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Offline bwallace23350

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Pulled my first frame of honey.
« on: March 20, 2018, 02:53:31 pm »
I pulled my first of frame of honey. Will be posting pictures of it to get advice on if it is good enough to harvest from.
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2018, 03:26:53 pm »
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2018, 04:32:50 pm »
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2018, 04:58:37 pm »
Not working for me BW
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2018, 05:04:24 pm »
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2018, 05:04:36 pm »
Success on getting the picture up
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2018, 06:28:53 pm »
Did you give it a shake test to see if it comes out?
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2018, 06:33:57 pm »
I did after I put them in the freezer and refrigerator. So far nothing has come out.
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2018, 06:36:09 pm »
Doesn?t count if they were still cold. 🙁
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2018, 06:36:51 pm »
Ok I will take it out and let it warm up and let yo uknow.
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2018, 08:18:18 pm »
Wallace, thanks for posting the pic on Beemaster, I cannot view Facebook pics because I am not a member of Facebook.

Regarding the Honey frame, I see lots of uncapped cells with open honey.  I do not extract frames with open cells, but remember I am a hobbyist...... So just follow sawdust, Jim(s)  advice and your honey will be fine.
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2018, 08:41:36 pm »
It is your spring so I would like to see more of the frame finished and capped.  Do you have a way to spin it?  You can slowly spin it without uncapping.  This will empty the cells that are not capped.  Jar that and then uncap the capped cells and spin that out.  Eat the uncapped first.  You don't have much there.
If you plan was to crush and strain then use the angle end of your hive tool to strip out the uncapped cells first.  Then do the capped.
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2018, 08:50:08 pm »
Quote from: Van, Arkansas, USA on March 20, 2018, 08:18:18 pm
Wallace, thanks for posting the pic on Beemaster, I cannot view Facebook
pics because I am not a member of Facebook.

Regarding the Honey frame, I see lots of uncapped cells with open honey. 
I do not extract frames with open cells, but remember I am a hobbyist......
So just follow sawdust, Jim(s)  advice and your honey will be fine.
Blessings

Ditto... on all counts :)

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Offline bwallace23350

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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2018, 11:40:16 pm »
After taking it out for about5-10. minutes at work. Driving it home for 15 minutes in a car with the heater on, and then sitting on the counter at the house for another 5 minutes I saw nothing drip out Either way I wanted some honey so I just cut out the capped stuff and bottled it. I will eat it up fast so no worries
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2018, 11:42:00 pm »
Thanks for the help. In two weeks the other 9 frames will get checked again. All they have right now are wild blackberry bushes but boy do they. have lots of that at the moment. The clover is starting to come in though.

The honey I harvested I feel like was left over golden rod honey. Very dark, rich, but had a sharp after taste
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Re: Pulled my first frame of honey.
« Reply #15 on: March 21, 2018, 07:02:53 am »
You have to give it a good shake up and down holding it upside down to do the shake test...... The nectar usually just dooen't run out by itself.

Up here, I have never been happy with the early honey I've sampled.
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