Waiting on the honey

[BrentX]

There are supers on each hive alllllmooooosttt ready.  Maybe a third of the honey is already capped.  I will check again in ten days or so, but the harvest cant be far off now. 

[L Daxon]

Yeah.  Honey harvest.  My favorite time of year :pinkelephant:

[mikecva]

You might find these 10 days to be very long. Start reading War and Peace.  :lau: :lau: :lau: :lau:

[msully]

I'm doing my first harvest tomorrow!  Hoping for about 50 lbs from my 2 hives!! 

Hope the girls got the message about my plans......

[Vance G]

If you ger the right conditions and you have a good population, they might suyrprise you and fill up fast.  I got very pleasantly surprised when I found I had not taken enough supers out to give my hives more room!  Go Team go!!  I am waiting for my first honey crop since 1984.  That one was about 38,000 pounds but I don't think we will do that with six five frame nucs that I split up to a dozen colonies. 

[BrentX]

Checking on the bees revealed they have been ve ry busy.  I took twice as many supers as I was expecting and there is lots of honey left in the hives.  The boxes will go back on as the hives are crowded and a small flow is expected in the fall which is honey for the bees.

Happy beekeeper.:)