I'm putting strips and caging queens these days. Never earlier. But the plants give the timing..and it's time. Now I can go fishing for 25 days until they replace the brood with bee bread and pollen. Maybe even a deep of honey if I'm lucky. We'll see.. l could find two deeps of pollen and no honey to extract. But I think with her in cage and no excluder they will collect some mint and black berry before is gone completely. Nothing can surprise me anymore. Hope you get some from yours
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 l already collected some pollen.. now l will let them collect the last before summer so they get enough for that first batch of brood when they start again. I collect a lot of propolis from now to September. But if you work like me with brood breaks and bees getting old it's important to not over work them. Propolis is not easy for them to collect.. that's why old bees do it. We have a market for pollen and propolis but there are rules. No monoculture pollen and no propolis scraped off the frames. Only trapped or from a big hole.. clean. Many sell propolis tincture , jars with all three products in. It's a good market.. people here use a lot.. it's regarded as a medicine. I'm blabbering like always. You need to teach them people about the benefits of a spoon per day every day
@@researcherAmateur I would like to hit some of those markets, but I am having a hard time just getting what I have to done. just keep working at it, I will be there in time. growing and making queens and equipment is eating all my time
Awesome
I knew if I didnt get pictures, you wouldnt believe me
Thanks Harris.👍
Welcome!
I'm putting strips and caging queens these days. Never earlier. But the plants give the timing..and it's time. Now I can go fishing for 25 days until they replace the brood with bee bread and pollen. Maybe even a deep of honey if I'm lucky. We'll see.. l could find two deeps of pollen and no honey to extract. But I think with her in cage and no excluder they will collect some mint and black berry before is gone completely. Nothing can surprise me anymore.
Hope you get some from yours
It would be nice to get some honey this year. I have some with too much pollen in them now, I need to get my pollen traps working and on them
@@harrisjoubertwithsleepycre1924 l already collected some pollen.. now l will let them collect the last before summer so they get enough for that first batch of brood when they start again. I collect a lot of propolis from now to September. But if you work like me with brood breaks and bees getting old it's important to not over work them. Propolis is not easy for them to collect.. that's why old bees do it. We have a market for pollen and propolis but there are rules. No monoculture pollen and no propolis scraped off the frames. Only trapped or from a big hole.. clean. Many sell propolis tincture , jars with all three products in. It's a good market.. people here use a lot.. it's regarded as a medicine. I'm blabbering like always. You need to teach them people about the benefits of a spoon per day every day
@@researcherAmateur I would like to hit some of those markets, but I am having a hard time just getting what I have to done. just keep working at it, I will be there in time. growing and making queens and equipment is eating all my time