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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Tornado hit yesterday
« Last post by Occam on May 12, 2024, 11:46:37 pm »That's progress, a good step forward
I peeked inside the portals on my hives and saw condensation in the top two boxes, I didn't open the lower box because there were some ant cruising around and they have the bottom one sealed up. Anyhow, is that condensation a problem? I was cool last night and warmed up quicky this morning. I have not checked back to see if it's still there but I will.Thats normal when you're feeding 1:1 sugar syrup. It's a problem in the fall, thats why 2:1 is recommended for fall feeding. As the stores dry out it creates condensation. When your colony builds up to the configuration you want to overwinter in, 2 deeps or 3 mediums in your area, you can stop feeding and add a honey super. Right now, when you inspect you are seeing stored sugar syrup, not nectar or honey.
So I think, and someone chime in if this is wrong, But the higher the sucrose content the quicker the honey will set.Glucose, not sucrose.
Karmella Harrass interview:That guy does crack me up. He looks like Danny Bonaducci.
https://youtu.be/xmBWk_7jdAQ
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