Lynn's Monster Hive
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- New beekeeper finds success with this monster hive! I had the chance to assist Lynn, my Hives for Heroes Mentee, as she inspected her amazing honey bee hive that we sent her home with in the Endurahive equipment from Greg @NaturesImageFarmGregBurns. It was so much fun to witness Lynn experiencing success!
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Beautiful colony of bees! Awesome job Lynn! I want my bees to look like that when I get started!
Yes a wonderful colony of bees. Good luck with your bee adventures!
Great job Bruce, looks like she will have the fever for a long time. HFH!!
Way to go Lynn!! You’re an outstanding Mentor Bruce, thanks for serving those who’ve served our country. Looks like the bees live their Endurahive Wax Dipped equipment & Puracell foundation!
Yep so far they are doing well and very happy! Thanks for checking on my friend and for helping make this happen!
Absolutely excited for Lynn!
Hello Lynn, they a booming😁congratulations.
I think ventilation would helps a lot with bearing.
Amazing hive!!!..I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a beekeeper working bees in hospital scrubs but what ever works!!😂😂
You would be amazed at how many times I have worked my bees after work in my scrubs. Don’t always have time to go home and change! Sometimes trying to squeeze every minute out do the day.
As we say in Massachusetts....MONSTA! hive!
Yes. It’s a good one so far!
Awesome hive, really calm bees.
Bruce thank you for sharing and taking the time to give back to the community. Lynn is lucky to have you as a mentor. Lynn you going to get you some honey . :)
happy for lynn seems as she deserves a good honey crop,,
Yes she is doing well and deserves success.
Congratulations Lynn, what an awesome colony of bees. Kaymon forgot one thing, great queens, dead mites, good nutrition and a fantastic mentor. Great video Bruce, thank you my friend.
Thanks!
Lynn is like a baby with a new play toy . Congratulations you an your bee are doing great. Bruce thanks for the update on this colony. Thanks
Yes she is. She is have a great time with these bees.
That's Great 👍 😊
Amazing video!
Awesome hive!
Way to go
i think the best option is to extract those filled frames so that the bee can get back some built combs. For a hive that strong built comb is a gem to have to help hold off swarm impulse when they start running out of usable space to put away food.
Great plan. She actually did extract that honey and now has some beautiful liquid gold honey. Exciting stuff!
Are all Hawaiian queens that gentle or only that particular gene source? I hadn't heard people talking about those before. But it sounds interesting. Just having the reassurance of something gentle would be very nice, since many of us live in Africanized areas where... its not common but some africanized gene exposure is possible.
I am not sure about other Hawaiian queens. Have only ever ordered from this source. Heintzelman Apiaries. Have been impressed so far.
WOW! Nice colony, Lynn! Would you look at all that honey! You're doing great!!!
Thank you for helping her, Bruce.
Thanks for tuning in. It has been fun!
Nice population of bees from what I guess was basically a new 5 frame nuc plus a new Hawaiian queen put into deep boxes with drawn comb and foundation. The Endura Hive and Puracell foundation looks great Greg and Bruce. Yes I would also take those mostly capped deep honey frames off to be extracted and replace with more foundation. They seemed like they would be farm fair festival quality in an one frame observation viewing box with a blue ribbon attached to it! Wonder if they needed a little more ventilation with so many bees on the outside of her lower boxes. An upper entrance maybe? Great brood patterns and hive disposition within the colony. Would have been nice to see the queen, if she was marked, and a couple of milk larvae frames with eggs too. God job Lynn and to all those who were involved in getting such a terrific looking hive and bunch of honeybees to her in this particular moment of the season. Thanks for sharing and filming this adventure. :) 🐝
Thanks for checking in. I actually reached out to Lynn after the fact to recommend she stagger the top box forward just a bit like I do on my hives when queen excluders are in place. That will hopefully help with ventilation. Lynn was able to harvest 60 pounds of honey this past weekend. Very cool!
Id drop 2 to 3 starter strips between broob, and take frames removed and combine with weaker hive , shes fixing to have probably 30-50k more bees. Wow what a great hive. Probably vent the lid too if nectar flow still good.and take that feeder out. Definitely extract honey and put box back on
She was able to extract already and ended up with 60 pounds of honey. Not sure if it all cabe from this hive or if she got a little from others too. Nice honey pull. She is doing a good job.
Holy cow that thing is HUGE. And not only that, they look pretty calm too (so far...)
Yes. So far they seem to be very good bees and check the attitude and productivity box.
😲... that is amazing
Wow! Such calm bees & they are going gangbusters 😁
Yes they are doing well so far!
Thanks...
Fabulous!!
That’s awesome Bruce!!! Thanks!
Thanks for tuning in Rodney!
Good job Lynn! That’s a great looking colony of bee. I love the way you have the boxes painted.
Love, love, love this!!! Great work!
Yes! It’s been very fun!!!
That is great Lynn!! What a honey haul! And the queen is rocking!
Nice but why a feeder in the bottom, making sugar honey? Need more room to lay so replace the feeder!
A lot of people keep there feeder in the colony so they do not have to keep up with them and store another piece of equipment.
@@kathyhathaway8823 Should remove and clean with 10% bleach to kill the mold inside for healthy bees so trade it with the new frame your storing A?
No way that anyone would pull all of those off to feed, just storage
@@stevenaamos That`s obvios but you must maximize production!
Good point and definitely wouldn’t get to take it out. Could remove it but it has worked out ok.
Nice video Bruce. We are trying to get more mentors like you for our bee club. Everyone seems to busy to do it. Great to see you got to your 25,000 subscriber goal!!!
Thanks for checking in guys. I can’t mentor many but it has been fun working with Lynn.
Awesome looking hive! Way to go Lynn!
Way to go!! Such a strong colony looks fantastic 👏
Very Impressive Lynn. Congratulations from the UK. Great Video Bruce.
Thanks for checking in from across the pond!
That is so awesome 👍, very good flow this season, I’m in st Augustine, how would I
get some Tupelo honey, or does Lynn ship any? Always super great video’s 👍🇺🇸
I am not sure Lynn ships honey. She is just getting started. Si dar she is doing a great job! Fun times…
Bruce I was wondering with the honey stick machine that you've got do you get much use out of that? Do you think it's worth the money I think it's very expensive you gotta make a heck of a lot of honey sticks to recoup your initial invesmith your thoughts
Yeah I think it’s worth it. If you don’t have a lot to make I would get the second machine. It works well. But for a lot of sticks the first one does ok. There is a learning curve for sure but I think it’s worth it. Have an order for 300 I need to get done over the next couple of days!
Beautiful ❤
wonderful!! Would you at this time have taken out the feeder? room for an extra frame or two?
Could have but chose not to. They should be fine. One more frame in the bottom box will not make a huge difference in my opinion.
Good job lynn.
I love her decorated boxes, they make me smile! Great bees and wholey moley there is a ton of them!
Yes. Very cool and you’re right…lots of bees!
5 gallon bucket on average a really good one a little bit more than that
Absolutely!
When does the tallow start blooming?
It is beginning to bloom now.
Hey Bruce, why not remove the feeder
Could have but not really necessary IMO. Hopefully she will be able to use it if/when the bees need to be fed.
Looks like that hive needs a vented lid
I forgot to recommend that when I was there but later messaged her and suggested she stagger the boxes.
If someone say, Tupelo honey !
Yep! She says there are Tupelo trees in those woods behind her house.
Wow that is an extremely healthy colony, mine are getting super heavy after I did my splits, some of them are ready for another deep after just 4 weeks after splits, they have been super productive after the spring flowers and cherry blossom.
Very cool. Sounds like they are doing great!!!
@@brucesbees Oh they are and this year it seems they all are, the massive beds of wild flowers around the garden may have something to do with it.
I also have some massive lavender beds that are due up any time now, they produce my best flavoured honey.
That is awesome. Hope you continue to have a great year!
That's a great story
Yeah it’s been fun.