Final thought about doing mason jar honey.

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I videoed this before a few days before my last video about removing the honey supers. Sorry I’m just getting to posting this. #beekeeping #beehive #honey #hive #floridabeekeeping #bees #newbeekeeper #tips #honeysuper #beekeepinglife #beekeeping101

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@zalmaflash 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the honest report. I tried it with two jars and it worked but it wasn't very nice looking.

@BeeRexBeekeeper 3 ай бұрын

It’s cool, but in the end it was a mess.

@karenpruitt6833 10 ай бұрын

I remember back in the '70's they used jars like this. They used alot less wax in the bottom and used it to adhere a small piece of the hove's comb as a guide. They' d build one nice straight comb. You did need to have the hive slightly honeybound.

@BeeRexBeekeeper 10 ай бұрын

I saw a pic on a forum that had a piece of comb glued with wax before. After I did mine I remembers that pic, but by that time I remembered, they already started building their comb.

@highmountainfarmersoffgrid 3 ай бұрын

Seems like it would be good for selling honeycomb jars after you topped them off with honey. That is the point.... nice job would sell well where I live. Would brob be better on top of a honey super last honey flow rather than in the spring to stop swarming?

@BeeRexBeekeeper 3 ай бұрын

I’m just glad I finally got it to work. I probably wouldn’t do it again unless I started going to farmers markets. I’m sure it would sell there good.

@KajunHomestead 10 ай бұрын

Does look cool.

@BeeRexBeekeeper 10 ай бұрын

It does, but watch my video about removing the honey supers and you’ll see the mess it made. It’s 1 video before this one. Thank you for your comment!!😄

@darrellhamner4608 10 ай бұрын

I built the set-up, glued lid rings to holes, waxed the bottom of the jars but never had honey flow that I thought adequate to build comb in the jars. How did you get the bees out of the jars? Was there dead ones that had to be fished out?

@BeeRexBeekeeper 10 ай бұрын

No dead bees. I just shook a little, set it down, let them climb to the top and sook them again. Repeated that for about 15mins.

@Tarheelsrule Ай бұрын

You're a rookie figure it out

@BeeRexBeekeeper Ай бұрын

Doesn’t hurt to ask questions. Everyone’s a rookie at one point.

@darrellhamner4608 Ай бұрын

Not a complete rookie. Been doing it 7 years just never used this technique. Get manners.@@Tarheelsrule

@janprowell2216 10 ай бұрын

I am going to try this on a little resource nuc. It would just be a little distraction for them. For the honey supers, were they empty foundation or did those hives start with drawn comb? If they had drawn comb, it probably isn't an equal comparison.

@BeeRexBeekeeper 10 ай бұрын

All the honey supers started out with new sheets of wax foundation. If you are going to try the mason jar honey, try cutting a small piece of wax foundation and gluing it with wax on the bottom. I’m sure that would have helped mine better.

@BeeRexBeekeeper 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment 😄

@janprowell2216 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion.

@janprowell2216 10 ай бұрын

Another thing might be shorter jars. It will be fun to play with things that aren't production hives.

@Steele_Wings 10 ай бұрын

I bought the summerhawk 8frame Mason jar box and it has never worked. I placed on strong colonies and prewaxed bottom of jars with natural bees wax. All colonies swarm when I try to use it.

@BeeRexBeekeeper 10 ай бұрын

Oh wow, that’s not good! I didn’t know they make a premade box for it.

@bunhelsingslegacy3549 9 ай бұрын

We used a hole saw on an inner cover and tried it on our strongest hive last year, but all they did was repurpose the beeswax!

@BeeRexBeekeeper 9 ай бұрын

@@bunhelsingslegacy3549 sounds like my luck

@barrysvendsen9161 Ай бұрын

I’m putting them on top of a Flow Hive for home use - so that I don’t have to pack my jars etc.❣️

@BeeRexBeekeeper Ай бұрын

One day I may get a flow hive. How do you like it? How long have you had a flow hive?

@user-cp2sx8gp2z Ай бұрын

Should put a super under jars when jars where full.😊

@BeeRexBeekeeper Ай бұрын

You are right, that would have worked. I just wanted to try it. If I do it again I’ll do that. Thanks for the comment.

@grantjackson3951 9 ай бұрын

Ceracell do Ross rounds frames , giving them a whirl this season

@BeeRexBeekeeper 9 ай бұрын

I plan on it, we’ll… next season. I’m going to compare Hoggs halfcomb with the Ross rounds.

@bunhelsingslegacy3549 9 ай бұрын

We tried this last year with our strongest hive and they just repurposed the beeswax we'd put in the jar for them so we had empty jars! We've gotten a few frames of cut comb honey from our bees just by giving them a frame with no foundation in it every now and then, one or two in a strong hive seems to be about right. We also made a rookie mistake with a swarm this year and left a feeder shim on and forgot the inner cover because we didn't want to bother them right after getting them into a the deep hive box and we wound up with them gluing the shim to the lid with propolis and making this beautiful honeycomb stuck to the lid that left only beespace between the lines of honeycomb, once we saw what they'd started, we let them finish, and we harvested it last weekend when it was capped. Delicious and pretty and probably will pay for that swarm's woodenware!

@BeeRexBeekeeper 9 ай бұрын

Lol just the smallest extra room and they build. You’re lucky they didn’t build and lay drone brood in it. That happened to me before, larvae everywhere when I opened the box.

@bunhelsingslegacy3549 9 ай бұрын

@@BeeRexBeekeeper Two weeks before we harvested we noticed a few capped drone brood cells in one of the combs (the wonkiest looking one) but by the time they'd capped the honey the drones were long gone and everything was filled with honey!

@BeeRexBeekeeper 9 ай бұрын

Nice

@CaseyBbees 10 ай бұрын

I am doing a Ross round super and a hogg half comb super, I split all of my hives and finally 2 of the 3 I split are queen right again just waiting on the most recent split queen to return from mating flight

@CaseyBbees 10 ай бұрын

Probably won't get much honey this season even though they are putting it back like crazy right now in Michigan

@BeeRexBeekeeper 10 ай бұрын

I’m wanting to do that next year, the rose round, and hogg half. I’ve never done them before.

@DialedN_07 Ай бұрын

Too small of a sample size I think. One hive out of 8, you're going to have a dud sometimes. Possible you just happened to try the jars on the wrong hive at the wrong time?

@BeeRexBeekeeper Ай бұрын

That hive wasn’t a dud for sure. It was more me trying to get them to build inside the jars. I tried a couple way didn’t work until I finally figured it out. I’m sure if I kept doing it I would perfect it but I lost interest in the idea.

@Steele_Wings 10 ай бұрын

They do close all the vent holes. 😂

@BeeRexBeekeeper 10 ай бұрын

Yes 🙄! I don’t get it, you want them to have ventilation, but they close it up. So my question is…… do you really need to give them extra ventilation? I do for all my hives but they always try and close the gaps.