Autumn feeding: 3 x 1kg bags of sugar mixed with one 1.5 litre electric kettle full of hot water.
Spring feeding: 3 bags of sugar mixed with two kettles of hot water.
Why make it complicated?
You are on the right lines, but the problem is that "2:1" as a standard doesn't refer to metric units!
It actually refers to those quaint and unrelated-to-eachother units, pints and pounds.
If you were to put your "metric 2:1" in a contact feeder, the bees' feeding would soon be blocked with a layer of sugar crystals!
If you want to make up the "2:1" mix that Hooper and others are talking about and you insist on using modern units that would puzzle Hooper, then your metric mix needs to be 1.6:1 ...
There is a long tradition of trying to make explanations of cricket to foreigners as unhelpful as possible.
Much of this thread seems to be in that noble tradition.
It really is simple.
2:1 and 1:1 refer to using different units for the two ingredients, water and sugar - pints and pounds.
However those same strengths are 1.6:1 and 0.8:1 when you do the rational thing and use the same (metric) measurement units for both ingredients.
Initially, I had thought that Icanhopit (a forum member in good standing) had just made a typo. But it seems that he was actually confused by relating a percentage to the wrong thing - and was spreading that confusion.
I should have realised that many others were also confused about something that is actually pretty simple.
Some people probably should not consider making up Oxalic Acid solutions ...
