get 100 + lbs from a SPLIT, .
Anyway, it means you still have much of a variation for selecting
May next year be better for you
Actually good yeidl comes from good pastures. To find good pastures is very important skill in beekeeping. Question is not only that hive is busy or lazy.
A key to big yields....
- plant species which excrete big nectar doplets (raspberry, fireweed). A bee gets stomach full quickly
- bee density on pastures is low that flowers are not empty when a bee start to lick nectar
- short flying distance back to hive, under 1 km
- various landscape, where wind does not disturbe bees work (vast fields are bad)
- the more good foraging weeks, the more yield
- If a big hive gets 50 kg raspberry honey in June, no hive can reach its yield later
- the hives may be equal big and good, but easily different pastures give 3-fold yield, and even 5 fold.
- Selecting what ---> good layers and good pastures.
- 4 box hive has not much capasity to handle nectar and it has not much foraging power. In good flow medium box be full in 3 days. And hive needs 2 boxes more where it store nectar and dry up it. Further more in good flow 3 brood boxes work as drying room.
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Better next year...Hardly . The yield period was extremely long. And then at the end of summer aphids gove 20-30 kg per hive honey dew.
Normal good yield period is 3 weeks long. Now yield period was 7 weeks. It is very rare. Splits captured half of their yield from honey dew. They got nothing in June.
My role: I move hives to good pastures. I follow some days the style of flight and compare to another places. If pasture was not good, I put hives onto sedan carry and then to next place. I moved one hive 3 times during one month, and then 4th movement back to home.
From Google earth I saw from satellite maps how much there are good pastures inside 1 km radius. That was really informative. It is better to be hundreds of hectares and not only tens and then 3 hives on the site.
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