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I'm not getting involved! I'm feeding fondant!,,,,
1:1, I agree. Try that with 2:1 and you will stir till the end of time.25kg bags of sugar, water in 25l containers poured in a drum. Turn the mixer on and walk away. It need not be any more complicated than that.
Lol no 2-1 works just fine. I certainly don’t do any of the stirring.1:1, I agree. Try that with 2:1 and you will stir till the end of time.
Consider yourself lambasted! 1:1 is a pound in a pint. 2:1 is two pounds in a pint. Those are not the same as a kilo in a litre or two kilos in a litre. They are close enough not to matter with 1:1 (+/- 10pct or so: who cares: the bees don't). But at 2:1 you are straddling the limit of solubility. At 20C two pounds of sugar will dissolve in a pint of water but two kilos will not dissolve in a litre. It's pretty easy to convert exactly: a pint is 20oz, right? So for each "one water" you need 1.25 when converting to weights. And 2kg of sugar indeed dissolves into 1.25l of water at 20C. Your ready-reckoned 1kg in 1pt will not dissolve.
As for making 50 gallons, keep debating on here! I'd make up my first batch, stick a drop in my hygrometer and work out how much 50 gal. is going to weigh and take it from there.
Can you share the gist?Really good article in BeeCraft this month re sugar syrup…… we are overthinking it a bit!
yes it does , noticed a similarity to this a few days back about another subject , the post just started in midair as though all routes etc had been removed.Something strange seems to be happening with the forum posts. This thread started in February from a beekeeper who is shown as joining a few years ago and was asking about mixing 1:1 presumably to kickstart spring expansion. Now we're approaching winter feeding it's resurrected and despite mixing syrup being discussed ad nauseum every year the merry go round is running yet again. We don't currently see the quote "think" as oft as previous years but this is a subject which would really merit thinking about what the forum search facility could be used for.
Something strange seems to be happening with the forum posts. This thread started in February from a beekeeper who is shown as joining a few years ago and was asking about mixing 1:1 presumably to kickstart spring expansion. Now we're approaching winter feeding it's resurrected and despite mixing syrup being discussed ad nauseum every year the merry go round is running yet again. We don't currently see the quote "think" as oft as previous years but this is a subject which would really merit thinking about what the forum search facility could be used for.
I would have thought that the fact the thread has been resurrected was enough of a hintSo the 'system' sort of works, might be useful if "a needs further discussion" sticker or similar got attached, implying that more information is required.
You assume too muchI would have thought that the fact the thread has been resurrected was enough of a hint
Not as simple as my (and victor’s and pargyle’s) method though
In a nutshell, we all get a bit hung up on sugar ratios - as long as the proportions of light and heavy syrup are roughly 1:1 or 2:1 by either volume or weight, that’s close enough. Bees don’t care about precise percentages as natural nectar can range hugely between 4 - 70% sugar and it’s doubtful that any nectar occurs in these exact ratios! Plus there is no need to pay for inverted syrup as it’s ‘better for bees to digest’ - bees have invertase in their salivary glands which starts to work on nectar to break it down into glucose and fructose and other simple sugars so will do the same with sugar syrup, adding other enzymes in the process to invert and acidify the syrup naturally.Can you share the gist?
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