Simple and effective. I have just purchased a small high quality cider press on sale to use after letting the combs drain for two days. I will report on it after I use it.
You might be rushing the process if you are still leaving honey. Keep stirring the cappings around in the bucket until they get so light that it feels like there isn’t anything left. It may take a few days. Thanks for watching!
I was curious to ask you how often do people just wait and pull honey in the spring? It would be less trouble for worrying about getting sugar water on in the fall. But also there might be an added problem with too much space for the bees to heat up... maybe?
The real issue is that bee populations decline as you move into fall and then winter. When there are no longer enough bees to patrol the honeycomb, the small hive beetles will feast. You’ll not only have no honey to harvest if that happens, but the bees will tend to abscond at a bad time of year. Then you lose the colony as well as the honey. In areas where it freezes in winter, some people do harvest left over honey in the spring. Here in South Florida we don’t have freezes to limit the propagation of small hive beetles so we need to remove excess honey more often.
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Good stuff‼️ Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Excellent
I’ll be doing that
Simple and effective. I have just purchased a small high quality cider press on sale to use after letting the combs drain for two days. I will report on it after I use it.
Good information about crush and strain method. I get the feeling of losing a lot of honey with this process but my bees love to do the clean up work.
You might be rushing the process if you are still leaving honey. Keep stirring the cappings around in the bucket until they get so light that it feels like there isn’t anything left. It may take a few days. Thanks for watching!
I was curious to ask you how often do people just wait and pull honey in the spring? It would be less trouble for worrying about getting sugar water on in the fall. But also there might be an added problem with too much space for the bees to heat up... maybe?
The real issue is that bee populations decline as you move into fall and then winter. When there are no longer enough bees to patrol the honeycomb, the small hive beetles will feast. You’ll not only have no honey to harvest if that happens, but the bees will tend to abscond at a bad time of year. Then you lose the colony as well as the honey. In areas where it freezes in winter, some people do harvest left over honey in the spring. Here in South Florida we don’t have freezes to limit the propagation of small hive beetles so we need to remove excess honey more often.