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  • From: Peter Smith <psmith AT leaptec.com>
  • To: Orange Co Beekeepers <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ocba] Update from the Mountains
  • Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:14:37 +0000

For my first harvest up on Grandfather Mountain, only one of my hives from my initial 3 nucs produced a surplus. My use of a queen excluder resulted in 4 supers of mostly perfect frames, partly because all frames were drawn from scratch and consequently had never been harvested before. Total yield was over 100 pounds.

 

The interesting thing to me was that the nectar collected between early July and mid August produced an extremely light colored honey, much lighter than I had experienced in years of beekeeping in Hillsborough. It almost didn't look like honey at all! It had a unique delicate floral fragrance while extracting and overall lighter taste than normal. We extracted it separately from the honey produced earlier in the season (lower 2 supers)  and so ended up 2 different colors of honey. Could it be the rhododendron bloom which occurs around that time – I’m trying to find out from my local beekeeping group.

 

 

 

 

Peter Smith

 

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