I didnt extract any last year, but this year the Goldenrod has blessed me with at least a few supers full already and I have customers asking for it. In my area of the South, when is the usual time that people do Fall extracting? It isnt all capped yet, but they are working on it.
This hive is phenomenal. I split it twice this year. Before the flow, and once after. Its still booming with a high population and was one of my main honey producers. Yup, gonna graft like crazy from this one next year.
Congrats on a great honey crop, bottle it up! :-P
Thats great that you got so much honey!!!! Sorry I don't know when to extract I am still ignorant :)
We have never extracted fall honey that I can remember. After summer dearth, fall honey if what got the hives through the winter. But if you have honey supers on, you can extract when they are capped. I would do it before frost.
k9,glad to here you got some honey.i didn't harvest much honey in the spring,summer flow because of the drought. i had to feed like 30 hives out of 50.the fall flow is great,the goldenrod and alligator grass is producing lots of nector.looks like i will harvest 50 to 60 boxesthis fall. ..... schawee
Schawee...I wont get that much by no means...but still pretty cool to actually get something out of my bees after investing so much into them. 50 hives is still my target number to get within 2 more years.