Coloured Thymol syrup

[pargyle]

Have you two been drinking the stuff?

Hic ... Burp ....sniff ... snuff

 

[For want of a better word]

Pair of Thymol sniffers if you ask me

Wonderous stuff that thymol..... cures the pox, the itch removes warts and fungus infections on toe and finger nails.
Pargyle Speciality Products (PSP) are selling 10ml files of .005% tincture in alcohol including indigo carmine tracer dye at £29.99 for a packet of three... deal of the century!

Chons da

 

[bobba]

I thought I would give colored syrup, when I was in the shop they only had blue green or yellow in stock. So I tried the blue, but it is not very strong and I need to put a lot in to change the color of the syrup.

What colors have any of you lot tried in the past? And what would you recommend?

Thanks as always.

 

[XYZ]

I might have some food colouring left over. Think it's red. Could give that a go, although I think my colonies aren't going to need feed for another couple of weeks.

 

[Erichalfbee]

A user has been reported in this thread for making jokes thereby preventing any sensible further input, so let’s calm down. It’s the beginners section. It was asked whether you can dye syrup that has thymol in it. The answer is yes and any food dye will do.
Thymol stinks. Dying thymolised syrup to identify its destination is a little unnecessary though.

 

[Barbarian]

Coloured syrup

In the states, some suppliers use coloured syrup in refills for humming bird feeders.

Some beekeepers have problems with coloured stores and even coloured bees.

 

[pargyle]

A user has been reported in this thread for making jokes thereby preventing any sensible further input, so let’s calm down. It’s the beginners section. It was asked whether you can dye syrup that has thymol in it. The answer is yes and any food dye will do.
Thymol stinks. Dying thymolised syrup to identify its destination is a little unnecessary though.

The implication being that new beekeepers have no sense of humour ? ... They won't last long as beekeepers if they don't have one ... sometimes the only action left is to laugh ! Otherwise you'd slash your wrists ...

 

[Erichalfbee]

The implication being that new beekeepers have no sense of humour ? ... They won't last long as beekeepers if they don't have one ... sometimes the only action left is to laugh ! Otherwise you'd slash your wrists ...

I agree which is why I haven't deleted anything
The idea of not being able to identify thymol in your frames of stores.......

 

[pargyle]

I agree which is why I haven't deleted anything
The idea of not being able to identify thymol in your frames of stores.......

I thought that was a joke ?

 

[Erichalfbee]

I thought that was a joke ?

 

[Beefriendly]

I agree which is why I haven't deleted anything
The idea of not being able to identify thymol in your frames of stores.......

About 4 years ago I totally lost my sense of smell....please tell me how I can identify thymol in my frames...
Personally I don't find this very funny.

 

[Erichalfbee]

About 4 years ago I totally lost my sense of smell....please tell me how I can identify thymol in my frames...
Personally I don't find this very funny.

So sorry, Beefriendly. That must be just awful. Taste and smell are so intertwined.
My taste has gone completely awry after radiation and the only way I can "taste" some things is by passing the smell as I'm chewing back through my nose.

Back to your question though I'm afraid I can't offer a solution except to have maybe a proxy...or even a food taster.

 

[For want of a better word]

So sorry, Beefriendly. That must be just awful. Taste and smell are so intertwined.
My taste has gone completely awry after radiation and the only way I can "taste" some things is by passing the smell as I'm chewing back through my nose.

Back to your question though I'm afraid I can't offer a solution except to have maybe a proxy...or even a food taster.

I bet Millet could train one of his hounds to detect and sniff out thymol... quite what one does about your lack of taste I do not know!

Chons da

 

[Erichalfbee]

About 4 years ago I totally lost my sense of smell....please tell me how I can identify thymol in my frames...
Personally I don't find this very funny.

Actually, Beefriendly I know you use thymol in your syrup. How do you avoid getting it in your honey? It might help some folk who are thinking of dying their syrup.....unless, of course you do

 

[Spanker]

Thanks for all the help guys and im sure most newbees have a sense of humur, as long as your not getting trolled for asking advice i dont see any harm in having a bit of banter. granted like any forum the same old questions will get asked over and over and no doubt get a bit tedious.
i normaly use the search button so dont post much as most of the questions i have have already been asked.

While were on thymol i mixed some up as per hive makers emulsion, left it a couple of days and it developed a crust on top. is this normal?
put it in a bowl of hot water and it disolved again does this normaly happen?

 

[Beefriendly]

So sorry, Beefriendly. That must be just awful. Taste and smell are so intertwined.
My taste has gone completely awry after radiation and the only way I can "taste" some things is by passing the smell as I'm chewing back through my nose.

Back to your question though I'm afraid I can't offer a solution except to have maybe a proxy...or even a food taster.

It wasn't a good time...Big connection with small and taste... I had to use stronger tasting foods to taste anything...so I sympathise with your predicament. On the bright side my feet didn't smell
Had an op to reconnect/clear things a year or so ago, got partial smell back but difficult.

Never worried about thymol syrup in supers....it's usually used up by spring.

 

[Beefriendly]

While were on thymol i mixed some up as per hive makers emulsion, left it a couple of days and it developed a crust on top. is this normal?
put it in a bowl of hot water and it disolved again does this normaly happen?

As I've said many time...leave the lecithin out, it's not required to prevent mould etc.
See Manley 1946....

 

[Erichalfbee]

Never worried about thymol syrup in supers....it's usually used up by spring.

Yep
I have to pull the odd brood frame from the poly hives but those get used up in splits

 

[Millet]

Does it not start loosing it's smell once it has passed through the bees and stored in the cells..i have a good sense of smell and the smell of thymol is none existent in my hives come spring even with stores left over.

 

[Ian123]

I’ve been putting thymol in syrup for nearly 20 years and not had any complaints or noticed any contamination myself. I feed thymol in the autumn, I remove any syrup/honey clogged frames in the spring and reserve for nucs. Spring feed is normally thymol free apart from a splash of surgical spirit that stops the mould. Never felt the need to colour it and not had complaints, also don’t add the lecithin.