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Honey B Healthy Concentrate
Understudy:
--- Quote from: DCHoneybees on March 21, 2011, 11:52:47 am ---Made some myself last week with inspiration from your recipe and another from this forum.
Here is the link:
http://dchoneybees.blogspot.com/2011/03/test-run-of-homemade-honey-bee-healthy.html
Powerful stuff. Still running my blender in the dishwasher to remove the essence.
The bees do not seem to be taking this mix with the same enthusiasm as my general bee tea in my open feeding experiment. The jury remains in deliberations at this point as to the benefits. My next experiment will be to add some of the homemade potion to a bee tea solution as see if it improves take-up.
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I am glad you made the mix. I am sorry to hear it did not work as well for you. I have renamed mine Brendhan's Bee Crack. When I did a side by side non scientific study. The buckets in an open feeding with Bee Crack as compared to regular sugar water were empty two days faster.
My results have shown that it works well for me when there is not a flow on. If there is a flow then they tend to ignore it and the sugar water.
Please continue and let me know how it does in the mix with the tea.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
theriverhawk:
Made some....definitely had more similar consistency to actual HBH concentrate than other recipes.
Just curious as to thoughts on shelf life? I made about 2 gallons of feed and added this concentrate. The next day, I noticed the jar of concentrate had turned a hard burnt orange color instead of the yellowish it was the day before.
Understudy:
--- Quote from: theriverhawk on April 05, 2011, 09:14:08 am ---Made some....definitely had more similar consistency to actual HBH concentrate than other recipes.
Just curious as to thoughts on shelf life? I made about 2 gallons of feed and added this concentrate. The next day, I noticed the jar of concentrate had turned a hard burnt orange color instead of the yellowish it was the day before.
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Yes, I have had that happen when the emulsifier (lecithin) doesn't dissolve properly. It takes a real high speed blender mixing the lecithin and then adding it to the mix. You end up with a red mix with lots of graininess. The mix is still good but it tends to not mix as well with the sugar water.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
jcarry:
Hy everyone my name is jcarry.i want to share somthing with you about topic
HONEY-B-HEALTHY is a honeybee feeding stimulant composed of lemongrass and spearmint oil concentrate. HONEY-B-HEALTHY helps promote healthy vigorous hives when used as a feeding stimulant. Use as a feeding stimulant for late winter, early spring, and during dearth's of nectar. Also add to your feeding mix to help build up packages, nucs and swarms.
I AM USING IT AND IT IS THE BEST
Understudy:
--- Quote from: jcarry on April 15, 2011, 02:01:38 am ---Hy everyone my name is jcarry.i want to share somthing with you about topic
HONEY-B-HEALTHY is a honeybee feeding stimulant composed of lemongrass and spearmint oil concentrate. HONEY-B-HEALTHY helps promote healthy vigorous hives when used as a feeding stimulant. Use as a feeding stimulant for late winter, early spring, and during dearth's of nectar. Also add to your feeding mix to help build up packages, nucs and swarms.
I AM USING IT AND IT IS THE BEST
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You must be new here.
Outside of blatant spamming. Nobody here is trashing HBH. They ar3e just looking for a slightly less expensive alternative. Come back when you have turned your brain on.
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