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I was wondering if any members here have ever creamed Borage Honey? If so what did it turn out like?

My sample was taken on 12/092021, the moister contents was 15%

Just putting this out here, how many forum members II queens, I was thinking it may be a good idea to create a Forum here covering the II of queens. I have just completed a course on II and now need to practice to increase my confidence in using this technique.

Sorry I gave them all away to another beekeeper, Mini Plus are so much cheaper to buy and suit me better.

I am producing more and more labels with the tamper attached, it saves so much time, with added bonus of a hand label machine. They really are a game changer.

I have moved away from the Apidea's, simply got fed up of them absconding, I tried almost everything. I have now started using Mini Plus, have not had any issues with them so far.

I tried the a few years ago, bit of a pain to apply to large quantities of jars, they were the heat shrink type.

No, I made split from a strong Nuc making sure the queen was left in the original, the frame that the queen was caged on was a frame of emerging brood. Its been a terrible year for introducing queens for me, thats why I tried this method.

I said I would update followers what happened! Well not good news I looked in yesterday and the frame had loads of young bees all emerged with the new queen, and the breeder queen laying dead at the bottom of the cage. Such is life, god only knows what's happened. I'll give it another go next week.

I have as I type got a breeder queen in one of the Abelo/Lyson frames cages, I have a frame of emerging bees in the frame cage and the new breeder queen. I'll leave it for a few day and release her when I'm happy that she's laying. I'll post an update in the next few days.

This has been sold - someone had a right bargain!

I now buy Dadant super frames and cut the top bar down to suit, far cheaper that what I could find, £36 for 50, in the sales.

You can Nuc the queen after the eggs have hatched, why not then use the same hive which will be Q- to rear your cells. They'll rear 20 cells all day long.

Last season I moved from Apidea's to Mini Plus, with the Mini Plus you can over winter queens in them. Thornes are the cheapest and extra BB's are £7.70 each.

I believe Maisemore are selling seconds on eBay - do a search, as almost every rely states the is nothing wrong with seconds, and for god sake don't buy assembled ones!

I was sick and tired of the 'Chef' type ones, they just stop igniting so today I bought one from 'Tool Station' self igniting for £24.64 (92494). I have a Rothenberger Superfire 2 which I use for plumbing, this is way too expensive to leave in my apiary. Thats why I opted for the cheaper one...

Thats good to know, I only produce around 1700 - 340g jars in a season and the cost of a dedicated pump does not warrant the outlay.

Do any member here use their jarring machine to pump honey? I have a Swienty Table Top Filling Station, the information says it can be used for pumping honey, I would imagine its useful for small quantities.

£520 just to sell honey in a store! Did they cover the cost of the tank? I was going to suggest a heat mat like a propagation mat, this would give enough heat to stop granulation. I do like the idea of a jar return scheme and having labels printed with removable glue, just to conform with...

I set my warmer to 40C, normally it softens overnight, sometimes it needs a stir.