My bees are on OSR and I seem to my untrained eye to have the following on three hives;
First hive with 2 brood boxes top brood box looks like capped honey as done first super next super has uncapped honey and top super not a lot.
Second hive seems ok super has uncapped honey
Third hive (which is a result of No2 swarming earlier) looks ok with uncapped honey in super, but some silly beginner forgot to put the QE on last time ( me of course) so bit dodgy.
I thought to go on UT and see what next, i have an extractor but no experience of use, low and behold conflicting views! Ted Hooper says do not use any method of making the bees leave the honey apart from literally taking them off manually (feather) and extracting straight away as OSR will crystalise immediately others say use a one way and then heat the honey. The question is woyuld someone kindly tell me a method that has worked for them as I understand that if left more than seven days after capping OSR honey is useless.............tastes good though.
First hive with 2 brood boxes top brood box looks like capped honey as done first super next super has uncapped honey and top super not a lot.
Second hive seems ok super has uncapped honey
Third hive (which is a result of No2 swarming earlier) looks ok with uncapped honey in super, but some silly beginner forgot to put the QE on last time ( me of course) so bit dodgy.
I thought to go on UT and see what next, i have an extractor but no experience of use, low and behold conflicting views! Ted Hooper says do not use any method of making the bees leave the honey apart from literally taking them off manually (feather) and extracting straight away as OSR will crystalise immediately others say use a one way and then heat the honey. The question is woyuld someone kindly tell me a method that has worked for them as I understand that if left more than seven days after capping OSR honey is useless.............tastes good though.