Harvesting My First Honey: Super Removal, Uncapping, Extraction and Jarring

[@aeynosarturii8053]

Dude, I couldn't be happier for you in this endeavor. I love the videos and going along for the ride. I think at this point you need to update your logo to have a puck, plant, and bee on it. Happy apiculturing, er hydroponicing, er brewing, er just keep having fun doing what ever you are doing.

[@CreatureCribs]

You should grow hydroponic manuka flowers so your bees can produce manuka honey for high profit. 😂 winner winner chicken dinner!

[@1_HighDuke]

They work super fast. We had 2 alpine hives 2 years ago and within the first year had about 10-12 kg of honey. Hope you're ready to give away a lot more honey, Hooch!

[@ShewanJanith]

Wow hooch!, you have a grow tower ! , Really need a video about that , (and a DIY method)

[@CM-tw2oj]

Seconded

[@downunderfulla6001]

I wish I was still beekeeping. Honey gates always raised my temperament😂 Get an inch with piece of timber to fit the bucket. From the underside in the centre screw in a screw to rest the frame on while you uncap. Remember honey cells face upwards slightly. So position your frames in the spinner so the top is towards the back of the spin if you know what I mean. Frames will come out a lot cleaner. I still have a jar that size from every single harvest I did. The seasonal flavours are next level. Even one weeks harvest to the next week (if a good flow is on) can be totally different in taste, complexity and colour

[@greggory1532]

Hoocho dude! I'm so glad I found your channel. Just started an NFT setup, I can't wait to watch your videos on vertical towers. I'm also tryna save up for a 3D printer. Oh, and I've been a hobby apairist for maybe 4 years. Not often ya find a channel with all the things you enjoy. Cheers!

[@Hoocho]

Careful, the 3d print rabbit hole is a deep one

[@IntroducingEmy]

🐝 Yay! The honey looks fantastic!

[@vegasfreeballer6604]

You sir are an absolute delight. Love watching your stuff

[@sarahcurry7255]

Loved this video! So interesting 😍 We have flow hives so haven't done spinning or uncapping etc. That spinner was so cheap, too!

[@karennaicker7031]

Hey Hooch, ty for an amazing channel, truthful, honest, about everything. Ive watched almost every video and have learned soo much. I grow Giant pumpkins and Giant Watermelons and was wondering have you ever tried to grow them using the same method as you did with the Turmeric and Ginger in the grow bags. I think you should. lol.. Be an amazing challenge. Im going to do an experiment with the watermelon this season buy growing in the bag. My 2 plants will be ready in about 1 or 2 weeks to go in. I live in rural Adelaide near the Murry River. I have some Ginger sprouting so going to try the bag method also.. Cant wait to see my results. :)

[@sambagamb]

Aw bud, so exciting! Especially seeing how happy the experience has been for you, I'm rapt fo you! Sounds like there'll be some mead coming up on All The Gear :D

[@sunnyjones682]

This was so fun to watch! Thanks for making these videos! I can’t wait to print it! Any plans to make mead soon? With your awesome honey?!

[@mikeroach3301]

How good! I foresee a mead video coming soon.

[@GardenFreshHomestead]

WoW, your hand swelled up like a balloon, well done on your first honey harvest. We also have a flow hive and hope to harvest our honey by Chrismas or the end of Summer.

[@glennmccarthy8773]

Congrats, mate, great looking colour of your honey.

[@madjaffa]

Soo cool. I did some beekeeping on the farm but they got smashed by pests before we got too many harvests from it. I really want to put a hive on our house roof 😅. But don’t think the misses approves. 🤣

[@DonutChucka]

Nice one Hoocho. The best honey I ever tasted was from a wild hive, hidden in a hollow branch that dropped from a large gum tree on our property. My dad and I found it and had an impromptu honey feed on the spot.

[@Hoocho]

@@DonutChucka even better as a father son moment. 🍯

[@NoneOfyourbusiness-ob2yz]

Really nice lad, you are a joy to follow. Bless you.

[@wayne8113]

Thanks Hoocho 🐝🐝🐝🐝 (4 bees is a good score)

[@benphillips1152]

Amazing, well done Hoocho

[@MKe11y]

Well done!! Love the nod to JustAlex too 😅

[@Hoocho]

Kindred Spirit.

[@Scrambles7]

Already?? Them bees be working hard!

[@Hoocho]

@@Scrambles7 I know, I was shocked too!

[@kevinkc3onohelijeepworld953]

Sweet Harvest Would ❤ a Dragon fruit update, seriously considering a DWC 5gal bucket with 27gal tote resv. But I’m gonna have to come up with a external trellising. Maybe sandwich a 4x4 between two buckets with a dual hex box on top maybe mimic around the bucket to get extra support 😊

[@leithal92]

I asked for a dragonfruit update when I was at Mitches recently, he’s said expect it q1 next year as it will be fruiting. That said they looked incredible and very healthy!

[@FlameMirage]

whoa! hoocho~ yummmm

[@RobsAquaponics]

Nice harvest mate. How much do you need for a batch of mead?

[@Hoocho]

37.5 Kg to make 100L of mead (the size of my still) *wink wink* 🤣

[@mojonojo3]

​@@Hoochoit's slightly disappointing given the cost and time involved in making the honey then distilling it. Not a lot of honey flavour makes it across the still. Leave it as mead, then fortify with spirit.

[@sambagamb]

@@Hoocho So you'll be right to set some off before Chrissy going by the speed of your team

[@mustaphaja5017]

Welll succes, proud of you

[@will16320]

top vid hoocho!

[@aidan4158]

Glad your beekeeping is going well, have you learnt how to take a sting out without squeezing the venom sack?

[@rrrushan]

Lovely!

[@DangerZone-w6y]

The Bee Keeper with Jason STanthom is my favorite movie.

[@fins5150]

Hoocho, how much would you say your small setup ran you in USD? Start to finish into jars. Been thinking for homesteading.

[@CriticoolHit]

18:30 Unintentional bee pun. "bee-autiful"

[@Hoocho]

@@CriticoolHit I’m hyper aware of using the word bee now hahaha

[@CreatureCribs]

I forgot to ask. The flexible foldable water tanks are they waterproof on the top like the blue water drums you use ? I’m going to purchase your hooch buckets but want to have a gravity fed rain gutter grow with the float valves. It will be kept outside, living in Perth

[@Hoocho]

They don’t have a cap for the top, but the amount of rain they’ll collect is insignificant. Especially in Perth 😂 Jk I know you get some hectic winter rain.

[@middleway1885]

Soo exciting! How do you tell if the bees are consuming flowers that are from toxic areas? Cheers!

[@Hoocho]

Define toxic areas? Bees forage in a radius of 8km from their location… so if there’s a “toxic area” within that radius you can assume they’ll go there

[@gruntrant]

Time to brew up some mead!

[@MrPhoon78]

I see a Mead making vid coming soon 😅

[@brian420pm]

just beautiful.... and honey drunk to boot! hehe 🙏

[@plowestory]

Awesome mate, very nice - But please don't use metal spoons..print up a wooden spoon foe honey.

[@jourdanhamme3426]

A mead video is in the future ❤❤❤

[@marcelmartin2173]

Now place your equipment near the hive and the bees will clean it for you.

[@Stonedbarrington]

That was super fast. I might have to grow weed and keep bees.

[@Hoocho]

@@Stonedbarrington Wee beed

[@mojonojo3]

Down side is you want unfertilised flowers not seedy low strength bushweed

[@SirChickon]

you didnt turn the knob to eleven, but it seems the honey goes to 11!

[@roidroid]

17:32 been subbed for almost 2 years, didn't know you had cows (guess it never came up in vids i watched).

[@Hoocho]

I should’ve said “neighbours cows” ahhaha

[@roidroid]

@@Hoocho i was in Bris/Cab acreage for several years. (i'm always struck by how similar your landscape looks 😉 ). Once put on coffee machine in morning, then looked over to a neighbour's cow _(travelled from several properties away)_ staring me in the face through our kitchen window (eating our kitchen garden lol). Last thing u expect to see, i laughed so hard. We had a similar situation a couple times after, tho with neighbours' horses. Semi-rural areas are hilarious to live in.

[@Hoocho]

@ rural is the only way. 👌🏻

[@Maguyver32]

that's 17 gallons of mead waiting to happen

[@Uncle_Jester]

Soak some wristbands or fingerless gloves in "liquid smoke" or some other smell they hate.

[@bobsieschannel]

I also watch another gardening channel called self sufficient me he robbed his bee's not all that long ago and if i remember right he got 40 kilos of honey lolol from his hive lol

[@Hoocho]

@@bobsieschannel his was an 8 month harvest (this was a 1 month), give me another 7 months with my girls. 🤣😂 I’ve got 4 hives now. It’ll be a big year.

[@Hoocho]

@@bobsieschannel ps: Marks one of my idols haha

[@bobsieschannel]

@Hoocho thats gonna distilled mead and a honey table at Robs market stall lololol

[@bobsieschannel]

@Hoocho i love watching his stuff , if had the room he has i would probably have the same amount of raised gardens .

[@Hoocho]

@@bobsieschannel I tried that, but it didn’t work where I am, hence the hydro hahaha

[@TheHanyou]

Why are you wearing rubber gloves? You should really be wearing some thick gardening/leather/cloth gloves when going into a hive so they can't sting you.

[@Hoocho]

These are nitrile gloves. Usually the bees leave them alone tbh. But this bee was determined hahahah

[@shadmorgan5491]

Cringe watch as the visual is just so B O G A N you too will smile looking back from your desktop loaded with Lego[tm] at this "phase" of your growth to adult. *any edjut anywhere can fill little frames in a month, those who know do it in just a few days! *as with those others cashed up with no idea you were sucked in to buying useless kit, starting with that bottomboard where bees are telling you very very loudly "ain't right boss"! But you charge on lad. VD will rip your attitude a new one... bee positive on that score. YewToob less those clicks! Judgee? Sack that Phil bloke. Like all wannabes the only impressed are those knowing less than Phil has drawn from "Beekeeping for Dummies".😂

[@Hoocho]

@@shadmorgan5491 Attitude check yourself. Firstly. I don’t pretend to know everything. This is a journey. Secondly. I don’t pay phil mate. He’s just a friendly bloke I got my bees off. Third. Those bottom boards are screened in preparation for the VD in addition to SHB. So in the same breath as you scorned, you also undermined your assertion. If you’re not a fan of the content. I suggest you don’t watch. Or leave a constructive criticism instead of whatever that comment was meant to “bee”

[@shadmorgan5491]

@Hoocho You are pretending. Only those who know could know that. Your "buyer bias" now tells me you know nothing, well no more than some CGI motions to follow in broadcasting complete bollacks! Blind leading the Dumb0 here, Phil being the piper.

[@GardenFreshHomestead]

WoW, your hand swelled up like a balloon, well done on your first honey harvest. We also have a flow hive and hope to harvest our honey by Chrismas or the end of Summer.