Thank you Kamon.

Thank you.

Thanks Blake. We do have tee shirts and we need to put them on our web site. Call the store at 706 782 6722 and one of the girls can explain what we have. Alameda, CA ?

I call that "saudades" !

@@markspc1 I had to look that word up... it’s a new one for me. A Portuguese word... “sad state of intense longing for Saudade is a word for a sad state of intense longing for someone or something that is absent. Saudade comes from Portuguese culture, and it is often expressed in its literature and music. Saudade is described as a kind of melancholy yearning.” I’m guessing you’re from around there? I’m also guessing it’s all gone now? Probably all developed into housing & commercial centres as far as the eye can see? That would be sad indeed! I grew up in the farm & fishing village of Ladner... just south of Vancouver B.C. Canada... it’s all gone now there too! I guess that’s why I appreciate so much, ‘Bob’s country tour’... Georgia is the ‘Peach State’ isn’t it? Love to see some peach groves in a video... if they still exist?

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Thank you. I'll keep that in mind.

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Don Bearden you are so right, and I am one of those people that would love to work for Bob Binnie I think he is great

We have a little Linden honey here. I like it personally.

Good point, it can look similar.

We pull supers two times. Once after the spring nectar flows are over and once after the Sourwood in late July. We're extracting Sourwood now and still have to pull half of our yards next week.

Hang in there.

Run!!

Hi Brad. Trust me, we do get stung, but not so much that we can't take it. Thanks.

Hi Ian. Your bees are looking pretty Fat & Sassy right now. Congratulations on that after all the stuff you went through. It takes someone that's not normal to push through that. 👍

Congrads on your Honey crop Ian.

@@bobbinnie9872 I second that, he snapped those hives back in shape. True Master Beekeeper.

Congrads on your Honey crop Ian.

I see our bees on red clover some years but have never seen what I would call quantities of surplus honey from it. Maybe just a slight weight gain.

Thanks for the offer. Someone would have to quit though because we have the right number of workers at this time.

I think both ways work fine and bees will do both well. In the past we have had many deep boxes for surplus honey but as I get older I will be moving towards medium size boxes more.

It's not pollen but it looks like the bees have opened it for some reason.

If we do use a tea tree oil towel it is only in until the next time we visit the colony. By that time it's about spent anyway.

In this case these colonies are going to get split next week and we wanted them to gain weight fast so we would have food to distribute to the nucs being made up. Normally I prefer buckets that may take a week to take down. Singles generally do not have division board feeders because we don't want to lose the two frames. Many of our double deeps will have inside feeders going into winter simply to make it easier to feed quickly.

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I've heard of Red Dawn but did not watch it.

Apiguard. Probably will use 4 half doses, 5 to 7 days apart because of the temperatures.

In years past most of my yards were 64 because that was what fit on our small trucks but now that I'm not moving yards much I prefer 40. Many of our yards are 48 but we're slowing changing to around 40. There is 40 in the thumbnail picture for this video.

Sourwood honey actually comes from the "Sourwood" tree. They are very common in the southern Appalachians.

Hi Joshua. It is not necessary to go back to a single. I actually prefer doubles myself, as long as the colony is not small. To do it, simply shake the bees off of the frames you don't want to be in the single box and make sure they have ample food because singles often don't have enough.

Without other options queens do end up mating with drones from their own yard. So yes, a drone frame could be helpful.

10/4, I forgot to ask should I let them build one now or in the spring?

And thanks again for your help

They do a fair job. it takes about a day per super and if it's a real strong colony some seem to find their way back.

I built most of our beds myself. They are only four inches higher than the frame.

@@bobbinnie9872 Thank you! These are the little lessons within your lessons you teach us. I really appreciate it.

Hi Diane. I don't know what pubmed is.

@@bobbinnie9872 Basically it's an online "subscription library/database" for medical and science related publications. Unless u have a subscription u can only see the abstract. But I know I read that article before for free. My access to pubmed and others have expired by a decade ( maybe 2). So copy/paste the title in google. U should get access to it by another source at no cost.

Not if we leave them cracked as shown in some of our videos. We generally crack the lids on our larger colonies in hot weather.

Close enough. We're going up to Otto (near Franklin) to pull supers tomorrow.

@etsetsetsets23 Franklin up Walnut Creek way is about done...probably one-two more days is it... sad!

I've not heard of that but it sure would be easier.

Congratulations on your new addition. Sorry, I don't remember your wife. I hope I was nice to her and it was a fun joke for her. We do have Sourwood in our retail store now and I would be happy to taste it. I'm here on most Saturdays but it's best to call ahead to make sure. For instance I'll be speaking at the North Carolina meeting this Saturday so won't be here. Thanks.

If you look closely you may see that many of our yards are on slopes that are too steep for a crane to work well. Even in the first yard in this video the grade is steep enough to require an extra piece of land scape timber under the front of the hive stands. We currently have 41 yards, many of which a crane simply wouldn't work in.You can trust me on that one. We're unable to even get a swinger forklift in 1/3 of our yards. Thanks.

Yes. We make them from 5/8 HDO. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZldqtSox8zJdWg.html

I believe we're going to be making tincture out of it. Selena seems to know a lot about it and we plan to get to it this winter.

A strong single with a queen excluder just ahead of the spring flow is asking for trouble with swarming in my view. If they can just get started putting nectar in a few frames before installing the excluder it seems to make a difference. At some point they settle in to collecting nectar and the excluder doesn't seem to matter any more.

@@bobbinnie9872 great advice....thanks Bob--i just want to keep that comb white(virgin comb) for cut comb..ill leave on till they start putting nectar in it then put queen excluder on..

Could you rephrase your question.

@@bobbinnie9872 Good. When you close the hive in the winter, do you place the plastic directly over the tires so that the bees scavenge in the heat and then put the wooden cover, or do you not put the plastic and put the wooden cover directly over the tires? Plastic has nothing to do with the heat and cold factor because I watched you sometimes put plastic over the tires

Temporary glitch. Thanks for checking.

Not yet.

Hi Mark. We're not selling propolis at this time. We're going to try making tinctures with it.

@@bobbinnie9872 Maybe you can share that process as well. Thanks for all you do to help us other beekeepers out. You're doing a great service to us all!

If cotton honey is cured right it is fairly decent. I don't buy it because what is offered to me is often too thin. I wish more cotton honey producers would use a good drying room before they extract.

@@bobbinnie9872 ours around here is actually cotton soybean mix. Corn cotton and soybeans is the main crops in my area.

@@kevinogden4363 Soybean honey is better than cotton in my view. It's great for blending with.

For some reason the bees don't take it well in our area in mid summer. They'll take it well early on, before real pollen starts coming in. But at that time we use patties if we feel we need it.

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Yes, mainly because every colony around Hollywood has already been split or will be next week.

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I went to 7:30 and didn't see what you're referring too. Perhaps a different time?

Hi Bob. She was scraping something behind you at 7:16 to 7:23 on my video on top of the frames