Any Pro Bee Keeper here?

[kulbee3499]

Hi!
Beekeeping is my hobby and also deals with beekeeping tools. Just curious to collaborate with other bee keepers here.

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

FYI, Bees do not have Cannabinoid receptors, anyone that tells you bees are after Cannabinoids has no idea what they are talking about, I have seen them collecting Cannabis pollen on my male plants, but without Cannabinoid receptors it is not for Cannabinoids.

-SamS

 

[shithawk420]

I took a college course on beekeeping and Sam is right.its been awhile though

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

Try the Flow Hive from Australia.
https://www.honeyflow.com.au/collections/flow-hives

 

[troutman]

Bees like the pollen though. These are bumblebees on some guerilla plants I grew in 2017.
Compared to garden flowers which release very little pollen. Cannabis releases a lot and
every day the bees were feasting on it.

Good Luck with your beekeeping.

 

[bigtacofarmer]

I spent a couple years working with a beekeeper. I am familiar with most of the process and have helped him make queens and nucs. But I am by no means an expert. I would say my skills are bordering on almost competent.

There was not enough money in it for the time I was spending on it and had to concentrate my efforts back towards more profitable ventures. I would very much like to take it up again if I ever have the right place and enough time. And I should probably go volunteer some weekends now and then. Beekeeper still brings me 5 gallon buckets of honey a couple times of year.

 

[shithawk420]

Between the sworming and the time and money spent I got fucked.i simply can't raise bees by me.i think it's the farmers pest and insecticides

 

[troutman]

Between the sworming and the time and money spent I got fucked.i simply can't raise bees by me.i think it's the farmers pest and insecticides

Bees swarm normally cause they are overcrowded. You have to split the hive before they run out of room.

 

[shithawk420]

Bees swarm normally cause they are overcrowded. You have to split the hive before they run out of room.

True but seems like a big coincidence at spring when the farmers spray my bees swarm.i really don't know but I swear I took care of those bees.it was only 1 apiary

 

[troutman]

^^^ Chemical sprays would kill the bees.

Swarming is mainly a spring phenomenon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarming_(honey_bee)

 

[Budz Lightyear]

Ive always wanted to keep bees. Ive also always wondered what properties (if any) the honey would have and how it would taste if the bees were kept in a field of cannabis.

 

[troutman]

^^^ I've wondered the same.

Every source of pollen affects honey quality. Until a beekeeper does it we'll never know exactly how it will taste.

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

There is no nectar in cannabis so honey production would be zero.

 

[chilliwilli]

Yes there is little pollen in honey but the bees collect pollen on their own to feed the larvae. Iirc its the main proteine source for them.