So I don't see this question anywhere else and so I'll put them here. (There's two parts to this, 2 questions basically).
In gardening there's this technique called dead heading where you cut the tops of the flowers when they are wilting or whatever to try to make the plant regrow the flowers. I wanted to ask if you can do this en masse in your flower fields to get extra nectar and if anyone's studied this? (Don't know if you could get it to work with fruit trees but what about stuff like sunflowers, and other stuff?)
(Yeah, there'd be some work, but I would think if someone could get tons of bonus honey they wouldn't mind right?)
(And I guess this pertains to people that do a bit of gardening and beekeeping both mostly...)
Also, I was on Youtube and looking at a beekeeper channel of a certain guy who has a nuc yard, full of tons of bees. And when talking about robbing he was saying once he starts doing sugar water, he can't really stop because of robbing starting again, etc. And later this gentleman said something along the lines of some beeks literally use several tons of sugar per year. Granted he's got a lot of hives, and he is successful in his field. I'm not disrespecting him in any way.)
But I wondered how many pounds of sugar are people using in a hive per year typically? You guys must have this figured out right? (There hasn't been talk about this recently on the forum. I did see a thread people talking about the price of sugar per pound on here back in 2013. But that's a lot of time and change since then for that as a separate question also.) Seems like you'd be thinking both the price of sugar per pound, and also how many pounds a year a typical hive is using. And you might even have separate figures for small nuc hives versus the full sizers.
How do you keep this from bringing down your bank account so much? I like that this was brought up, but I'm also worried about having a black hole in my bank account if I were to be so far into this.
Thanks for your thoughts on this fun research.
In gardening there's this technique called dead heading where you cut the tops of the flowers when they are wilting or whatever to try to make the plant regrow the flowers. I wanted to ask if you can do this en masse in your flower fields to get extra nectar and if anyone's studied this? (Don't know if you could get it to work with fruit trees but what about stuff like sunflowers, and other stuff?)
(Yeah, there'd be some work, but I would think if someone could get tons of bonus honey they wouldn't mind right?)
(And I guess this pertains to people that do a bit of gardening and beekeeping both mostly...)
Also, I was on Youtube and looking at a beekeeper channel of a certain guy who has a nuc yard, full of tons of bees. And when talking about robbing he was saying once he starts doing sugar water, he can't really stop because of robbing starting again, etc. And later this gentleman said something along the lines of some beeks literally use several tons of sugar per year. Granted he's got a lot of hives, and he is successful in his field. I'm not disrespecting him in any way.)
But I wondered how many pounds of sugar are people using in a hive per year typically? You guys must have this figured out right? (There hasn't been talk about this recently on the forum. I did see a thread people talking about the price of sugar per pound on here back in 2013. But that's a lot of time and change since then for that as a separate question also.) Seems like you'd be thinking both the price of sugar per pound, and also how many pounds a year a typical hive is using. And you might even have separate figures for small nuc hives versus the full sizers.
How do you keep this from bringing down your bank account so much? I like that this was brought up, but I'm also worried about having a black hole in my bank account if I were to be so far into this.
Thanks for your thoughts on this fun research.