Pulled some honey today!!!

[ccwonka]

YUMM.  Pulled out five capped frames today.  VERY light honey, very sweet.  I'm chunk honey-ing them as graduation gifts to my seniors this coming weekend!  (That, and a little beeswax lip balm!)

This is my third year, and it looks like I will finally have a "bumper crop" this year!!  My supers are 8 frame (spaced).  It looks like I will have at least two more full supers before this flow is over, and possibly up to four.

[Jahjude]

Wow,always nice to reap rewards huh X:X - How many hives do you have,wats the set-up like for the one u pulled frames from (2deeps+2supers??),Is it that u've got 8med super frames spaced in a 10framer??Do they ever end up building burr combs or always real fat combs on each frame??

[AllenF]

It is all that locus and poplar.  Great stuff.

[ccwonka]

I have six hives, four that overwintered and two from swarms this year.  Had two other swarms this year already,  but they left for greener pastures.

I either have a deep and a medium, or two deeps for each of my "brood nests".  I use mediums for supers, and they are 8 frames spaced in a ten frame box.  There's a little burr, but 90% they just build super fat comb.  On the four strong hives I have two with one and two with two supers right now (had stated too many earlier, sorry!!!).  I expect I'll get at least 8 frames off the strongest hive, and several off of each of the others, but thought I'd wait till a little later in the flow!!  I've got my taste for now!!

[luvin honey]

That's great! Lucky graduates :)