weather is about to turn for the worse...
I have a few more questions. you as an experienced beekeeper now have tested the flow hive fully.....which advice would you give to beginning beekeepers ? if I buy lets say two flow hives can i decently get started? or do u advise to go for the old ways on beekeeping? cause personaly i am verry interested and passioned about this and i wanne do it right...i dont care about costs but as i se it... it cuts away allot of costs specialy when ur new and dont have all the equipment needed. and its a extra cost for extracting equipment also. cause the way u do it is like..... u get 4 hives on top of eatch other.... 3 old ones and one flow hive and u basicly just use to flow hive to extract and leave the rest ontoutched.... seems like a good way to do it but i dont have that....
kristof privat All beginning beekeepers are not the same, therefore there is no single answer for your question. I would advise any beginning keeper to do their own research and make their own observations, taking into consideration how much time and effort they can devote to the bees. FlowHives are new and exciting for many keepers, but we are all still testing, observing and learning about the system. If as you say, money is no object, then there is nothing wrong with starting off with the flow-system. It basically operates the same as traditional Langstroth designs and only the FlowFrame components make the difference. Knowledge about bees and beekeeping practices remain the same. If you want to look in on your bees every day without disturbing them, the flowhive has a great advantage. It's a question that doesn't have a simple answer. Visit beekeepers and observe their practices, then make a decision on what's right for you and your bees.
I actually suggest that you may want to begin with traditional hive boxes and learn to care for honey bees through a few seasons in your area. If the bees seem to be doing very well, then it's easy to reinstall then in a flowhive. Most beekeepers do not harvest in the first year as the colony of bees is getting established. If they thrive, then I suggest advancing and possibly spending more on a flowhive.
Frederick Dunn how would this work in ontario Canada where it’s colder?
Desert wanderer
The flowhive basically is no different that a traditional hive as far as keeping the bees, keeping them warm, cool, how many supers are used etc. The difference is only in being able to view and how one extracts the honey! Otherwise, as was stated here when you decide to extract honey make sure the weather is going to be super nice!!!
Hi Fred! I'm a 21 year old guy from Philippines who loves honey. Actually I was searching "Honey Extraction" to relieve my stress (Yeah, it's weird but it works 😁). Then today, one of your videos were recommended on my Notification. I watched it and I learned a lot of information. Thanks for sharing this Knowledge of yours because right now I am planning to stall a honey business by doing what you're doing. Thanks fred! You inspired a normal person to become a bee keeper! Thank you very much!
Hi Lawrence, I'm so glad to know that my videos are helping you achieve your dream with bees! Thank you for taking the time to share here!
Incredibly informative. Really been watching flow hi e since its kickstarter entry. Thrilled to know from someone as well informed as your self it looks like a winner. Great over all information as well. Thank you
Thank you!
I am not a bee keeper, but I find this fascinating to watch. I love to learn new things and this is giving me new information!
Hi Raven, welcome to beekeeping and I'm glad you found some useful information here :)
Hi Frederick, I am in the same boat as Raven. I have bees building a hive in my back porch roof and was wondering if I get a hive like in this video if they would abandon the porch and use the hive? I know absolutely nothing about bee's or keeping them. Great informative video.
I'm wearing headphones while watching, and at 7:55 I started shaking my head I thought there are bees on my head lol.
Lol I do the same thing when they get in my bee veil. It did sound like they on your ear though lol
Haha I did too!!
I came down here looking to see if anyone else did XD
I did the same exact thing. I shit my pants.
Haha! I was swatting at the air!
Mr Dunn, Thanks for the great videos. I really enjoy them immensely..Your videos are one of the best homemade documentaries on Flow Hive I have seen. Just wanted to give you kudos, and thank you for your time
Hi Paul, thank you so much for that comment and I really appreciate that you took the time to thank me :)
Bees are the greatest insect on the planet.
I can't tell you how many times I watched this video! My dream vid would be a full-length movie of just the bees buzzing and the honey flowing. Thanks again Fred!
Hmmmm.... I just may make a video like that some day :)
Super-bly done.Beautiful photographing and enjoyable narration. Hats off.
Thank you so much!
Doc Holladay Thank you so much! I'm glad you started viewing this series and that your interest has been sparked. Many cities have community or cooperative gardens where bees are kept, you may want to check into that? Have a great weekend.
These videos are awesome and are full of information. I did not know that bees were working 24/7.
Annie had it easy, she was allowed to go to sleep at night, these bees have the real hard knock life!
They sleep individually, but collectively there is always something going no in a hive :)
Really informative. I 've learned more from watching just 2 of your videos than all the other sites/papers that I've seen thus far. Thank you. I have already considered the weather-factor but it was great that you addressed it in this video. Thank you again. Subscribed so I may learn more!
Thank you RV Lady and welcome to my channel :) what a nice compliment!
I agree !
nanofree01 Thanks! :)
This is one of the best videographies I've ever seen! Your voice is amazing!! So glad you were advised to stop texting over, or we'd never have been privy to such a God-given talent as your vocal instrument.
I'm subscribing just to keep up with your bees!!
Ok Linda... THAT is probably one of the best compliments I've ever received. Thank you so much and I look forward to sharing with you in the future. Thank you for subscribing :)
Such a wonderful video Fred. You were so professional and compassionate in explaining things. I subscribed and looking forward to more. Thanks
Thank you so much and welcome to my channel :)
Well said
This has got to be the best bee video I have seen to date. Thank you for no music or text on screen. Often wondered about this system and now I know. Rather a long drawn out process for one box, but very clean operation and like the separated flavours you finish up with. Subscribed right away.
Frederick, thank you for such an informative video. I was able to watch the entire video and enjoyed it very much. I would love to have one of those systems some day myself. I enjoyed listening to your voice as well. It is very soothing and yes, you could do voice overs! Some people are quickly zooming in and out, up and down, and all over the place with the camera, which is very distracting. I agree that voice is better than text and I also learned much more from this than others combined. I am subbing. : ) Thanks again.
Thank you Grannie Annie, such a nice comment! Welcome to my channel :)
Mr. Dunn. Your video's are pure poetry on all levels. Your information precise, warm and very informative. We have moved to Maui, HI. I am 67 and retired. Always LOVED bees from earliest memory. Used to raise huge raised bed gardens, rabbits, ducks, chickens. Would love to get into beekeeping, first for the planet, but also the esthetics, and of course the natural honey. Would you please direct me to beekeeping basics and any other information you may have. Your experiences testing out the flow hive system really intriguing and well done. Please keep the video's coming. Thank you for all your help. This would allow me to fulfill another "dream" about living naturally, and sharing the wealth. Steven
Hi again Steven, there is a series by Dr Delaplane from the University of Georgia, I think it's a year in the bee yard or some similar title. He was always my primary mentor years ago and his series is on UA-cam, I highly recommend his series. Thank you for the wonderful compliments! ua-cam.com/video/UjrdwXXEtLo/v-deo.html
Fredrick you have some incredible videos, thank you for all the work you put into them. Now that you've had the Flow supers for a couple of years we're wondering how they're holding up after years of use? The high price is a concern if they don't hold up after continued use. Thank you for your input, Brian and Rhi
Hi Brian, that's a common question I receive and as of this spring, the original flowframes are still fully functional and not showing signs of wear. I think the propolis and wax that the bees work into the contact/friction areas serve to protect and lubricate. I may power wash a few this summer just to see how they look without any of the wax present. But for now, they are doing well after being in service for three years.
That’s great to hear. Thanks again for all the thoughtful videos you post, you’re really inspiring.
Fascinating! This seems a much kinder way of harvesting the honey. No smoke or disturbing the bees or accidentally squashing them when you're getting the frames out. ☺️
Hi Lesley, it is indeed, we do both methods and I'd forgotten how much work spinning the frames really is as it took us two days. The flow-frames don't cause the bees to go defending the apiary as they do when we remove honey supers for harvesting. In a perfect setup, all our hives would have flow-supers on them, maybe we'll get there eventually. I have a video demo coming up where I can put the harvesting jars on a shelf behind the flow-super and let the honey run in without any wasps or anything else getting into the honey... I think you'll also enjoy seeing that :)
I've been working my way through your videos and I've watched that one! :-)
:)
I'm new to your channel & to the Flow Hive. I see 4 stacked bee boxes, you drained one. Do you leave the honey in the bottom 3 boxes to get the bees through the winter? Is there ever a time when you would open the remaining boxes?
Hi Veronica, yes, those additional boxes are for winter honey and brood production. As for being a time when I go into the lower boxes, yes, several times a year as I study honey bee behavior and frequently evaluate interior conditions. This year, we have removed all flowsupers for winter and that's also a time for a thorough inspection of each of the lower boxes.
Does each stack of boxes have their own Queen and how far apart should these stacks be placed? Thank You
Fred, you are an inspiration. Loved your video. You have a great voice for narration! I feel smarter just watching your videos. Thanks for all you do. Keep up the great work.
Hi Denise, thank you so much for that thoughtful comment, very much appreciated! Definitely more to come in the spring :)
Excellent vid, Something has caught my curiosity though - as you articulate so well that the bees stock different types of honey in different frames, what if this represents a variable diet for the ladies of your hive? That they store from each seasonal source as blooms cascade across the seasons means that your hive has many kinds of different nutrient profiles stored from the year's efforts across different frames. Could removing part of their variation weaken the constitution of the hive? And if so, would it be possible to set up a half catch flow frame instead of taking the whole collection?
Thank you for this great video. I am a hair away from buying a flow hive on the strength of this presentation.
Hi Aaron, that's a very interesting observation! I can give you peace of mind in knowing that the honey is a primary carbohydrate resource and not a strong nutritional staple. What is VERY valuable and has a direct impact on the bees is the pollen from those same sources - the pollen has the critical proteins used in brood production and that's where we want to build the strongest and healthiest bees with plenty of fat as they hatch. You are the first to bring that up and I will be discussing it further in my upcoming FAQ 22 episode next Friday! Thank YOU!
You are the Bob Ross of bee keeping, so calming, I just stumbled on your videos some how looking for race car suspension setups. Nice Job.
Race car suspension? That's funny, but I'm glad you're here and thanks for that comparison to Bob!
Hi Fred. First video I've seen of yours. Keep narrating you are good at it. Your videos are high quality and very detailed. You have nice equipment and pay attention to the details viewers want to see and know. You do things the proper way to make it easy, efficient, and just all around avoid all the bad pitfalls. When I'm an old guy I plan to be just like you. Live on a nice piece of land and just have a bunch of daily hobbies with one of them being bee husbandry. I want to give back to nature and those around me. I want to be a benevolent grandpa kind of figure in old age. That's my retirement plan :) you're living my future dream. Thank you for showing us youngsters how it's done. Keep going strong and God bless.
That's really cool about the different coloured honey
A similar thing happens with maple syrup
If you keep the sap from different trees Separate you can notice a difference colour and flavour
That's interesting Joey, I hadn't thought about varying flavors from trees. My family has been producing maple syrup in Vermont for generations, I think they have always just run it all into one vat. Would be interesting to look into.
thank you for everything you told about bee behavior.......... really enjoyed it :) looking forward to more videos....
Thanks Damon!
I don't know how I made my way to your videos, but I'm glad I did! I didn't want the video to end. So neat, and sharing! Thank you!
Thank you so much.
if you didn't crack open the full frame at once, instead breaking open only a half or a third and waiting until that drained, would that address the issue of honey overflowing the collection tube and dripping down into the hive?
Correct, if you watch the second extraction video, problem solved.
Thank you very much for all the videos you have put together about the Flow system. Also, thank you for narrating again, it make the videos so much more enjoyable to watch.
Hi Hoa! Thank you so much for this comment! Narrating is definitely easier than doing all of those titles so I may simply continue with narration. Have a great day and thank you for watching!
Just moved to a place we can have bees and I think this would be great too have.
If you decide to get one, please don't forget to use the discount link in the video description, it also gives me a little off of my next purchase :)
I rarely comment on videos, but I really wanted you to know that this was an EXCELLENT video! We have been top bar beekeepers for the last four years, and are incorporating our first Langstroth hive with flow hive component this year. Thank you for putting so much good information in this video. The drone footage at the end was a great touch!
Oh, thank you so much! I'm glad you were inspired to comment. If you have not yet placed your flowsuper order and would like to get a $50.00 discount on your first order, just give me your e-mail address and I'll send a discount link right away. Wishing you all the best with your Langstroth expansions!
I like bees and this was very informative
Thank you!! You were so informative and answered so many of our questions.... being a first time, first year bee keepers with Flow Hives!
Glad it was helpful!
I don't know how did I get here, just woke up 5:30 AM and noticed that I left the pc on.
cool vid btw, just watched 30 mins of it
I hope it helped to put you to sleep Macioteve, apparently, there is a sleep deprivation association that recommends my narrated vids to help them sleep... so, can't tell if that's good or bad :)
Just fascinating to me!! The posturing the bees do...not knowing a thing really about bee keeping, I found this video entertaining as well as educational!
Thank you so much John! I appreciate that you took the time to watch and comment, much appreciated!
Great videos, and very informative. Please keep them coming.
Thank you... and I certainly will :)
its just satisfying to watch the honey pour out, I could just sit for hours watching a video of it
It's just as much fun in real life :) Thanks MedicDemon236
You have a great voice!😊
OOohhhh... maybe I can get some voiceover work (';')( ';') thanks!
Thank you. For keeping the bees and keeping them safe. The video was fantastic, I always wondered how you actually got the honey. This method looks far easier to get the honey without bothering the colony too much.
this is so satisfyimg to watch! and i know positively nothing about bees
Thank you!
@@FrederickDunn because of you i start a hive next year =) hope it will go well
@@ragimundvonwallat8961 Oh, that's GREAT! I hope everything goes well for you and the bees in your care!
@@FrederickDunn my dad was told by franciscan monks how to care for bees in the 50's. he says that its not so hard if someone tell you how to do it. by watching your vids i now understood what he meant...by next year i should have watched and read enough about it to at least keep it all alive (i think)
Good video, thanks for making it clear that no honey was dripping before, at the end you show that some frames still had honey in the bottom that bees can't get to it, don't forget to address that situation on your next videos.
Regarding flow hive marketing about it don't bothering bees when draining the honey you show the opposite, it does bother a lot the bees, having bees outside for hours means that something really bad is going on, if honey did really drip inside you could lose bees and even the queen.
My experience with harvesting honey with extractor or crush and strain never had bees clustering outside for hours, just some angry bees but that's normal with defensive bees like we have here.
Finally about economics, you got lots of honey but no new wax from it, wax can also be sold for a good price and is healthy for the bees to make wax.
That dripping statement was for you Paulo! :) AS for the wax, I don't use it anyway and still have my other hives for that purpose if ever I need some. Remember, it takes a pound of honey to produce an ounce of wax. All interesting and thanks for commenting.
Say you don't extract any of their reserve honey, do the bees consume it all at the end of the winter? A weird part of me feels bad for taking away their hard work to prepare themselves for winter.
Hi Renee, that's a great question and what I personally do, is tend to leave more than they need on in the fall and after winter has passed just at the beginning of the spring nectar/honey flow, I will take off remaining honey from the previous year. It's interesting that old frames of honey are often ignored by the bees when another nectar collecting cycle begins, they use the new honey stores first. BUT, with honey bees, there will always be colonies that have their own set of rules. If you want to be safe and not starve your bees, take the surplus in the spring. Some keepers don't like that practice as some honey tends to crystalize or "candy" in the cells and can't be drained or spun out. I pull solidified honey supers and set up feeding stations with them away from the hives. They will clean them up and you can then put them back in service for another nectar flow.
Renee European honeybees are a species which are well documented for producing far, far more honey than the colony requires. In comparison to other species of bee, the honeybee produces a magnitude of honey greater in comparison to the size of the insect and colony.
It is the reason this particular insect became an excellent source for farming honey by civilisations over thousands of years.
Comparing traditional methods with the Flow Hive method is great. You have a new fan.
Thank you Cathy :)
Hi Everyone! I demonstrated a SECOND extraction with this hive and experienced somewhat different results. You can view that video here ua-cam.com/video/GdYSNuAHigs/v-deo.html Almost no leaking the second time activating the same frames.
So what are the lack of the Flow Hive? How I can improve it?
Hi Mauro, I have no suggested improvements at this time.
So I can buy that Flow Give it works very well ! What about the plastic inner? Should that be some other material?
Hi Mauro, I personally can't imagine any other material working better than food grade plastic, bees have always accepted plastic frame materials, plastic feeders, and various other plastic components, this is the first time the entire cell has been plastic. Since the parts have to move in order to function and they are already very expensive, I can't imagine another material working as well.
but why is so expensive this plastic?
it's more expensive than entire wood box?
Thank you for narrating! So easy to watch and listen to, excellent. The captions were terrible at best.
The largest room in the world, is the "room" for improvement :) So glad you like this, and thanks for taking time to comment!
29:10 Suddenly remembered of the following quran verse when he says about different colors of honey from same hive, I wonder how Amazing and Miraculous wonderful creatures the honey bees are.
Quran :
And your Lord inspired to the bee, "Take for yourself among the mountains, houses, and among the trees and [in] that which they construct.
Then eat from all the fruits and follow the ways of your Lord laid down [for you]." There emerges from their bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing for people. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.
Al Quran 16:68,69. Chapter: The Bee
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This is very interesting! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻🙏🏻
huh! well i didnt mean to watch a half hour long video about bees, but it was.... super informative, and as someone who only knows the barest about beekeeping, it was still captivating and easy to understand... yay. :D
I'm so glad you enjoyed it :) thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
I’m out of the honey business lol, but into bees 😂
By far the best video ive seen regarding these flow frame hives. My gosh I cant wait to get mine and order my bees! I absolutely LOVE watching them and I'm STOKED it has WINDOWS TO WATCH THEM😄😆 I think i will go get a buncha flower bulbs tomorrow and stick here and there all over my place for them. Wonder what flowers they like best that bloom longer..🤔
Fields of white clover would feed the bees through an entire summer... flowers that have a short bloom cycle, or that don't produce much nectar will be largely ignored by the bees.
7:52 Bee flying in ear simulator
Lol wear headphones
Thank-you so much for your input on the flow hive.As a beginner I'm struggling to find members in the local bee club to get exited about this product ( their way or the high way) and so your feedback is most helpful and much needed.Thanks again!
You're very welcome. I'm happy that it helped with your flowhive discussions at your bee club. Don't be discouraged, there are some old timers or even new ones with locked down ideas on how bees should be managed. Bee keeping seems to attract some very critical individuals who often seem to think that what they learn first is best and there the discussion ends. Welcome!
and now just send us 500.00 for a starter's model and up to 1,000 for the complete set up!
The number one complaint about them is definitely the price. But they don't have anything up to 1,000 but definitely they run up to 800 for the FH2.
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Well ya gotta pay attention to key words such as me saying "and up to 1,000 for the complete set up" whereby the key word is "complete" since the 800.00 for the FH2 IS NOT the final price since there is a 50.00 dollar shipping cost as well as the 800.00 will not get you everything needed to completely do what it takes all the way to the end where the user is then harvesting honey and so why I said 1,000 for the complete set up :o)
@@get-the-lead-out.4593 TROLL ALERT lol money for guns though ;) my Volkswagon cost me "up to" 50K! roflmao this is why i never post videos on YT Mr dunn you are a very patient individual!!!!
Enjoying the narration. You have a good voice for that. Much better than the text!
Thank you, I'm trying to narrate more often... much appreciated!
I was today years old when I found out bees don't sleep.
They do sleep individually, but, there is always someone awake and something going on in the hive :)
This was a great video. You answered several of my questions and I have been following Flow Hive for about three years. Thanks Fred.
You are very welcome Donavan!
click on the setting button right bottom of the video player, click on the speed. make it 1.5 or 2. you welcome
What?!!! (';').. that's awesome! I never knew that... thanks!
hay dude please dont mind you talk little slow but awesome videos.. carry on
A marvellous video, thankyou for taking the time to explain things for non-beekeepers!
You are very welcome!
Thank you for sharing and being such a great teacher! It is hard to ask any questions when you are so thorough. I hope I can catch a live Q & A soon!
Thank you so much!
Hey Frederick, I just wanted to say thanks so much for taking the time to make these videos. I really appreciate them and my kids love them as well. Keep up the great work!
Hi Nick! Thank you so much and also thank your children! I'm glad the videos are being appreciated by all ages. Have a great weekend!
I have never been into bee keeping or anything of the sort but I stumbled across your videos. They are very informative and interesting. Not boring at all and Im enjoying learning about bees, bee keeping and honey collecting. I dont dare try it lol, but I enjoy watching your videos. :)
HI Lilac, thank you so much, that's a wonderful compliment and a great start to my day :)
I'm planning to start up a hive. And super glade i came across this video. This flow product looks like a wonderful set up. Already looking at the web site! Thank you for your up load!
Hi Alicia, thank you and if you do buy one, please use my $50.00 discount link :) I am officially addicted to the flow system :)
I just have one more question. Where did you get your bees? What company?
The bees in this video are the BeeWeaver Survivor/Varroa Resistant/Hygienic bees from Texas :)
That was very cool, thanks for teaching me about bees and honey production. I have to say however the scale brought back memories of my youth.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your videos are very good and I enjoy the narration. Seems like this method is much less disturbing to the colony.
Thank you, and for honey removal, it definitely is easier on them as well as the keeper.
Just bought my first flow hive, your video and discussion was EXCELLENT, thanks. I live near Sacramento Ca and have 2 hives. Processing the frames is always a challenge, I will install everything in the spring (to close to the end of this year.Thanks again
Hi Mandy, I'm so glad my videos have helped you make a decision. With traditional processing, I have a hard time putting aside enough time to do it and the days just get away from me. Being able to drain off even just a couple of flowframes can prevent my colonies from becoming honey-bound and I can just stand there sipping cappuccino :) I am very happy with it!