🔵Checking out some honey production hives!

[@rickcook5335]

Kamon you are the most informative teacher on KZbin. I attended my first two bee club meetings, having never even seen inside a colony, and then covid hit. You helped me capture 7 swarms, and led me through hive inspections, taught me not to panic when I got my first sting, or dropped my first frame, and gave me the confidence to pop the top and lift out my first frames. You are an inspiration. Keep up the great work. I now have 9 colonies and will likely get honey off of one of my colonies. Our clover is going strong and my colonies are growing quickly. My biggest concern is that winter is coming and I want to get through my first winter with my colonies alive. I'm in Kentucky so hopefully the winter will be kind this year. My small swarms have quit taking the sugar water, and I just got some pollen patties to give them. We will see what happens. Have a great day and keep your wife giggling, she is a treasure.

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Rich thanks very much for the kind words! Congrats on growing so rapidly. I know I have said it before but focus on mite control and insure that your bees have plenty of nutrition and you ought to do well. Kentucky winters aren't hard on bees as long as they have the population and resources to raise plenty of young bees in Sept. and Oct. This takes no parasites and plenty of food to accomplish. Keep up the good work!

[@badassbees3680]

Try adding MORE sugar to your water before you just assume nature's so awesome they won't take a very close,free meal, usually too much water to fight thru to get very lil Sugar, forget 1:1 rule...make syrup

[@DrzJunior14]

Kamon Reynolds is the best beekeeper on youtube. You have guided me through my first hive and split this year. Loving your content from Wilkesboro, NC!

[@ginomorris4873]

Nobody deserves it more than you and yours kamon you and your mrs give us all so much ..I owe my success to your efforts to help new bee keepers learn how to keep bees thank you..I'm praying your yards explode with honey !!!

[@donbearden1953]

Thanks Kamon and Laurel for the video! I’m so glad that your honey production is looking up from what you originally thought! It definitely looks good to me, I’ve even been able to harvest a little this season. Of course my 3 grown children have come looking for some but that’s what Dads are for! Almost everyone loves honey!

[@mike-md]

Kamon, great to see things going well in that yard and the happy energy it brings you!! Thanks for taking the time in your busy schedule to do a video.

[@ronsims3035]

Laurel he's like a Kid in a Candy store!!!!!! Glad to see the honey coming in hopefully you can salvage some of the season!!!!! God Bless!!!

[@attesmatte]

Great to hear that you probably will get a better yield from this yard than you thought! I'm happy for y'all! 😀

[@edwardclark2695]

Like to hear someone who encourages others. God bless 🐦

[@yasminnilima2366]

Kul att se att fler har hittat hit! Kamon and family are making a big difference in the beeworld! Sharing knowledge and love for bees! You both know I love you!

[@pnwRC.]

It's good to see the girls will be giving you some of the golden goodness this year. We're anxious watching to see how well your girls do for you with this years production.

[@zacharykrawczyk3942]

Due to some issues it looks like I won't have a honey harvest from my three hives here in Indiana. I hope you don't mind if I'm living vicariously through your videos instead!

[@lkmary1]

Thanks, Kamon, for another great video. I always learn something. Good luck with your honey production.

[@kstu8560]

I’m glad to see you looking a lot happier then you were a few weeks back! 👍🏻

[@ohiorenegades7999]

Finally,a honey video. Great work you guys!!!

[@jweaver7170]

So good to see ya smiling and happy. great job and the Laurel laugh keep em coming

[@mattsara2802]

Thanks for videos it’s getting me excited for some honey 🍯

[@roddowsett7661]

Good onya Kamon, looks like this season will be better then your last. I’ve just planted out two paddock of white clover hoping to benefit from, after loosing a lot of our eucalyptus trees from our recent bushfires fingers crossed ✌️

[@mikeries8549]

How to dry honey: We set up a stand with a window screen on it. Stack wet supers with a box fan on top pulling air up thru the stack. Where? In the living room by the big window air conditioner. We run it on 68F and it dries our honey out. It takes time but not that long. The window screen it to keep pet hairs out. We have a big yellow dog named Milo.

[@ابنآدم-ز2ف]

It's probably disguised bear not a dog :p

[@mark-wn5ek]

Remind me not buy any.

[@FloryJohann]

Gonna be some dusty dirty honey. No thanks.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

LOL, all of the tall gifts ha ha ha

[@kamonreynolds]

Laurel asked me why I said that and I responded "heck if I know". My mouth can run circles around my mind. Gets me in deep crap from time to time. All well, I run fast.

[@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog]

Probably why most watch you lol keep up the good work , cheers!

[@stevewelches1955]

Would you please explain the difference between dry camping and wet capping and is one better than the other in general. Loved the tip with the cockeyed lid forcing the bees down. Will remember that one for use in the future. Thanks

[@familyonamissiongo4790]

My bees absconded leaving brood bees, larva, and capped brood, my question, can I save the hive by requeening and feeding the brood sugar water? I only have the one hive, thank you

[@buttsbeesllc4063]

You probably don't have enough to requeen. They need a field force and at least a few cups of bees to make a hive viable for winter. Sorry!

[@familyonamissiongo4790]

Butts Bees LLC bummer, thank you

[@daviddowen3887]

Glad to see your honey season isn't as bad as you were thinking it would be. Your demeanor has been totally different in your recent videos, PTL! How tall are you anyway? I'm 5'7" and think I'm on the short side also.

[@kamonreynolds]

Thanks David I am 5'6" so i consider myself at times vertically challenged but it's nothin a step latter won't fix :-)

[@daviddowen3887]

​@@kamonreynolds It's all good! Short people live longer and fit on airplanes! We can always get a ladder. When your tall you just have to suffer, lol!

[@FernvalleyFarm]

Looks great love seeing honey frames full i have a few filling up now all our clover is blooming now and all the wild flowers are about to pop also looks great thanks

[@davidloucky3566]

Kamon: Thanks for finally showing me how to put the fume board on, with exits on the corners! Of course!

[@normabroussard9560]

I am so happy y’all going to get some honey

[@kamonreynolds]

Meeeeeee too!

[@pnwRC.]

Mr Stimpler's (hopefully I spelt that right) lift truck is definitely a useful tool for the apiary. I'd almost say with an operation of that scale a bee truck like his would be a necessary tool to have.

[@eggshoney7633]

Kamon, back in the 70s we used ti have patform shoes, in the UK. Just a thought for those large hives.

[@joshwelton4868]

Enjoyed the video thanks again. Learning lots.

[@paulawaldrep3760]

May the Lord multiply that production for you, if it could be HIS WILL!!! :)

[@newatthis50]

Beautiful Tennessee!!

[@joer5627]

Pulling the last of my frames this weekend. Like you, things are turning out a bit better than it looked earlier. May stick them in a small room w/a dehumidifier if needed. Appreciate your videos.

[@badassbees3680]

I've never had that work...I tried one more time last year, I built plastic tent over supers with dehumidifier.. still fermented Sooo hard it messed up caps ,I mean bout a blowout, and I even had Alot of Capped honey,I've never had the "won't shake out" method work, fermented every time

[@danskisbees7348]

Good morning! Looks like you're going to need a stool on some of them, good deal.👍

[@ECP]

Glad you did get yourself some honey 🍯

[@OklahomaBeekeeper]

"WHAT!,"no white T-shirt! So you do reverse splits? Pulling out the queen a week or so before the nectar flow, so after the brood left is raised and capped those nurse bees get recruited for forging. I do that

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey malcolm I like leaving them queen right thru the honey flow BUT if they keep building cells I go ahead and yank the queen and some bees and drop a cell or mated queen. I am familiar with the method you speak of. But I like keeping young bees in the hives so that I can split them right after the flow is over.

[@jpthedelawarebeeman6239]

Hi Kamon, great news on my grafts - well it looks like the 3rd time is the charm I got 23 out of 30 to take.... I'm excited. 2 things I did that might have helped was I didn't use any eggs that may have bumped the sides when taking them from the donor frame and I added my nurse bees. I did use a different hive for the donor larva not sure if that matters.

[@burleybeeyard]

What if you have several uncapped frames. How long do you give bees to cap? Do you check moisture with refractometer on site before pulling?

[@برانيبراني-ز1ف]

Your business appears quickly 👍👍👍

[@paulawaldrep3760]

No! No Fool, just like a kid in a candy store! Same difference!!! Both sweet! :)

[@redfearnteal6896]

YOU MISSED A HIVE BEETLE AT 3:02

[@joecarrtn5137]

Thanks Kamon. In this particular bee yard in the video how many hives do you have?

[@kamonreynolds]

47 if i remember right Joe

[@nathanl8916]

I have a hive that I noticed went queenless about 2 weeks ago. They didn't create any queen cells so I introduced one about a week ago. They tore it open through the side. I tried again a few days ago and the same thing. Doesn't appear to have a laying worker yet...no eggs or larva, just older capped brood. Any ideas on next steps? I could buy a queen, but worry they will just kill her too at this point. Can I just divide the bees and brood to other healthy hives? Do I need to dump the bees out first? Thanks. Great videos and info.

[@richardkuhn8115]

Good stuff guys! Great for you. I have a couple of full Capped honey boxes still on several hives. Last year I pulled the Capped Honey and extracted it BEFORE I checked it with a Refractometer. The % of moisture read 20-21%. If I leave the capped boxes on the hive, will they be OK? Will the honey lose some more of it's moisture? Will the bees consume the honey before I get to extract it, waiting for it to cure more? I had to consume or make Mead out of last year's crop. Afraid it would ferment after it was sold. Blessings.

[@parttimefarmer1086]

How much honey do you leave the bees in your area or do you just feed to make up?

[@kamonreynolds]

I leave them all the fall flow and just a little from the spring flow. After we pull spring we feed a little prior to fall

[@3Beehivesto300]

Fume board... I didn’t know you could set it with air gaps. I always matched the corners. I use the smell good stuff.

[@christina5588]

I have always left gaps, it produces a draft and pulls the fume down into the hive...that's how I learned to use them.

[@NielsenValleyFarms]

How do you get them to dehydrate the nectar so fast? Screened bottom board?

[@kamonreynolds]

Hey Landon all solids in this yard. Big population does alot of fanning I guess

[@NielsenValleyFarms]

@@kamonreynolds awesome thanks for the info. Someone told me I needed a screened bottom board and screened top to increase honey dehydration speed. But it looks like you are doing very well without

[@trichard5106]

Thanks !!

[@CELOCKSAFE]

nice fashion statement!! LOL My big problem this year has been laying workers. Queens keep disappearing.

[@framcesmoore]

this may be a dumb question how can a dehumidifier help when they only pull down to 30 that is the lowest . This was a great video thanks

[@rajbeekie7124]

That is a great question. Here is my guess. Let's say the humidity is 90% and the honey is 18%. The differemce is 72%. Now, with a hunimdfer bringing the humidity down to 10% the differece is only 12%. I believe the great the difference the more likley the honey will absorb the moisture. To take moisture out of the frames I generally run a heater and a fan.

[@catchemalive]

Kamon, I noticed you don’t seem to have any top entrances? Do you have any videos about that subject? I was debating on whether or not to use a top entrance.

[@shrevesoule3567]

At first I thought you borrowed your wife's fancy dinner gloves to work the bees! ;-)

[@mikeries8549]

We are looking forward to clover honey harvest here. We have not had a good clover flow for almost 3 yrs. Ours comes from white clover. How we can tell if its clover honey is it is so sweet it stings the back of your throat a little bit. Clover honey does that.

[@robertmathurin739]

No,,You're Not Acting like A Fool!!,, That is the Effects of Mother Nature,,at her best,, what's better than Producing your own Honey,,😅 🇱🇨👊🏿👍🏿🖤

[@beekeepingrealtor2453]

pulled a bunch of frames not capped at all. Refracted 12% But my weather is a built in dehumidifier at 5-10% humidity

[@familyhearingandbalancecen9777]

Kaymon, Can you please share thoughts on wooden frames vs plastic as I’ve pulled just a few deep honey frames and they broke. I glued and nailed them but wonder if they weaken over time. They’re only about 2 years old? Thanks!

[@kamonreynolds]

It is odd that your frames broke already. 2 years is not very old. I do prefer wood myself. in cold weather plastic frames can get brittle and crack or break. If you don't already know you can buy frame repair metal what nots at the bee supplies. I always keep a couple dozen of those around.

[@familyhearingandbalancecen9777]

Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees thank you Kaymon. Maybe I didn’t add enough glue? Appreciate your ideas of the repair metal.

[@roneasterling2792]

How much honey do you leave for them for the winter in a single Brood chamber

[@kamonreynolds]

The equivalent 4-5 deep frames.

[@mohammadzhianasadzadeh5461]

Could you please in one video show us how you keep your mated queens at home? Could we keep queens without attendants? Thanks

[@buttsbeesllc4063]

mated queens can be banked. No attendants in the cage but the cages must be kept in a hive.

[@melissaaudler8975]

How do you know how much honey to leave them to make it threw? If you leave them to much could it cause robbing? I understand it's all in trial and error but is there a loose rule to go by?

[@somewheretennessee1507]

I live in East Tennessee and want to start bee keeping any tips

[@burleybeeyard]

Watch all his videos

[@backyardbeekeeping4863]

Find a good mentor in your area, someone with proven success and try to get in their yard and work some bees there

[@FloryJohann]

Join a bee club and get a mentor and take courses at bee school, get a good bee keeping book. Read and watch videos a lot and surf the internet.

[@natserog]

do you use 9 frame spacers with deep honey supers?

[@kamonreynolds]

yes 9. Doing about 30 8's this year we will see how it goes

[@stgermain1074]

What makes a good bee yard? Just the plants around it? What about sunny vs shady?

[@thatguy3456]

Kamon do you think bees forage more when they have a queen or when they are queenless.

[@royhendershot]

Kamon, was that a fume board you put cockeyed on that super. If so, what do you use to fume.

[@kamonreynolds]

Honey Bandit Roy. It works real well and kinda smells nice.

[@cherimolina2121]

Question...caught swarm. Can I set em in hive where I caught em and remove trap hive, or move em up by my house (over 100yds). Going to be raining by weekend...for all next week. Anyone..ideas?

[@mikeries8549]

I catch a lot of swarms from my own bees. Usually I'll leave them where I catch them but sometimes they need to move. I just wait until dark then move the hive. Sometimes I'll bury the entrance in leafy branches hoping to force bees to re-orient. It doesn't always work but the field bees you lose are close to dying of old age anyways. They beg their way into other hives. If they're carrying food it's allowed.

[@backyardbeekeeping4863]

Once you move the queen the others will follow, just shift all the frames from the trap into their new home, and leave the trap hive open and leaning on the new hive, that way they can find their way in

[@SRW1955]

60#s . Is that pretty close to one full deep ?

[@kamonreynolds]

60# is close

[@natserog]

Kamon....do you haver get some frames of honey that have a hard like pollen under a thin layer of honey? What causes that?? thanks

[@kamonreynolds]

sounds like they are preserving bee bread to me. If the bees have excess they will place a small bit if honey over beebread and cap it

[@SRW1955]

👍

[@rossg87]

Is there a product you prefer on your fume boards?

[@kamonreynolds]

honey bandit

[@philjanikjr9805]

What do you use on your fume board? How do you move your supers? Lift system?

[@gibbsadventures12]

With your hives that our producing well and getting to high why would you not pull off some of the supers?

[@2kings3queens]

Why the Gloves Kamon? Thanks for the video

[@kamonreynolds]

I wear them when I am in a hurry. Fast hands get stung sometimes or grab a bee! We were busy that day. Should have a video on the honey pull before long

[@mustafabahnes6592]

Mashallah

[@tristonosborne5537]

What’s a good fluid to test your refractomiter?

[@buttsbeesllc4063]

olive oil

[@researcherAmateur]

No yes or no in beekeeping.. if the flow is not strong and the cells are not filed to the top they will not cap it but the honey in is good. One of my flows gives honey thet is needed to bi capt just 30%. Dificult to ecstract. With thet much rain you cood have a good long summer flow.. I have a year like thet evre 5 and a crop of small flovers like mints and origano with rasberry, i think your name.. thet plant in Richard Noel last video. Good to see you with a smile.. o man, i needed just one year to see i'm writing qween all the time. One by one, queen from now

[@1TexasSon]

What is the silver film under the hive top called, where can someone purchase it?

[@shanesquire1]

I PUT IN A MATED QUEEN IN A CAGE IN A HIVE , SHE WAS THERE FOR A WEEK THE BEES DID NOT EAT THE CANDY. SO I LET HER OUT THEN THE BEES BALL HER . WHY ?

[@FloryJohann]

Why are you screaming?

[@SRW1955]

So !!!!! Is it location ????? Or genetics? Or Both ?

[@kamonreynolds]

location. and weather. then genetics IMO

[@SRW1955]

Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees 🌻🌼🌸🌹🌷💐❤️❤️❤️

[@badassbees3680]

You ever have em grow beautiful nests instead of honey? I feed mine up so put flow right into supers, and sometimes they pack it all in Broodnest anyway irritates me to no end,bad thing about dbls..

[@kamonreynolds]

Oh yeah man some are bad about that. Part of my queen breeding is selecting from those that are good about clearing space out of the brood nests and placing it out of her way. I still have a ways to go in that regard

[@badassbees3680]

@@kamonreynolds me too definitely, I have some of the most beautiful broodnest, I mean flat grow bees and not have a drop in Super, even with drawn comb on some,I can kinda understand the foundation ones, like their spoiled and don't wanna draw any comb to move it up even when checkerboarded

[@christina5588]

What do you use on your fume board.