Be Doc, You correctly recommend priming bare wood before painting. I agree wholeheartedly. In this video you sanded the old boxes, but then failed to prime them before painting. Weather raw or sanded, I think the wood should be primed. Maybe this was a video editing faux pas, but I suggest you revise this one to be more consistent. By the way, yours is first truly eye catching and dare I say stunning apiary paint color and color combination I have ever seen. Bravo.
Hi Lester. I appreciate your candor, thank you 😉 and encouragement. And yes, some of those boxes definitely needed priming before painting again. Perhaps a task for next winter 😅. I do aim for consistency and appreciate your support of it as well!🐝
Good information as always. I am a pretty slow learner, and I was wondering if you could come out here to Oklahoma and demonstrate this for me, repetitively, until I get the hang of it and try it for myself?
I use white wash. You can use grout coloring in white wash. There is a lichen that grows on the lime bee's like. It contains oxalic acid. Is killing that fungus a good thing? I have many mushrooms around the property and notice bee's on them. I build Lazutin hives from my old scaffolding boards I use for masonry work. I prefer to freeze and char my used hives and frames. Heard bee's like lightning struck trees. I glue any crack or crevice because hive beetles. I put foam and nail boards around my hives, because bears and cold winters. My hives don't get move and are on tall stands. I use floor entrances. Central U.P. winters are no joke. The formation of naturally occurring calcium oxalate patinas on certain limestone and marble statues and monuments has been proposed to be caused by the chemical reaction of the carbonate stone with oxalic acid secreted by lichen or other microorganisms. Many soil fungus species secrete oxalic acid, resulting in greater solubility of metal cations, increased availability of certain soil nutrients, and can lead to the formation of calcium oxalate crystals. The Aspergillus genus consists of common molds found throughout the environment within soil and water, on vegetation, in fecal matter, on decomposing matter, and suspended in the air produces oxalic acid and grows on bee crap. There are plants high in oxalic acid too. An ounce of prevention. If you give bees plants high in oxalic it does help. Maybe plant some thyme too.
Hey Eli, that sounds like a really neat way to paint boxes while using circumstances to your bees' advantage. I agree that fungi are beneficial to honey bees. Mushrooms being the fruit of the fungus, there must be some kind of difference between that and the spores in the mold on frames. Mold on frames however is harmful to honey bee respiratory systems. I think that allowing honey bees to forage and collect the beneficial aspects of fungi is the way to go and NOT putting moldy frames in their homes (boxes) is also a way for us to keep them healthy. What is the base of your whitewash?
Great overview! At some point would you go back and prime the boxes again? That second box down looked like it had almost no paint and it was raw wood again. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Brian! Yes, that darker box had originally been painted with a milk-based paint that has slowly worn off. Technically the yellow paint that I used has primer in it so when it comes time to paint it again, I will just use yellow again. Thanks for your question!🐝
I've painted the inside and the outside of my boxes for 25 years. My mentor who was a pollinator told me to do it that way. It makes the box last longer. Latex paint. I still have those boxes in the apiaries today. Other boxes that I've either bought and didn't paint the insides don't last seven years. They rot out. Wood needs to be primed and painted on the inside and the outside. If not the warm moist air from the inside will bubble the paint off on the outside. Bee propolis helps the inside, but I've always had better success painting all around.
Thanks for the painting tips. I noticed you did not wear a dust mask when you sanded the old paint. It is not good for you to breathe in paint dust. Safety first, especially since a lot of people watching your videos don’t know about dust masks and you have a great opportunity to educate them.
"Complimentary colors" aye!?! The artist in you speaks. 😆
You’re the only person who’s ever gotten that right!!
Timely video for newer beekeepers getting started.
Kilz has a lime powder base that’s why it is anti fungal pretty neat
That’s awesome, I didn’t realize that. Thanks!🐝
Be Doc,
You correctly recommend priming bare wood before painting. I agree wholeheartedly. In this video you sanded the old boxes, but then failed to prime them before painting. Weather raw or sanded, I think the wood should be primed. Maybe this was a video editing faux pas, but I suggest you revise this one to be more consistent. By the way, yours is first truly eye catching and dare I say stunning apiary paint color and color combination I have ever seen. Bravo.
Hi Lester. I appreciate your candor, thank you 😉 and encouragement. And yes, some of those boxes definitely needed priming before painting again. Perhaps a task for next winter 😅. I do aim for consistency and appreciate your support of it as well!🐝
Good information as always. I am a pretty slow learner, and I was wondering if you could come out here to Oklahoma and demonstrate this for me, repetitively, until I get the hang of it and try it for myself?
I understand your learning challenges. I am afraid that painting is much too complicated to teach in person.
@@thehivedoctor13 touché'....lol
@topsoutdooradventures 😂
Great info! Thanks
You bet!🐝
Very nice video!
Thank you Famous Person! 🐝😁
I use white wash. You can use grout coloring in white wash. There is a lichen that grows on the lime bee's like. It contains oxalic acid. Is killing that fungus a good thing? I have many mushrooms around the property and notice bee's on them. I build Lazutin hives from my old scaffolding boards I use for masonry work. I prefer to freeze and char my used hives and frames. Heard bee's like lightning struck trees. I glue any crack or crevice because hive beetles. I put foam and nail boards around my hives, because bears and cold winters. My hives don't get move and are on tall stands. I use floor entrances. Central U.P. winters are no joke. The formation of naturally occurring calcium oxalate patinas on certain limestone and marble statues and monuments has been proposed to be caused by the chemical reaction of the carbonate stone with oxalic acid secreted by lichen or other microorganisms. Many soil fungus species secrete oxalic acid, resulting in greater solubility of metal cations, increased availability of certain soil nutrients, and can lead to the formation of calcium oxalate crystals. The Aspergillus genus consists of common molds found throughout the environment within soil and water, on vegetation, in fecal matter, on decomposing matter, and suspended in the air produces oxalic acid and grows on bee crap. There are plants high in oxalic acid too. An ounce of prevention. If you give bees plants high in oxalic it does help. Maybe plant some thyme too.
Hey Eli, that sounds like a really neat way to paint boxes while using circumstances to your bees' advantage. I agree that fungi are beneficial to honey bees. Mushrooms being the fruit of the fungus, there must be some kind of difference between that and the spores in the mold on frames. Mold on frames however is harmful to honey bee respiratory systems. I think that allowing honey bees to forage and collect the beneficial aspects of fungi is the way to go and NOT putting moldy frames in their homes (boxes) is also a way for us to keep them healthy. What is the base of your whitewash?
Funny you mentioned that because there is a fungi that was discovered to attach to and kill varroa destructor mites.
@inharmonywithearth9982 Oh really?!
Great overview! At some point would you go back and prime the boxes again? That second box down looked like it had almost no paint and it was raw wood again. Thanks for sharing!
Hey Brian! Yes, that darker box had originally been painted with a milk-based paint that has slowly worn off. Technically the yellow paint that I used has primer in it so when it comes time to paint it again, I will just use yellow again. Thanks for your question!🐝
What about the bottom board? Do we paint all parts or leave the part where the bees live alone?
Yes, just paint everything except where the bees live! You got it🐝
How much paint and primers do you need for 6 mediums?
Hmmm, good question 🤔. I think a quart would possibly be enough. Idk for certain because I usually buy the two gallon primer and one gallon of color.
I've painted the inside and the outside of my boxes for 25 years. My mentor who was a pollinator told me to do it that way. It makes the box last longer. Latex paint. I still have those boxes in the apiaries today. Other boxes that I've either bought and didn't paint the insides don't last seven years. They rot out. Wood needs to be primed and painted on the inside and the outside. If not the warm moist air from the inside will bubble the paint off on the outside. Bee propolis helps the inside, but I've always had better success painting all around.
I was waiting you will say that: do not paint inside
How dummy beekeeper should be doesn’t know that!
Lol, someone listen this and like it
Thank you😉. You would be surprised at what beekeepers will do though😅🐝
Thanks for the painting tips. I noticed you did not wear a dust mask when you sanded the old paint. It is not good for you to breathe in paint dust. Safety first, especially since a lot of people watching your videos don’t know about dust masks and you have a great opportunity to educate them.
A very good point that hadn’t even crossed my mind while working. I even have a dust mask, thank you for the advice and reminder 😉🐝
It’s okay, he put his safety squints on.
🔍TH-cam for “The History Guy/Beekeeping”. Very interesting history and the comments are really sweet.