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Title: Pint of sugar water covers ?% of frame?
Post by: GSF on February 06, 2016, 06:25:22 AM
Does anyone have a ball park idea of how much area on a medium or deep frame will a pint of sugar water cover? Knowing this could help prevent backfilling the brood nest in late winter.
Title: Re: Pint of sugar water covers ?% of frame?
Post by: little john on February 06, 2016, 06:48:00 AM
You might be able to get some kind of ball-park figure by comparing the average weights of full combs against the weight of a known volume of syrup, and guestimating from there. It would be very approximate of course, as the water content of syrup is a moving target when in situ - but could be a useful exercise to figure this out, nevertheless.
LJ
Title: Re: Pint of sugar water covers ?% of frame?
Post by: iddee on February 06, 2016, 08:04:07 AM
A quick guesstimate, I came up with about a gallon of 1:1 per frame.

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