I agree, I absolutely love the concept and am thinking about making the major investment of 2 hives but what if it some how effects the natural process.

+Donna Volkmann over 11 years of research behind this invention. It would have come up by now

+Donna Volkmann There is very little natural about honey extraction, at least the flow hive causes less obvious trauma to the bees.

C'est incroyable

Hi Matt, it totally depends on the region and the flora available within approximately 3 miles of where you place the hive. The hive shown in the video is near Rio Vista CA on the California Delta and has many flowers that are still blooming in August even, while many places within 30 miles are experiencing a dearth, or have limited sources of nectar & pollen for the bees. Seeing as this hive is in a superior location, it did not take but 6 weeks or so to fill. I will be going back up there in 2 weeks to check on other things and I will see how full it is again.

Cool enough; TY :)

ahhh life :)

halodude960 mee too

Same 😂

lol one year later still ejoying it at 01:21 am :D

3:48 am for me

Hi Catalin, in the summer at the location seen in the video, we were harvesting 3 times a year, usually one time per month during the summer. Unfortunately we moved to a new location and forage here is very limited so I am not harvesting honey at this time. Our bees are healthy but they barely make enough honey for their needs.

@@ubenpwned Thank you. Tell me are you happy with this hive ? i wana buy one next year.

@@CatalinCiprian I think it has worked fine for us but I would not purchase it again. You can buy 2 full standard hives for the price of the Flow hive, and I prefer to scrape the honey and wax together into a bowl and recover the wax for other projects. It was a fun experiment but I would not buy one if I could start over.

I tossed my flow frames in the recycle bin last year. They got some minor mold on then in winter storage and I tried everything to clean them. Even took one frame apart trying to clean the individual pieces and finally realized it's not worth the time.

@@ubenpwned Well thats discouraging. I'm going to try to just keep a better check on them every year and do maintenance so they don't get built up so bad.

There is already a screened bottom board on the hive.

Rick Deckard yes it may not be fully visible in the video but the drain pipe is completely full of honey around 2:05 and there is no room for more, so if the frame was opened further it would have spilled over the sides of the internal trough. I've done it 6 more times since the video was made and a few times i got impatient and opened it too far and had a small amount spill into the hive, but not a large amount. Thsnks for watching!

gasperle because they don't want to

Kiwi Bird so you are a smarty pants?

sreekanth krishnan they are available from www.honeyflow.com

it how much ?

can you tell me please ...........

www.honeyflow.com.au

you got the internet and google, use it

Buying Bees is easy if you live in the USA. You can buy them online or even locally if you search for a beekeeper. If you want to buy the flow give frames just search on Google for Flow hives. You can buy them on their website, Honeyflow.

ayush jain it takes weeks or months for the bees to fill the frames with nectar, process it into honey, and then cap the frames. I drain one or 2 frames per month in the summer, and I get about 10 lbs per frame.

It's also dependent Brian on how big the hive is, the climate aka weather and season/area (stress on getting materials/availability during flower season). I've heard reports of all filled frames within a weeks time, and reports that it took months Additionally, the frames style allows for the beeswax to remain with minimal damage. Bees use about 7kg honey to make 1kg of wax, so this aspect of the Flow system can improve your hive’s rate of honey production over time because the bees simply can reuse what they have. That being said, for those who do want to take the wax there are alternate boxes from the same company to buy (not sure if you have one because cant see internal obviously). Part of the issue I think is often patience as for many people interested they should look into beekeeping courses and/or learning under someone else locally in their area as they attempt this. That being said, you get quite a bit of honey from this method, with minimal stress to the bees which is incredibly important. And as you pointed out earlier, your grandchildren can view the experience safely without disturbing it ^_^ Hope this works out!

Oh, bear in mind when I say a "weeks time" I don't mean immediately after install it. I mean after they've settled under optimal condition. Don't want to give others wrong ideas, apologies.

Lmao

Hi Donna, I think they work as advertised. If I could do it over again I probably would not buy them, since I now have 9 regular Langstroth hives and I am fine with taking them apart to harvest. Bottom line though is that they do work and all the naysayers on the bee forums were wrong. I belong to a local bee club and there are about 10 of us that have Flow hives and no one has reported any issues or problems other than a concern over the honey leaking when extracting... but doing it a little at a time seems to have stopped most of that.

but it seems, like u harvesting immature honey, am i right? i cannot understand this several moments - what happens with brood cells and other and how much harm this hive causing to bees in compare to ordinary hives

the honey cells are capped, so it is not immature honey. We use a queen excluder under this box, so there is no brood in this super. I'm not sure I understand what damage you are claiming this does to the bees, they seem pretty happy to live there.

tnx for the answer, its more understandable now :) im worried about damage because of brood exactly

+Сергей Катков there are no brood in the flow frames. The queen can't access those frames. All the brood will be in the boxes below the flow frames.

captain776 the bees are not blocked at all. Check at 3:35 and you will see hundreds of bees sitting on the landing board. They do not normally have access to the rear of the flow frames so they can't move out of the rear area where we are working. You can see them walking around between the frames, but there is no gap for them to get out that way. They can come and go as they please from the front.

it's the inside structure of the comb that moves, the bees are not desturbed

I understand that, looks like u have a divider between brood box and flow super

captain776 that divider is simply a queen excluder. We don't want the queen accessing the flow super.

Floyd Holt it is a true flow hive with an additional brood box added.

D Hansel lol ikr, has it been done? They ask for 700 bucks

Check my facts? We bought that hive as part of the crowdfunding... From the Australian owned company. Those are facts

Then why do you say its made in the usa in the video????

@@budgiebreder can you please tell me where in the video?

Brian Mathews 4:34 “now that they’re manufacturing this in the united states”

@@budgiebreder I'm guessing she's referring to the cedar hive bodies which are made in Oregon. Sorry for the confusion, I have never noticed her saying that and was not aware of the comment.