I knew there would be one! Just because it's not what you do doesn't mean it makes no sense. 
Yes, presumably crystallised stores remaining in the frames during extraction as opposed to the standard residue of extracted honey.
But he has mentioned extraction. Have you read post #5 ?
Similar happens to me most years with heather as I often get mixed heather&normal honey in the same frame. On my small scale its manageable with little hassle, but shall try using sections at the right time this year.
Good plan Murox. I get a honey here, from a small type of tree, that almost crystallises as you are extracting it. It completely failed this year because it relies on rain...so I barely had any issues with crystallisation, but the manuka was good, so I picked up some problems with that.
Yes that's what I do usually.
Sections or comb in little containers solves a few niggles quite well.Good plan Murox. I get a honey here, from a small type of tree, that almost crystallises as you are extracting it. It completely failed this year because it relies on rain...so I barely had any issues with crystallisation, but the manuka was good, so I picked up some problems with that.
I spoke to an old chap here recently who was from Dorset and he was telling me of the joys, as a boy, of heather comb honey harvesting with his grandfather... with bees on the commons. It was lovely to hear the delight in his voice all these years later. He reminisced of how really beautiful and special it was, fresh in the comb.
If you have areas of uncapped heather honey or crystalised honey, and you put it back on top surely the bees will cap it with little or no change, thus creating the same problem of unbalanced frames at the next extraction.
no they will clear it out and start again
Same hear, it was so hit and miss for most of the season. At one point I had managed to give my lot every wet super I had in an effort to avoid feeding them. Thankfully they came good in the end and filled a few of them for me. Interestingly I didn't get any appreciable heather this year either. Its within reach of the apiary.
You would be surprised at what the bees are capable of when it comes to rebuilding damaged comb. Just tidy up the broken bits and give them the frames back in spring .. they will sort them out. The comb that's not in the frames you can render down into beeswax - there is very little in beekeeping that has to be disposed of. There is a value to wax and even partly drawn frames are an asset.
Save it in a sealed bucket; after a while you'll have enough to melt & exchange for foundation.
Never was.
A tip: extract 80% of the honey slowly, accelerate reluctantly and run at full speed only when combs are nearly empty. If frames are unbalanced - some heavier, some partially crystallised, some with pollen - don't try and give them the fast 20%. Let the machine tell you!
I have heather on the doorstep but saw no evidence of foraging.......strange
Perhaps too cold or too dry to produce nectar; maybe insufficient ground moisture in May & June. More common on the sandy heaths we have down South than the moisture-retentive peat moors you have up North.
It has been a funny old year that's for sure.
I think it was the long cold spring that did the most damage, then everything on the mountain was knocked back, around here I almost invariably see heather flowering by the twelfth, this year no sign of it purpling up until weeks later and although I smelt some heather in the home hives, it was too little, too late before the weather took a downturn again.
