Any Honey Yet In the SE?

[SageBrush]

My hives are lighter than expected this year. I saw my first half frame of capped honey last Saturday. That was on new plastic foundation. They have the new deep drawn about 60%, its over one deep and one medium brood chamber. I was surprised to see new foundation with capped honey on what I thought was a weaker colony. The 1 1/2 brood chambers are producing better than my strong double deeps so far.

Anyone else have honey in AL/GA?

[Fusion_power]

The main flow started April 18th. I'm putting supers on daily.

Fusion

[SageBrush]

I wish I had that problem. Your due west of me on the other side of the state if your in Hamilton. I'm near Jacksonville.

[Mikethebeeman]

I added med. supers to the two hives I have about a month ago at the first sign of spring flowers. I thought I had more time but they have quickly drawn and filled them to 80% and one hive split so now I have three. I added med. to both yesterday of drawn comb to keep them busy. My big flow seems to be when the wild privet hedge blooms. We have alot of that around me and it makes a good honey. It looks like we are going to have a good bloom this year but it is about two to three weeks away from starting. I have a good stand of Kudzu next to me and when it blooms later on I can make a grape tasting honey. Mike - Mid GA

[Hillbillynursery]

The main flow is about to start. I am going to place a super on each hive set aside for honey. The bees are capping some in the brood chamber. I will pull these frames up when adding the super. Finally honey for me from the bees after 2 years of having to feed them(made to many splits last year).

[Mitch]

Sounds like some of you are doing great so far.It snowed here sunday wow even unusual for Ohio.It was nice for a few weeks but now it is alot cooler it is spose to be in the 50 for a week or so.I pick up 5 #3 packages tomarrow. I just hpoe to get them in the hives soon.Now if i were just a few hundres miles south lol.One of my over wintered hives is doing great tho.it is ready to split when the weather gets a bit better.The dandilions are just now in full bloom here.

[SageBrush]

It has turned cool and wet this week, my bees are staying inside still. Its been in the mid 30's at night, so thats not helping. I'm afraid to add too much space for the colonies to maintain.

Last year it was warm and I added supers early. That helps me a lot since the hives are 2 hours away. I moved them to the ruals since they do so much better out there. I hope this is the last of the cold temps.

[BeeBear]

>> I hope this is the last of the cold temps.

I guess misery loves company because it makes me feel better to see you guys in the sunny south moaning about cold. It's unpleasant up here in MN right now, but it's supposed to be. We had a very warm start to April, followed by Mother Nature demonstrating the meaning of the word "average". I hope that it warms back up soon and the girls can make up for lost time.

[Mitch]

It went from 20 deg above average here to 20deg below average.The bees are not the only ones confused.But then it is Ohio wait a few days and it will change again.We can only hope it is the last cold snap.My poor cherrie tree is very confused.So am i with snow all round a bloomig tree.this it the latest i have ever seen snow here.But we all want a\our bees to get off to a great start and they will i am sure.

[Ribster]

[Ribster]

I just took off around 3 and a half gallons from 2 hives last week and will harvest again in about 3 weeks when I should have 3 mediums and 2 shallows finished that are on 2 hives I made from swarms of the other 2.

Both were in the sun too much and swarmed (I also think I should have checkerboarded), but I think that's pretty good coming out of winter with only two hives (100% survival). I'm in Marietta. About 15 mi. north of Atlanta :mad:

This is my first year extracting and I'm overwhelmed at the size of harvest. This beats the heck out of struggling to force them into hogg halfcombs and getting a pitifull crop. Even so, I think I might try halcomb again next year because I like the comb honey and it's a nice way to sell the extra.

Kudzu honey sounds interesting. There are acres of it a few miles away from me. Can anyone tell me about when it blooms?

[BubbaBob]

I've had supers on all but the new hives for two weeks here in the N GA mountains and they are 2/3 full now...was going to add second supers today to 100 hives but it's raining...will do tomorrow. Should have first 100 supers full/capped by late next week and be extracting bottling next weekend.

BubbaBob