Honey always the same

[Levitt53]

I live on the edge of a big village. There is oil seed rape fairly near me every years. I've taken 5 or 6 batches of honey over the last few years at different times and it's always been roughly the same colour and consistency. I've never seen it crystalise in the bucket although I have seen some crystalised in the comb which I think might have been last years' ivy. We extracted two supers yesterday and one frame was decidedly lighter but it's all gone in the mix. Is this normal?

 

[enrico]

They can differ so much.....or not. In Shropshire every box was different in colour and texture. In Somerset always the same.... Sometimes you will get different densities and they will split in the jar, crystallised at the bottom and runny at the top, the trouble then is although it is perfectly ok it looks mouldy!
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[pargyle]

I live on the edge of a big village. There is oil seed rape fairly near me every years. I've taken 5 or 6 batches of honey over the last few years at different times and it's always been roughly the same colour and consistency. I've never seen it crystalise in the bucket although I have seen some crystalised in the comb which I think might have been last years' ivy. We extracted two supers yesterday and one frame was decidedly lighter but it's all gone in the mix. Is this normal?

It all depends on what they foraged on ... how much of the forage there was and when you extract and how you extract ... I detect a difference between spring honey extracted early after the spring flow and the summer honey extracted at
The emd of the season. If you have access to
Intensive forage such as rape, borage and lime and extract immediately after these flows have finished you will see a very noticeable difference in single crop honeys. The more it gets mixed in a general forage area the more it will have very general characteristics.