Sealed Honey

[andyww]

Hi,

I have a hive with 2 very heavy supers, its usual for the bee's not to have capped the bottom 15% of the frames.

I'm hopping to extract soon, next couple of weeks, should I extract these frames or leave them?

Thanks.

 

[JWF]

If it's only the bottom fifteen percent you'll be fine, even if it is not yet ripe. Quite possibly though, if you give it a shake and none drops out its ripe enough, just your bees are a little bit lazy

 

[andyww]

Ok thanks, these one's are pretty hard working to be honest, I think some of my others might be diabetic, given what they've accomplished so far....

 

[enrico]

Remember when it is all mixed together it evens out so 85 percent below the water limit and 15 percent that may be slightly above it will usually be fine. I take a reading from uncapped honey before I extract. A refractometer is worth its weight in gold!!
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[Finman]

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You could wait a week and look, what has happened to frames.
Unsealed means that they still fill the frames.

Have you put more supers, where bees store nectar?

 

[Beefriendly]

Remember when it is all mixed together it evens out so 85 percent below the water limit and 15 percent that may be slightly above it will usually be fine. I take a reading from uncapped honey before I extract. A refractometer is worth its weight in gold!!
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Thank goodness the legal limit is 20% water (with exceptions for heather [and others] at 23 %)...I've never ever had honey at 15% water. Most of this springs honey is around 18% water...and yes I do calibrate my refractometer annually...

 

[colinc]

We got no OSR this year but last year the OSR was 16-18% and completely uncapped when I extracted at the end of the flowering period. If left we would have lost it as it was on the point of starting to crystallise


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