NUC Follow Along Playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLbahx4WxwRgr1a2-5xPhE7Aoi8S0zIevy ...... BY THE WAY! I decided to feed 1 more quart of 1:1 sugar syrup to the bees this week. If there was no flow I would likely feed 3-4 quarts in a week with the bees looking like they do in this video. Our favorite hivetool, favorite books, and all kinds of other beekeeping tools & equipment that we use from Amazon can be found here: www.amazon.com/shop/tennessees-bees
I am in western Illinois, and this is my favorite bee keeping channel. As a first year bee keeper, I find the information easy to understand and beneficial. Thank you for your time and effort.
Right at the gitty-up you hit the big mistake button. This year I installed two packages into hives with lots of drawn comb. I put in each hive a mann lake internal feeder. The gallon one. That takes up two frames. Filled to the brim with 1 to 1 syrup. They filled every cell with syrup. Queens couldn't lay. Both failures. If your frames are foundation only, no drawn comb give syrup. If you give them drawn comb be sparingly and give as needed. If there's a flow, be skimpy!!!
I am a first year beekeeper. I have purchased 2 nucs, and caught 5 swarms this year after purchasing the equipment from a friend that ended up being two deadouts. I am having issues strengthening my swarms. They don't want to draw comb onmy foundation. I think that what I got in my original purchase was from Vevor. It may have had some parifon in it. I have recoated and am about to see what they will do with it now. This is a learning process for sure. I am a member of a local bee club, but everyone that's willing to help is so busy with their bee's that they little to no time to invest in me and mine. My nucs have a good brrod pattern, but look to be brood bound. With them not wanting to draw, the queen has little room to lay. Your video is giving me several good ideas on how to approach my to bought colonies. Thank You, and please keep the videos coming. You and I are in the same region, for the most part, and i utilize your timeline as mine also. Thank You for slowing down and keying on us newbies.
buy new foundation from a reputable source. when i was new, i tried to save and struggled. it’s more work and expense training to save and use older foundation than it is to just replace it. i’d also stay away from plastic frames. they provide more hiding places for wax moths and small hive beetles. also because they are fully wax coated, the bees draw out more bur comb on them.
@@Fred-ff6bv Thank you for the advice. This year is going to be a massive learning year for me. I heard Bob Binnie say thet beekeeping is 50% art and 50% science. He went on to define art as being knowledge gained over a long period of time. I took it that I will only have 50% of what I need to be successful in this. I am always up for a challenge though.
If the people who could mentor you are too busy to help you due to the honey flow.... offer to help them... You will learn the same, if not more, because you will see more hives and more situations. And they will willingly accept the help and in exchange they are going to give you lots of education! Win - Win!
Kamon , this is my first year keeping bees. I bought 2 nucs, and one of the queens is an egg laying machine! The other, not so much. I’ve fed both colonies 1:1 syrup, and the smaller colony has done exactly what you warned of - they have filled the brood area with syrup/nectar. Can you advise on what I can do to rectify my mistake? Thank you so much for this series, to be honest, all your content has been so valuable!
Last year I had a big issue with over drawn comb like that. I eventually had to pull a bunch of frames and then only extracted the over drawn portions.
This is my first year and i started with a package of bees. April 1 was the install date. other than that, what you got going on in this follow along series is exactly what mine is doing. Last wed. saw a queen cup but didnt smash it. I remarked the wueen for the third time. this time i put three coats of that marker on her opened it up today (sunday) found two additional queen cups, all empty. i found my queen and she seemed a bit smaller than last wed. very strange. and of course they cleaned the mark off of her again. so i guess i need to get something different to mark her with and throw these $10 markers in the trash. i added the 2nd box but forgot to put a frame of brood up there. did that last wed and today in the top box they have two more frames drawn out and there are fresh eggs in top box. queen was located in bottom box though. cant believe they keep cleaning the mark off of her.
Just installed 2 nucs last Saturday 5/11. One of them had all 5 frames totally filled with brood and food. I plan on checking them on Saturday and if all the new frames have foundation built out I’ll add a deep. Does that make sense? I do have a 1 gallon frame feeder in each hive with 1:1 syrup.
Hi Kamon from the UK. I know probably not the correct vid for the question but it's your most recent. We were talking about oxalic acid vaporisation and varroa mites and we were wondering with your contacts if anyone had counted mites in apiaries near Thyme fields and if the bees eating Thyme pollen have less mites on them. If so would a thyme pollen patty help against mites? A question for the experts in the world of varroa research.
Kamon. I feel like your first video is really import to the series. I want to learn your strategy for starting the nuc. But when I click in the playlist link, the first video is private and not accessible. Is there something I need to do differently?
Ok, now I'm confused, I've watched where some have 2 deeps and some just one. I've just started this year, I'm in wnc and have an 8 frame that filled 7 in the deep and I've added the first honey super. Do I need to do another deep instead?
Typically beekeepers run 2 deeps for brood for all of the season or most of the season. We do run in one deep brood chamber for 2 months during the honey season and then back to 2 chambers once honey supers are removed. This is a lot of work and involves splitting your bees and other things to keep them from swarming. I recommend 2 deeps to all new beekeepers and most beekeepers in general.
@@kamonreynolds thank you for the advice and keep the videos coming. You've been my main source of education on beekeeping which also makes it easier to follow along with you since you're right there in Tennessee and we have similar climates
NUC Follow Along Playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PLbahx4WxwRgr1a2-5xPhE7Aoi8S0zIevy
...... BY THE WAY! I decided to feed 1 more quart of 1:1 sugar syrup to the bees this week. If there was no flow I would likely feed 3-4 quarts in a week with the bees looking like they do in this video.
Our favorite hivetool, favorite books, and all kinds of other beekeeping tools & equipment that we use from Amazon can be found here: www.amazon.com/shop/tennessees-bees
Your bees are so pretty and I wanted to know what type they are. They look like Carniolan bees?
Great video. Thanks Kaymon
Great series. This is the stuff new beekeepers need to know. Thank you both for doing these videos. 🐝🐝
Thanks for saying so!
Man... you always get great shots of the eggs/larva in the cells! I wish my wife would help me with my videos lol!
Great video series! Excellent for the new beekeeper!
Hi Kamon! I have always loved your videos, and just wanted to say thank you for passing on your knowledge and experience.
I am in western Illinois, and this is my favorite bee keeping channel. As a first year bee keeper, I find the information easy to understand and beneficial. Thank you for your time and effort.
Great video, Kamon - and great-lookin' frames! 😃
This is so valuable! Thank you. Happy Mother's Day Laurel 😊
Kamon’s nucs are fantastic. I got four last year and they are BOOMING today!
Happy Mothers Day to Laurel
Happy Mother's Day! Great video! Just shared it with our club :-)
Right at the gitty-up you hit the big mistake button. This year I installed two packages into hives with lots of drawn comb. I put in each hive a mann lake internal feeder. The gallon one. That takes up two frames. Filled to the brim with 1 to 1 syrup. They filled every cell with syrup. Queens couldn't lay. Both failures. If your frames are foundation only, no drawn comb give syrup. If you give them drawn comb be sparingly and give as needed. If there's a flow, be skimpy!!!
🎉🎉Thank you Kamon and Laurel for the video. Happy Mothers Day
I am a first year beekeeper. I have purchased 2 nucs, and caught 5 swarms this year after purchasing the equipment from a friend that ended up being two deadouts. I am having issues strengthening my swarms. They don't want to draw comb onmy foundation. I think that what I got in my original purchase was from Vevor. It may have had some parifon in it. I have recoated and am about to see what they will do with it now. This is a learning process for sure. I am a member of a local bee club, but everyone that's willing to help is so busy with their bee's that they little to no time to invest in me and mine. My nucs have a good brrod pattern, but look to be brood bound. With them not wanting to draw, the queen has little room to lay. Your video is giving me several good ideas on how to approach my to bought colonies. Thank You, and please keep the videos coming. You and I are in the same region, for the most part, and i utilize your timeline as mine also. Thank You for slowing down and keying on us newbies.
buy new foundation from a reputable source. when i was new, i tried to save and struggled. it’s more work and expense training to save and use older foundation than it is to just replace it. i’d also stay away from plastic frames. they provide more hiding places for wax moths and small hive beetles. also because they are fully wax coated, the bees draw out more bur comb on them.
@@Fred-ff6bv Thank you for the advice. This year is going to be a massive learning year for me. I heard Bob Binnie say thet beekeeping is 50% art and 50% science. He went on to define art as being knowledge gained over a long period of time. I took it that I will only have 50% of what I need to be successful in this. I am always up for a challenge though.
If the people who could mentor you are too busy to help you due to the honey flow.... offer to help them... You will learn the same, if not more, because you will see more hives and more situations. And they will willingly accept the help and in exchange they are going to give you lots of education! Win - Win!
Thanks for the video!
Thank you for another great tutorial!
Thank you for the video
Great video!
Kamon , this is my first year keeping bees. I bought 2 nucs, and one of the queens is an egg laying machine! The other, not so much. I’ve fed both colonies 1:1 syrup, and the smaller colony has done exactly what you warned of - they have filled the brood area with syrup/nectar. Can you advise on what I can do to rectify my mistake?
Thank you so much for this series, to be honest, all your content has been so valuable!
Last year I had a big issue with over drawn comb like that. I eventually had to pull a bunch of frames and then only extracted the over drawn portions.
This is my first year and i started with a package of bees. April 1 was the install date. other than that, what you got going on in this follow along series is exactly what mine is doing. Last wed. saw a queen cup but didnt smash it. I remarked the wueen for the third time. this time i put three coats of that marker on her opened it up today (sunday) found two additional queen cups, all empty. i found my queen and she seemed a bit smaller than last wed. very strange. and of course they cleaned the mark off of her again. so i guess i need to get something different to mark her with and throw these $10 markers in the trash. i added the 2nd box but forgot to put a frame of brood up there. did that last wed and today in the top box they have two more frames drawn out and there are fresh eggs in top box. queen was located in bottom box though. cant believe they keep cleaning the mark off of her.
Just installed 2 nucs last Saturday 5/11. One of them had all 5 frames totally filled with brood and food.
I plan on checking them on Saturday and if all the new frames have foundation built out I’ll add a deep.
Does that make sense?
I do have a 1 gallon frame feeder in each hive with 1:1 syrup.
Hi Kamon from the UK. I know probably not the correct vid for the question but it's your most recent. We were talking about oxalic acid vaporisation and varroa mites and we were wondering with your contacts if anyone had counted mites in apiaries near Thyme fields and if the bees eating Thyme pollen have less mites on them. If so would a thyme pollen patty help against mites? A question for the experts in the world of varroa research.
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Kamon. I feel like your first video is really import to the series. I want to learn your strategy for starting the nuc. But when I click in the playlist link, the first video is private and not accessible. Is there something I need to do differently?
Let me see what is going on it should be available but you are the second to say that in the last handful of hours. Standby and thanks!
Ok, now I'm confused, I've watched where some have 2 deeps and some just one. I've just started this year, I'm in wnc and have an 8 frame that filled 7 in the deep and I've added the first honey super. Do I need to do another deep instead?
Typically beekeepers run 2 deeps for brood for all of the season or most of the season. We do run in one deep brood chamber for 2 months during the honey season and then back to 2 chambers once honey supers are removed. This is a lot of work and involves splitting your bees and other things to keep them from swarming. I recommend 2 deeps to all new beekeepers and most beekeepers in general.
@@kamonreynolds thank you for the advice and keep the videos coming. You've been my main source of education on beekeeping which also makes it easier to follow along with you since you're right there in Tennessee and we have similar climates
The first video says private. How do I gain access? I’m subscribed to your channel.
How Can I Remove Crystallized Honey In Frame, ? load of it ,
You can talk lol slow down
Thanks for the video 😊