Flow Hive Classic Flow Frame Inspection with Cedar

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2 жыл бұрын

Happy Beekeeping from Flow Hive! Website go.honeyflow.com
Today Cedar pulled apart a Classic Flow Hive and had a look at the Flow Frames, before moving into the brood box. We saw fresh wax and bees festooning. Questions included moving a hive and cycling out brood frames.
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00:00 - Pollinator week + hive open
04:30 - Winter brood inspection
07:38 - Inspecting Flow Frame
15:07 - Moving a hive
23:52 - Native bees & nucleus hive
28:30 - Brood inspection
30:27 - Hive swarmed + clean Flow Frames
40:59 - Special offer
46:45 - Replacing brood frames
51:46 - Finish inspection
58:52 - Beeswax

Пікірлер: 25

@dpaxeco 2 жыл бұрын

And then at 19:30 a spider freaks out the usual KZfaq watcher, but the tone of this dude and gal is just lovely. Thank you for so much kindness!

@FlowHive 2 жыл бұрын

It was a great little moment, the baby huntsman spider made an appearance. -Kieran

@Rubbit2024 5 ай бұрын

Its wonderful how a father son dream comes to reality

@josephrossiter6802 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much all of you.

@Sassyglbeauty 2 жыл бұрын

Gotta love KZfaq. Somehow ended up on White House on a Hill, found myself binging his bee videos. Then, searched for this channel. Never have thought much about bees before but am fascinated by this! 💟

@FlowHive 2 жыл бұрын

That is so great to read, a youtube journey can be a thing of beauty and intrigue, but often it just gets weird. It is wonderful to learn more about bees and beekeeping, even if it is just to help bees through pollinator friendly gardening. -Kieran

@IronSparks155 10 ай бұрын

I recently did my first inspection after winter and had a LOT of trouble getting the super off the brood box. I ended up a there was a lot of wax on both sides of the excluder that was holding on - to he point where I was lifting the entire hive off the ground when I was trying to lift the super. I found that when I worked my hive tool around the bottom of the super, bees were flooding out of the gap and inevitably were squashed when I had to put it down again. I ended up having to use a 5mm thick piece of timber that was long enough to go across the width of the hive and after getting is between the excluder and super I slowly moved it along until the wax let go. Next time I think I will use some thick fishing line instead.

@aliasgharkalhoro 2 жыл бұрын

7th big like 👍 with big smile 😊

@Wild_Cannon 2 жыл бұрын

If I'm wanting to start keeping bees, what's the best way to get a flow hive and some gear?

@FlowHive 2 жыл бұрын

Hey there, Thanks for your interest & question. Here's a great page to begin: go.honeyflow.com/pages/getting-started-beekeeping A starter bundle is a great value place to start as it included the suit and smoker you'll need as well: go.honeyflow.com/collections/bundles Please email us at info@honeyflow.com if you have any further questions :) - Danika

@Craig-el4dr 2 ай бұрын

Question, how do the bees get to the flow frame with the queen excluder in place? Can they get through the slots?

@aliasgharkalhoro 2 жыл бұрын

Love ❤️ from Pakistan ❤️ 🇵🇰

@mervynshute880 Жыл бұрын

viewing your product on youtube. a few people show that they experience when opening the lock, for the first time, that honey runs down inside of the hive; is this because they open the lock fully at first?

@FlowHive Жыл бұрын

Hey Mervyn, Thanks for getting in touch. Were they definitely authentic Flow frames or counterfeit versions that you saw? We have a harvesting checklist that is great to follow especially for the first harvest, as some small amounts of leaking are usually linked to uncapped cells, and more time being need for the bees to work on these before the harvest. Here's a couple of pages related to that: support.honeyflow.com/flow-hive-harvesting-checklist/ support.honeyflow.com/what-do-i-need-to-check-before-i-harvest-from-my-flow-hive/ support.honeyflow.com/how-do-i-know-when-to-harvest-drain-the-hive/ - Danika

@mervynshute880 Жыл бұрын

@@FlowHive authentic. Fred Dunn site

@TrickyTrev01 2 жыл бұрын

👍pollen. By the way I noticed that you had a small strip under the back of your flow frames. Has the box wrapped slightly? As I have a similar situation with my hybrid flow hive, it was all good for a couple of weeks. However after all the rain we’ve had a large gap has developed. So can I do the same and put a packer underneath the back of my flow frames? Thanks in advance TrickyTrev 👍🐝🍯

@FlowHive 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Trevor, a lot of moisture can cause some timber swelling. We have a had a good few months of rain, possibly the wettest year ever. You can do the same, shaving a small portion of the back of the rear cover away, would allow for this to still fit easily and put this fail safe in place. Timber will naturally shrink and swell so you want to avoid making it too tight for the cover. -Kieran

@TrickyTrev01 2 жыл бұрын

@@FlowHive thanks Kieran I’ll see how I go👍🐝🍯

@rubenmejia5548 Жыл бұрын

Have you ever had any problems with Africanized bees attaching to your Breeze and breeding with your bees and what do you do about it

@FlowHive Жыл бұрын

In Australia this doesnt happen often however there can be more aggressive traits that come through needing requeening. -Kieran

@josephrossiter6802 2 жыл бұрын

Mr. Cedar please forgive me for interrupting but I have been curious to ask you which honey flavor do you think is the best tasting honey you've tasted please?

@FlowHive 2 жыл бұрын

What an interesting question, we will put it to Cedar and see if he can get back to you in the next live video.