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Awesome Masters! I'm in my second year and nowhere on your level yet but working on it.
I pulled 72 pounds of honey off of my bees 3 weeks ago to give them more space. I had to head out of town for work so it was a priority as they have been building comb and capping out medium supers in roughly 2 weeks the past 6 weeks. I'll start pulling boxes that are ready as soon as I get home this weekend and moving hives to my dads for the cotton flow.
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Originally posted by Gunswayne View PostAwesome Masters! I'm in my second year and nowhere on your level yet but working on it.
I pulled 72 pounds of honey off of my bees 3 weeks ago to give them more space. I had to head out of town for work so it was a priority as they have been building comb and capping out medium supers in roughly 2 weeks the past 6 weeks. I'll start pulling boxes that are ready as soon as I get home this weekend and moving hives to my dads for the cotton flow.
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I used to raise Watermelons. I had a bee keeper that would bring out hives every spring. He always picked them up just the melons started to get ripe. He said the worst honey he ever had came from a Watermelon field that had been picked over and the melons started to sour and go bad. He said the honey tasted like sour watermelon.
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Originally posted by Robert View PostI used to raise Watermelons. I had a bee keeper that would bring out hives every spring. He always picked them up just the melons started to get ripe. He said the worst honey he ever had came from a Watermelon field that had been picked over and the melons started to sour and go bad. He said the honey tasted like sour watermelon.
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Originally posted by MASTERS View PostThe only thing the bees forage off of is the nectar produced by the blooms. Once the blooms fall off the chance for them to forage on any watermelon is looong gone. If you shredded the remainder of the melons that were culled and left to rot, I could see bees trying to forage off of them if there was no water source nearby. Even then only for a day or two till the sun curled the rhines up. Maybe I’m wrong but if the melons I’ve had my bees in, has produced honey as clear as water with a watermelon finish to it. Maybe I’m wrong, and if anyone else cares to weigh in I’m all ears.
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If you have spent any time in Watermelon field there are always melons that are getting culled they will have rotten ends, bad belly’s or goose necks. The deer bust them open. Coons get in them and the crows pick at them. Just about any melon good or bad will have bees on it once it gets a hole in it. I have seen it many times. All I know is what the guy with the bees said. He had a couple of hundred hives and sold lots of local honey for years. But he was no internet expert. He was just an old man with some bees.
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Originally posted by Robert View PostIf you have spent any time in Watermelon field there are always melons that are getting culled they will have rotten ends, bad belly’s or goose necks. The deer bust them open. Coons get in them and the crows pick at them. Just about any melon good or bad will have bees on it once it gets a hole in it. I have seen it many times. All I know is what the guy with the bees said. He had a couple of hundred hives and sold lots of local honey for years. But he was no internet expert. He was just an old man with some bees.
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