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Flow Frames could make beekeeping Profitable Again.
LazyBkpr:
Jack, I think you need to try one to truly get the full appreciation for it.
Aye! Are we going to take up a donation so we can collectively send Jack some plastic? :laugh:
brooksbeefarm:
:P :P :P Jack
riverbee:
keith........
i am with robo on the flow hives......
"If only things worked out as well as they looked on paper :P"
also, some folks who have never kept bees and bought into the flow hives thought they could assemble this, put it out in their yard and garden and magically get honey. i have spoken to several and the disappointment and investment made them not very happy. sad.
you are a well seasoned beekeeper, many of us are, and even those who are in the learning stages, have learned or know there is more to keeping bees and gathering honey...and the management involved.
i will stick to langstroths. i wish you well keith! you of all, would be able to successfully manage a flow hive!
apisbees:
That is the problem with the marketing of the system. It is not a flow hive but only a flow frames in a flow super. The Colony is just a standard hive, that needs to be ran like any other hive for 47 months of the year, Maybe more. At the Flow people price they are a great novelty item, at the Chinese knock off price they almost makes sense. If managed properly the less equipment needed, the value of honey used by the bees in wax production to draw out foundation and the cost of extraction equipment. You could get away with less lifting of heave supers, less sticky mess in the house, very little cleanup, little wax moth and hive beetle damage. I do think it is gimmick beekeeping but not a totally bad gimmick.
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