Thanks for your video’s. I am getting back in to Bee’s this year from the 60’s -70’s an have forgotten a lot . I am also from NC . Keep up your video’s thanks
More like about 12 lbs. I misspoke. 2:1 weighs between 11 and 12 lbs per gallon. In one gallon, there is about 3.6 lbs of water. We need to remove about 45% of that water to achieve 18.3% moisture content. In doing so, the overall weight is reduced to 9.24 lbs per gallon of syrup. Or in this case about 13.5 lbs of honey. This is just running math and does not account for loss from bees using up some as energy while processing. Just raw sugar calculations. Thanks for the catch.
I have 5 hives. I go through 25 pounds of sugar every 10 days using a 1:1 ratio. Sugar is getting more and more expensive. The more syrup, the more bees, the more bees, the more syrup you gotta make. It is the definition of insanity.
Great explanation. Getting back to backyard beekeeping after a few years. Thanks
Great to hear!
Thanks for your video’s. I am getting back in to Bee’s this year from the 60’s -70’s an have forgotten a lot . I am also from NC . Keep up your video’s thanks
Awesome.
Great Info
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Great information. Thanks for posting.
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I'm sorry, did you say bees will turn 1.5 gallons of syrup into 20 pounds of honey?????
More like about 12 lbs. I misspoke. 2:1 weighs between 11 and 12 lbs per gallon. In one gallon, there is about 3.6 lbs of water. We need to remove about 45% of that water to achieve 18.3% moisture content. In doing so, the overall weight is reduced to 9.24 lbs per gallon of syrup. Or in this case about 13.5 lbs of honey. This is just running math and does not account for loss from bees using up some as energy while processing. Just raw sugar calculations. Thanks for the catch.
I have 5 hives. I go through 25 pounds of sugar every 10 days using a 1:1 ratio. Sugar is getting more and more expensive. The more syrup, the more bees, the more bees, the more syrup you gotta make. It is the definition of insanity.
That’s funny right there. You can thicken the mix up, and they have a tendency to store and restrict the brood nest instead of making more bees.
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