Osr

[Millet]

Millet why do you not take note of your own tag line?

With certain people using multiple names on the forum i find it difficult to take some posts seriously.

 

[Finman]

With certain people using multiple names on the forum i find it difficult to take some posts seriously.

Don't worry. You have that Take Seriously Radar. The pee.
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[linoleum bonypart]

Just get it off early and into buckets

 

[thorn]

With certain people using multiple names on the forum i find it difficult to take some posts seriously.

He/she throws out the insults, but gives no reason, or apology, for his own original insulting post.

 

[Hebeegeebee]

0.7 miles is not that far, bees will fly a lot further than that - if the OSR yields well your bees will pile it in. Usually bland in flavour and aroma from my experience.

By asking the question you are thinking ahead - not all beekeepers do that and if you don't, you come up with problems and bees won't wait for you to get your act together.

 

[bontbee]

Because you can’t smell it doesn’t mean others can’t. PTC tasters for a start and there are plenty of those. I have a huge Mahonia in the garden and to me the scent is overpowering. My husband,on the other hand, can’t smell a thing. He can smell bluebells but I can’t. To me OSR smells and tastes like cabbage.

Sorry to disagree PH but my abiding memory of opening a jar of OSR honey is the smell of.....cabbage.

 

[maddydog]

Sorry to disagree PH but my abiding memory of opening a jar of OSR honey is the smell of.....cabbage.

You're just spoilt!

Amusing how something that is clearly down to personal taste causes such heated debate (but then on here I shouldn't be surprised )

 

[Brian Bush]

With certain people using multiple names on the forum i find it difficult to take some posts seriously.

Why not just 'call them out' so we all know? This use of multiple names is, I agree, really annoying. I am, however a little perplexed as to how the original question of this thread is going to give anyone a 'thrill' by posting it or get a 'kick' out of the replies?

 

[Etton]

Great pic 'Plenty of Honey', but why so much of pollen on the omf...or is it some kind of pollen catcher in operation?

 

[simonforeman]

Thanks all to the ones with positive replys...

So thoughts are that bees may not collect lots of osr with oter flowets available. Would all still harvest honey after osr has finished flowering just in case it is majority and sets?

Thanks simon

 

[simonforeman]

Guys... didnt realise there were 3 pages of posts when i sent my reply...

I can assure millet and the rest on here that i am not who he thinks i am. Please ask peter d whos been a member on here a long time, i used to work with him and a friend on facebook. He has seen my post on there of the 2 new moved hives set up and commented.

Millet please do not start scare mongering of new members like me and get me a bad name without proof... i may ask stupid questions to you but as orhers have said i have to.learn somewhere.

I may have asked another on my previous post sorry

 

[Millet]

Guys... didnt realise there were 3 pages of posts when i sent my reply...

I can assure millet and the rest on here that i am not who he thinks i am. Please ask peter d whos been a member on here a long time, i used to work with him and a friend on facebook. He has seen my post on there of the 2 new moved hives set up and commented.

Millet please do not start scare mongering of new members like me and get me a bad name without proof... i may ask stupid questions to you but as orhers have said i have to.learn somewhere.

I may have asked another on my previous post sorry

Ok Sorry.. .. regarding OSR if you suspect it is in the area you are better of keeping a eye on your honey stores regardless of other forage available, research Refractometers, they are a device that will tell you the moisture content of your honey which needs to be around 18% but lower than 20% , i had a frames of mixed nectar honey a couple of years back which also had OSR in it, the refractometer was reading 17% and the bees had still not capped it so by the time it was capped it would have been like concrete, OSR contaminated honey from experience needs extracting before a 3rd of the frame is capped but a refractometer will let you know either way.

 

[drex]

My spring harvest is mainly OSR. Weight wise it is about equal to the autumn harvest. The majority of my customers ( regulars and word of mouth) express a preference for the spring crop. If you suspect any OSR in your crop, get it off early. I can see the fields round my apiary, which is situated on the edge of town, and take off the spring crop as soon as the OSR fields go over. Even then some will have set, but I am too lazy to extract more than once per crop. As above, lots of the frames will still be uncapped but pass the water content test. ( a shake at the apiary and refractometer in my extraction room) . Set frames ( not all cells will be set solid), get a spray of water and are given back to the bees. Does not seem to affect setting of the Autumn crop, which I presume may have a higher fructose content, as my Autumn crop ( the little I have left) is still runny and clear - not heat treated.

 

[Beefriendly]

Ignore. Repeat post.

 

[maddydog]

I may have asked another on my previous post sorry

You have nothing to apologize for. Hopefully the behaviour of one hasn't put you off posting.

Chances are they'll forage on the osr. If you've the time to micromanage your hives then you could take a few frames at a time after shake testing. If you extract in one go after the osr has finished then be prepared for some solid frames.

 

[Brian Bush]

Ok Sorry.. .. .

Well done Millet for apologising

 

[Beefriendly]

Worth mentioning that setting of OSR honey in the frames occurs more slowly in Poly hives than wood. I found out the hard way when I was running both types of hive, several frames had set solid in the wooden hives but just an occasional set cell in the odd frame in poly.

 

[colinc]

Also worth bearing in mind that even if they don’t forage the OSR lots of our other spring crop producers will granulate as well. As stated, shake test a few full frames late June when the OSR is fading from flower and extract if necessary.


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[sean-a]

Is it just me that finds the perpetual petty squabbles on this forum tiresome?

I have had a couple of pretty much cropless years, so cabbages or not, I want some this year!