supering today- honey tomorrow????

[esatula]

This is my first year and I installed 2 packages that are building at the same pace so I hope that things are good. well they pulled out 2 deeps full and I added 2 med supers to the top today on each.

The question I have is that I'm very excited that I might actually get some honey this year. Do you guy's think the up here in CT. that there might be enough flow till the end of the year that I might? I wasn't really planning on it and would be just happy if they pull out the 2 med supers. The frames in the supers are pierco 1pc plastic.

[Mitch]

I am not sure what your honey flow is doing in CT.
i keep reading on this site not to expect any honey from new packges but i usualy got a super or 2 and on a good year wehen all works out more from packages.Plastic is a bit harde to getthem to draw out.If you have 2 deeps full i think you will get a decent honey crop if the flow is there.

[Joel]

Your lindens or Basswood (OK techs I know basswood is a linden) should bloom the middle of July then a dearth for 2 weeks or so until sow thistle and teasel. Come the 3rd week of August when Golden Rod kicks up with a vengence you'll get honey. This has been an unusually good year in our area due to the unusually hot weather and generous rains. Kind of like a rainforest effect with exceptional bloom. If you have 2 deeps drawn and 6 weeks until the fall flow to build up I would expect to fill both honey supers, barring a late season drought.

[LEAD PIPE]

http://www.caes.state.ct.us/BeeInformation/BeekeeperFactSheets/Beekeeper3.pdf

This has a chart with the major flows in CT


I found this on the Basswoods

FLOWERS: The fragrant flowers of the Linden tree hang from the middle of leafy, ribbon-like green bracts in long-stalked clusters. The flowers are tiny, with 5 yellowish-white petals. During the last weeks of June and first weeks of July they exude a powerful, haunting scent that can be detected up to a mile away. The flowers possess a nectar which attracts bees and produces a strong flavored honey. When this tree is in flower it will be full of bees, hence its common name "Bee Tree". During the three weeks that the Lindens bloom, bees forsake most other flowers. The honey that they make of Linden nectar is white in color, and regarded as high in quality. The flowers when gathered and dried can be used to make tea. During the flowering period, the people that manufacture perfumes use the heady scent for their products.

I hope there are a few around Trumbull

[esatula]

Thanks for the answers! I really apperciate it. I guess i'm just a little excited that I might get some honey this year!! WHOO HOOO!!

[dickm]

I bet if you checked the bottom deep there isn't much in it. Do that, and tell me I'm wrong please. Still it looks like you'll get honey this year. The bees need 1 full deep or 80 lbs for themselves and some room and some pollen in the other deep. I'm expecting the last 3 weeks of July to be weak but for Aug to be good.

Dickm