Goldenrod Flow.....

[AstroZomBEE]

Has anyone had a good goldenrod flow? or whatever your fall flow may be?

I had 200 colonies in western pa, expecting a decent crop until the rain came.

Everything is in Florida now, and i hear the pepperbush flow is astounding.

Aaron

[ekrouse]

My final results are not in but I think the bees produced below average this year.

[Michael Bush]

The goldenrod is blooming. There is no flow. I'm not sure why.

[Todd Zeiner]

My hives are stinkin here in Central Indiana. The weather here has been wet and cool. Not much forage time. My hives with NWC stock from Tarheit are working harder in the cold than all the rest.

[Rod Weakley]

My hives are stinking also. It's so funny to me that I can go up to a Golden Rod flower and smell the blossoms and love the smell, but after the bees bring it back it has a sorta sour smell. Strange.

[Ross]

We are on a strong golden rod, aster, sweet clematis flow right now for the past couple of weeks. We had some fall rains just in time to save the fall. I'm hoping for another month or so. Our average first frost is 07 Nov with killing freeze about the 17th of Nov.

[John Gesner]

Goldenrod's still blooming heavily here. Some hives are bringing it in, other's don't seem to be. Could be the rain, I guess.

[Dennis Arterburn]

My bees are bring in lots and lots of deep golden pollen, I a sure this is from goldenrod. But, about 1/5 of the bees are bring in a light yellow pollen I am not sure what the source of this is. I stopped by a patch of goldenrod on the way home from work to watch the bees work it, and noticed a plant with clumps of light pruplish flowers on it that the bees were also working. This plant had a stiff square stalk...I need to find out what it is.
Dennis

[Tia]

Our goldenrod is exceptional this year. I was just outside by a stand of the stuff watching bumbles, wasps and my girls all going nutz.

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[wayacoyote]

I'm smelling something that doesn't smell like goldenrod. It smells like Tea Tree Oil smell. Very strong, but not the musty smell I'm used to with goldenrod.

Waya

[tecumseh]

in addition to ross's list you might add privet (which I suspect is at about it's end in producing nectar).

[Hobie]

Dennis... plants with a square stalk are in the mint family. There are many, many varieties of mint, but the bees around here seem to like them all.

[uncletom]

I reley on the goldenrod flow, Its my whole crop and this year has been terrable. To cold too wet. Too little honey produced. I can give them one more week, but the long range forcast looks bad.

Beekeeping is a lot like raising kids...Sometimes no mater what you do....

you just got to love 'em

tom

[mcgator]

WOW! As I was driving out on the golf cart to feed the bees, I could smell the GR from about 70 yards away. Could still catch wiffs back at the house that was over 100 yards away. Guess the wind was just right.

[carbide]

My girls are working hard on the GR right now. I don't know how much they're putting away as I haven't opened the hives yet to look.The GR, along with the aster, has been in full bloom now for about the last week. Prior to this, the supers on my hives were pretty much empty (along with some of the hive bodies). I'm going to wait another week or so before I determine which hives may need to be fed before winter.