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Offline Marion

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The Smell of Honey
« on: September 02, 2014, 05:22:23 pm »
I can smell honey from my bee hive in many places around the yard. The bees have been extremely busy for about two or three weeks. I looked in yesterday only going down to the second deep. A week ago I had exchanged the last frames on each side with the next to the last because they were new foundation and had not been touched. I sprayed a little sugar water on them. When I looked in yesterday all the frames in the second deep had been drawn out and mostly filled with honey. I feel like they will have a good winter.

The medium super on top new foundation, has not been touched yet. I sprayed the middle two frames with sugar water and I'm hoping they will move up there soon. I hope to get a little honey. :)
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2014, 05:36:31 pm »
That's good news Marion, I also love to get the wiff of the hives when I'm moving sprinklers nsuch. I'm feeding on hive in hopes of getting some pulled frames that I can store over the winter in case I need them in the spring. I'll be checking my hives again this week  ;D
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2014, 06:45:33 pm »
I'll be throwing a small honey super on top of hive 3 based, in part, on the inspector's recommendation... but all I have is virgin foundation which they may, or may, decide to draw out.  As much as I'd love to think I might get honey... anything I get will stay for the bees.  I'm also going to continue to feed them as long as I can to try to help them out.  They all seem to be sucking the syrup down again... whatever flow they had must've dried up.  I suppose I'll just have to mark those frames as feeder frames for next winter, too so as not to mix up syrup-honey & nectar honey...???  would that be the "normal" thing to do?
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2014, 09:13:58 pm »
Sounds reasonable.
I can smell the honey in a few of my yards as soon as I open the door of my truck.  :yes:
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2014, 09:41:06 pm »
One of the four hives I have is soo rich in scent, very pungent and sweet... heady even
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2014, 10:12:28 pm »
"I can smell honey from my bee hive in many places around the yard."

an awesome aroma!  the smell of honey!

marion and capn.....i wouldn't expect too much in the way of bees drawing much of any foundation this time of year.  you both started late, the likelihood of harvesting any honey is pretty minimal.  capn, if you are feeding your bees, and they are storing syrup and honey, just leave these on, or feed back to them at some later date, even in spring.
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2014, 03:59:58 am »
I know we probably won't get any honey for us because the bees needs come first. We can always dream.
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2014, 07:38:23 am »
Marion,

I can smell my hives as I move around the beeyard as well. In fact I've just pulled my honey supers last Friday and extracted all of them in my utility room. My late summer honey is a mixture, primarily, of Buckwheat and Jake Soybeans, and our utility room smells so good right now.

Hang in there, you enjoy the taste of your own honey in time. Nothing like it.
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2014, 07:55:30 am »
Marion, keep in mind that you don't have to harvest a full super at one time. One medium frame of capped honey can be cut out and strained. It will give you approx. a quart of honey, which may be enough for just the two of you for the winter.
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2014, 10:32:09 am »
Yes, iddee, I would be happy with one frame.
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2014, 02:31:26 pm »
What Iddee said Marion. I took out two frames and got 2 quarts of honey  ;D
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2014, 04:22:52 pm »
Jen, Do you have an extractor?
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Re: The Smell of Honey
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2014, 09:48:43 pm »
I have access to one, it's a crank
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