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Online Ben Framed

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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #20 on: July 26, 2019, 06:55:33 pm »
Nice !! Congratulations 🎈
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #21 on: July 26, 2019, 11:29:44 pm »
Quote from: The15thMember on July 26, 2019, 03:06:19 pm
I got almost 6 qts. of sourwood from the shallow I pulled.  Many of the frames were not fully drawn, but all but one of them were fully capped.  It is absolutely gorgeous, delicious honey.   :tongue:  Here's a picture of a jar.  The camera makes the color a little more golden than it is in real life.  It's light honey, not overly viscous, and it has sort of a lavender-colored undertone.  It has none of that heavy clover honey taste.


Just send that quart to me and I will pour half into another container and send the rest to Mr Van haa haa J/K LOL
Enjoy your honey!
Phillip
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #22 on: July 27, 2019, 12:30:01 am »
Quote from: Ben Framed on July 26, 2019, 11:29:44 pm
Quote from: The15thMember on July 26, 2019, 03:06:19 pm
I got almost 6 qts. of sourwood from the shallow I pulled.  Many of the frames were not fully drawn, but all but one of them were fully capped.  It is absolutely gorgeous, delicious honey.   :tongue:  Here's a picture of a jar.  The camera makes the color a little more golden than it is in real life.  It's light honey, not overly viscous, and it has sort of a lavender-colored undertone.  It has none of that heavy clover honey taste.


Just send that quart to me and I will pour half into another container and send the rest to Mr Van haa haa J/K LOL
Enjoy your honey!
Phillip
Hmmm. . .  Why is it that you want me to send a jar to you, and then have you send some to Mr. Van, when I could just as easily send Mr. Van some myself?  I think you have designs to keep all the honey for yourself, both your half of the jar, and Mr. Van?s!   :cheesy:
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #23 on: July 27, 2019, 03:51:29 am »
Wow, 15th!  That's very nice honey!
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #24 on: July 27, 2019, 07:50:01 am »
Quote from: The15thMember on July 27, 2019, 12:30:01 am
Quote from: Ben Framed on July 26, 2019, 11:29:44 pm
Quote from: The15thMember on July 26, 2019, 03:06:19 pm
I got almost 6 qts. of sourwood from the shallow I pulled.  Many of the frames were not fully drawn, but all but one of them were fully capped.  It is absolutely gorgeous, delicious honey.   :tongue:  Here's a picture of a jar.  The camera makes the color a little more golden than it is in real life.  It's light honey, not overly viscous, and it has sort of a lavender-colored undertone.  It has none of that heavy clover honey taste.


Just send that quart to me and I will pour half into another container and send the rest to Mr Van haa haa J/K LOL
Enjoy your honey!
Phillip
Hmmm. . .  Why is it that you want me to send a jar to you, and then have you send some to Mr. Van, when I could just as easily send Mr. Van some myself?  I think you have designs to keep all the honey for yourself, both your half of the jar, and Mr. Van?s!   :cheesy:

😁😁😁.   Why member, How could you think such a thing....😁😁😁 LOL.  .  I would not leave my buddy out, It would give me a good excuse to make a visit... I have wound up with 5 gallons also, (regular honey, no sour wood), and wasn?t trying for honey this year, splits was my goal. This is encouraging as next season I will set aside a few hives just for honey and splitting the rest.
Phillip
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #25 on: July 27, 2019, 10:46:27 am »
>I have wound up with 5 gallons also, (regular honey, no sour wood), and wasn?t trying for honey this year, splits was my goal. This is encouraging as next season I will set aside a few hives just for honey and splitting the rest.
Phillip

Be careful.  That's what I said a few years ago and I now have just under 90 hives. :wink:
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #26 on: July 28, 2019, 07:41:07 pm »
Member - congratulations, that looks beautiful!
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #27 on: July 29, 2019, 12:45:26 am »
Thanks for all the congratulations everyone.  :grin:

Quote from: Ben Framed on July 23, 2019, 12:37:11 am
How long does the Sourwood tree bloom?
You asked this a little while ago, Phillip. I?m going to venture to say that the trees in my area are almost done. There are still some flowers on them, and some of the bumble bees are still on them, but I don?t think there are enough open flowers or nectar remaining for the honey bees to be interested anymore. I say this because my bees are starting to act a little dearthy I think. They are getting a little testier, they?ve stopped drawing wax like they were, and they are checking out the old mushy blueberries on the blueberry bushes which I?m pretty sure is a sign of a dearth, since they?d be more interested in flowers if there were any.
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #28 on: July 29, 2019, 01:29:35 am »
Thanks for the information Member. I bet that your family is proud of you and your bees 🐝 for bringing in that good honey!! 😊😁
Phillip
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #29 on: August 26, 2019, 11:37:17 am »

Evidently there are a few more trees around me. I found two more on my neighbor yesterday while cutting cedar. Knocked a limb out of one. Once I saw the seeds it jogged my memory some. I?ve seen these before around. I just didn?t know what they were. Everywhere I go now since I got bees I?m looking at what?s blooming or what already had. And what?s fixing to.
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #30 on: August 26, 2019, 05:35:18 pm »
Quote from: The15thMember on July 26, 2019, 03:06:19 pm
I got almost 6 qts. of sourwood from the shallow I pulled.  Many of the frames were not fully drawn, but all but one of them were fully capped.  It is absolutely gorgeous, delicious honey.   :tongue:  Here's a picture of a jar.  The camera makes the color a little more golden than it is in real life.  It's light honey, not overly viscous, and it has sort of a lavender-colored undertone.  It has none of that heavy clover honey taste.


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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #31 on: August 26, 2019, 06:38:49 pm »
Just to follow up, I ended up pulling a couple more sourwood frames from another hive, and so I ended up with 10 qts. of sourwood for this year.  Not bad for my first honey harvest!   :grin:
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Re: Sourwood honey.
« Reply #32 on: August 26, 2019, 10:24:14 pm »
Quote from: The15thMember on August 26, 2019, 06:38:49 pm
Just to follow up, I ended up pulling a couple more sourwood frames from another hive, and so I ended up with 10 qts. of sourwood for this year.  Not bad for my first honey harvest!   :grin:

That was awesome!
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