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Offline J-grow

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Looking forward to this weekend!
« on: July 26, 2016, 10:17:49 pm »
I plan on pulling frames Friday and extracting on Saturday. This will be the second time I have robbed from 2 of the hives since setting them up in the beginning of April and the first time for the other 2 hives I set up in may.

 I will be using a fume board for the first time on two of them and putting bee escapes on the other 2 and trying that method for the first time also.

Nearest I can tell I will be pulling two 9 frame supers, two 10 frame supers and one 10 frame deep!

If all goes well the house will be a mess and my friends and family will have a 5 year supply of honey!

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Re: Looking forward to this weekend!
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2016, 10:25:45 pm »
Here's wishing you the best, but being in Florida, be VERY careful with escape boards and SHB.  They can totally slime a super in 3 days. Maybe sooner.
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Re: Looking forward to this weekend!
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2016, 10:41:52 pm »
Wow thanks for that tip I did not know that!  I am planning on putting all the wet frames back in the hives right before dark and am hoping I don't start a robbing nightmare the next day!
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Re: Looking forward to this weekend!
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2016, 12:35:51 am »
Putting the super back on just before dusk is a good plan. Bees don't fly at night but they continue to work in the hive. By the next day the bees will have sucked up a lot of the remaining honey.
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Re: Looking forward to this weekend!
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2016, 03:56:29 pm »
Thank you I will update after the results are in!
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Re: Looking forward to this weekend!
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2016, 01:47:57 pm »
Ok I pulled a total of 30 medium and 10 deep frames today all fully capped.  The fishers bee quick worked extremely fast and well.

I did not try the bee escapes my plan go derailed a bit but the fume board as I said was very impressive!

I will start crankin with the 100$ spinner this evening and probably have a sore shoulder tomorrow.

One of the 9 frame supers that was loaded last week with fully capped honey only had 1/2 the amount in it this time so I only grabbed two frames?

I guess they moved it down to the new deep I gave them or ate it ......... Not sure?
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