Yep, we are all inbred and have 6 toes....Originally Posted by Jon
Blackthorn is sloes and May is Hawthorne.
Yep, we are all inbred and have 6 toes....
Blackthorn is sloes and May is Hawthorne.
Last edited by Adam; 12-05-2015 at 05:07 PM. Reason: I just thought I would.
You are all spending too much time looking at the Thorne catalogue.
Hawthorn is spelt like this hawthorn, hawthorn, hawthorn!
I think you'll find "draenen wen" is the correct spelling.....
Sure there is not an 'e' on the end of that?
I like the fact we're slowly coming out of the woodwork admitting to having started grafting, I'll be on my fourth graft this week, the last one I had a reasonable take but the first two were definitely nothing to brag about, when I start getting really good success I'll tell you all about it
I grafted on may 1st and got 9 started. Those ones have started emerging.
I grafted on Saturday and have a good number started from that, 16+
I'll do another frame tomorrow and see how that goes.
Anything in the first half of May is a bonus.
You using Q+ or Q- starters?
Q- ,
I managed to kill the queen in one of my cell raisers boosting it with bees and brood from elsewhere to get them up to strength for an early batch, I've used those ones to start all but the first graft (which I started in a q- cell starting box) and they've also finished a few, nearly all the brood has hatched now so it's time to unite them. I have two cell raising colonies at the moment, one a conventional cloak board set up and the other the queenless mess, it's bursting with bees so has done a good job but ideally I want to find something suitable to unite under it so it can continue to be usefully for a few rounds yet, hopefully I'll see what I'm looking for on my travels tomorrow.
Absolutely, just to get the ball rolling.
I have one q- starter, just a 6 frame Paynes nuc bunged to the gills with nurse bees and one ben harden setup with frames of brood above the queen excluder in a queenright colony.
I ordered 5 of those nuc brood extensions from Paynes at the weekend so will use those in q- colonies with 6 frames over 6.
Incubator switched on now as well.
Brothermoo used it to hatch 6 chicken eggs in February but it is now back to its rightful purpose hatching queens.
Last edited by Jon; 12-05-2015 at 10:13 PM.
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