🔵Amazing Buckwheat/Fall Honey Flow!!
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Planting Buckwheat for Natural bee forage!
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Great thing about planting buckwheat thick is that it will choke out weeds even thistles. Your dad is a smart man.
He gets smarter every year I have found.
Really cool ! Thank you for taking care of bees.
You are so fortunate to have the field of buckwheat plants because I have learned it's an amazing source of nectar and produced a rich and nutritious brown honey. And it grows sooooo fast.
We called this sort of weather, Indian Summer. Nice to see the Buck Wheat Bloom 🥰.
Amazing nature🌿🍃Buckwheat flowers
Buckwheat honey -YUM!
Luuuuuuuuuve buckweat! I have a red variety from heirloom seeds. I hope to see a pink sea of buckweat one day! Buckweat really is awesome in gardening!
Such a beeautiful field! Thanks for sharing friend!
Thank you for another great video, I know that they help so many. This was my third year, and to a new keeper it's such a comfort being able to have these resources available.
Buckweat honey is awesome. The hives have a smell terrible before it is capped off but the bees know what they're doing. You'll love it.
The heaviest golden rod bloom I ever seen
Nice Video. love to see bees working hard before the winter.It always makes us beekeeper excited!! I feel your energy!!
Thanks Richard. I am hoping to actually pull a couple supers from our fall flow. I haven't done this in years but the fall flow is doing excellent. Busy bees make happy beekeepers! I actually was inspired to plant some buckwheat after watching some of your videos! Sorry you didn't make much of a crop but perhaps the bees were made a bit better for it!
@@kamonreynolds Thank you Kamon, I am glad I didn't put you off trying the buckwheat, honey. Yes, some say "farmyard " when they smell it but to be honest, it does taste quite nice (not my favourite personally) when it's eaten. Buckwheat is an amazing crop in terms of quick growth and in terms of its uniqueness. it is very strong for sure. my 19 Kilos i harvested. lots have grown here over the summer. Like sunflowers, it can be a complete lottery if you get nectar or not because of the weather (temp and rain). I just catch up on your videos over the winter, like you, I am still really busy.
I love buckwheat honey... so dark, so earthy! Yum!
I love to listen to you and I like what you have to say. I sure learned a lot from you.
Thanks for the video.
Thanks J & B I learned alot about planting food plots from my dad and he and I are still learning more all the time!
I loved what you had to say, you don't talk to much Kamon.
I can't get over how many blooms the buckwheat have. Wow! I am so impressed. I have been looking at what kind of flowers, bushes and trees can be planted to help the beekeeper feed his bees by planting things that can really help for all the different times of the season.
Suggestion: Why not put on a show that gives your followers a chance to see what kind of plants can help the honey bees the best in the spring, mid summer, late summer and early fall. The buckwheat you just showed is fantastic.
I saw a small patch of Wrinkleleaf Goldenrod that must have had a thousand honey bees on it. It was unbelievable how alive the plants seemed to be. A lady told me the other day that there are over 21 species of goldenrod that grow here in Kentucky alone.
Trees: Basswood, and Sourwood are mid July to early August blooming trees that can produce up to 1,500 lbs of nectar per acre.
Black Locus, Vitex which are early spring bloomers
Bushes: Russian Sage, Dark Knight, Blue Mist Spirea - late blooming
Crape or Crepe Myrtle - mid to late summer
Flowers: White clover, yellow clover and dutch white clover.
Just to name a few that I have recently learned about.
Maybe you could get your wife to do this and give us a presentation that would far exceed what you could do. Hahaha! Just kidding though it would be nice to finally meet her.
How to use a "plant rooting devise" to increase your plants for free.
Just my thoughts.
The buckwheat is beautiful!
I planted some back in June to help out during July and August. I let it go to seed When I mowed plot and reworked for my fall food plots it all came back. As good as I planted it. So I’m getting two crops out of one.
Buckwheat is has nectar flow in morning only:)
I love buckwheat honey for its benefits. Especially useful for boosting your immunity during a pandemic.
Your bees are so lucky to have that beautiful field 🙏🏻🌸🐝
I have food plots of clover, for deer and bees. I planted buckwheat this month...maybe a bit early but I fear the deer will find it and eat it all. I typically plant turnips yearly also for deer. I leave it until spring and the turnips grow tall again with tons of yellow flowers that the bees love. that was a beautiful field Kamon! I see bees on large areas of asters I plant in fall too. love the sound of the bees working plants! they truly are amazing creatures.
Deer took out my buckwheat at my dads house right about the time bees were done with it . i replanted it then frost took it out .. Chicory is great fall pollen source my bees hit that in the morning then goldenrod in the afternoon .. Chicory bloom just closes it up in the afternoon like thats enough bees .. Amazing world to watch most people have no idea .. People plant chicory for deer as well .. It grows just wild everywhere around here mostly road sides..its a long lasting pollen source must go a month .
Great field for wedding pictures!!
I love buckwheat honey.
I love buckwheat honey!! It's hard to find up here in Pa. Farmers used to plant fields of it,but they don't anymore. I wish i had the acres to plant it myself
Awesome buckwheat. Think I'll plant some next August.
Been similar here season/flow in NC too. My buckwheat plots are much smaller but planted in 2/3 week sucessions and they love it as well as the deer
Kamon....flower biology is more amazing than you might think. Native flowers often stage their nectar production so that they produce it during a time of day that the other flowers are not producing. If you were to sample the flowers in your area for their peak nectar production, both the time of year and time of day would see hardly any overlap with other flowers in the area. Instead of competing for the same pollinators, native flowers work in harmony with each other.
It is fun to see how different our areas are. This year I had a great spring flow that lasted into july. And then got dry weather and now I have almost nothing.
It really is interesting for sure. Weather and climate is so unpredictable
awesome! yep we grow those rocks too!
Buckwheat nectar before noon
That's lush👍🐝🍯
Love your videos here in Iowa!
What part? I'm in Iowa as too. SW Iowa.
Thanks James!
@C B oh wow that is pretty darn close isn't it. LOL
Nice to see!
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing!!
We thought we'd plant Buckwheat in our field for our bees too. Since we never planted it before we thought to try 25 lbs first. It was coming up nice and then the deer ate the tops off every single sprout coming up. Ugh!! I think next year we'll have to plant 200 lbs and do all of our fields. Surely the deer won't be able to eat all that? Enjoy all your videos Kamon. I'm always learning something new!
If there's one thing I have learned in 50 years of marriage its HAPPY WIFE-HAPPY LIFE😁 BEE SAFE😷
Wonderful
I planted Buckwheat this year. My bees invaded it early each morning. By noon, nada😳. All gone now because of 3 nights of frost
unless you harvested those hulls after the blooms, the buckwheat will remain there heavy forever
I hope so!
Thanks !!
Kamon I think you said your father sowed 25lbs of buckwheat. How big an area? acres(s)? Also can you share what type of buckwheat and where he got it? Thanks
hello. I love your buckwheat field I live in Nashville I have 4 hives and would like to ask you for advice. I plan to plant buckwheat this weekend. I have a field of half an acre and nothing has ever grown on it except grass. the question is will the buckwheat be able to bloom by October?
Fall flow in Orlando Florida whole lots of Brazilian pepper trees and Golden rain trees and Flow check out this cool video
Love your videos. I'm in southwest tn myself. This will be my first year keeping bees. I'm planning on planting about 6 acres of buckwheat over the course of the summer and into the fall. Im assuming he planted this stand in August sometime? Anyway keep up the good work! Would love to come over and get my nucs from you 👍
Do you like Buckwheat honey? It has a very distinctive flavor, to say the least.
So cool
Kamon, fall flow here in central KY seems to be lacking. My bees are taking sugar water by the gallon.
Does the buckwheat reseed for you?
8-noon is what they say buckwheat releases it’s me for. I have a small field near my hives this year. Do you find a good market for the buckwheat honey?
Looking to purchase buckwheat honey - from a beekeeper in 5 gallon pails. Do you (or another beekeeper) sell it wholesale?
We don't produce any unfortunately. It is just for our bees during the dearth.
Was wondering if sesame seed and field peas are good sorces for necter?? They begin growing those 2 crops near me lately!
Hi to all! 🥰
Should I feed pollen pattie before winter, I just bought a property and I am new to beekeeping and my bees have very small amount of brood and the last owner got allergic to bees joust when he harvested the honey and didn't kill the mites. And when he harvested the honey he lest the bees for 1 month . I have 14 hives and I feed them 385pounds of sugar mix and water.
I can hear the bees with you talking. Will you harvest any buckwheat honey? Do they only work the buckwheat early in the day and is buckwheat normally a fall crop? Thanks Kamon!
Hey Don they only work it early in the morning till noonish. I am going to tray to harvest perhaps a barrel of fall honey IF I can. The colonies need to fill up their second deep and then if they make a medium super I will take it. Likely I could take a handful of drums if I stripped my bees of fall honey. I would like to take a drum this year without dipping into what they need. Buckwheat does well here from Planting in early May to Now. In Bama I am sure you could get a whole month of growing time or more.
Kamon, my wife’s dad planted some 2 years ago near Corbin, KY and he was disappointed because his bees wouldn’t work it, the hives were about 50 yards away but he planted in early spring and I told him then they were working something they liked better. I believe bees are like you and I, we eat what we like not everything that’s available! If green beans and Brussel sprouts are cooked and on the table I will eat the green beans or something else because I’m not eating NO Brussel sprouts never unless I’m starving and can’t get something else and the bees will take the pollen and nectar they like the best of what’s available.
@@donbearden1953 Haha that is pretty much the same way I see it. Brussel sprouts are low on the totem pole. Yes, they are going to be after blackberry nectar, clover, and other producers before buckwheat in spring. I would plant mine to hit sometime in Mid-June
Hello kamon on this Buckweat is there a certain kind that your father planted or is there just one kind . Also did you say 25lb did all this field or is this 25lb per ac . ??? It would be good to plant sunflower down the middle of that field. Thanks for all your great information
Ha Kamon hope u are well great video where i ham we have nothing here what part of Tenn are u in, I was looking for a video u shared and I cant find, where you talked about the dribble method for mites what is your recipe for this method thanks and have a great day
Kamon - Did you see my post the other day about the TN Dept of Agriculture grants for pro beekeepers?
I did thank you!
Oh, man Kamon.
We are in the low 40's in the mornings the last few days, but it looks like it is warming up a bit.
Gosh, my bees stocked up on honey and my 10 frames hives have 10 frames deeps capped with honey.
And they still bring a lot of pollen in.
Say hi to your wife and kids.
Are going to home school your kids again this year?
Only Healthy bees make fall honey like that!
@@kamonreynolds
Thank you for your comment.
Oh yeah we were planning to homeschool anyways....but with all the lies flying around these days there is no way I am trusting my kids education to the government.
@@kamonreynolds Good for you and better for the kids. We home schooled our youngest boy and all the jobs he had so far was either being trained to be a manager or being a manager and right now he is running a store and he is only 25 years old.
Deaf as I'm, I can hear them.
Unfortunately where I am this fall has been very poor for my bees. It has been very dry.
been watching your bee vids notice you say you have another channel was wondering what its called
Hey Mathew the new channel is Kamon Reynolds - How to farm here is a link. Thank for asking czcams.com/video/tP_lO-HDcvI/video.html
Hi Kamon! Just wondering... how much nectar can a flowering tree produce compared to maybe an acre of flowering plants?
I had the best roadside goldenrod bloom in years and guess what the road department decided to spray it . They haven't sprayed a blade of grass all year long and now it's all gone. 😡
How do you keep the deep out of your buckwheat? Mine was devoured
They have been in there a little bit but not a lot. I imagine it is because it is so lush and dad has 5-6 other food plots that they have been eating on prior to this
What if u bale that buckwheat the shake it for the pollen?
I have no idea. We always used it for the bees, deer, and as a green manure.
@@kamonreynolds I believe this method saves natural resources from any type plant: goldenrod, wild sunflowers\sunflowers, etc. In any season collect pollens from plants when pollinators go off or right before. When one bales the plants, I think baling keeps them somewhat fresh for prolonged periods of time. In olden days in old countries, farmers & ranchers. bound up cuttings from certain trees to keep them green (the branches). It preserved them so when winter came on they fed it to their cattle to tie them over.
Kamon I need to replace an old queen here in Minnesota. Could you please suggest a couple of reputable Carniolan breeders? Thank you!
Hi Kamon - do you have a patty recipe using honey, sugar and Ultra Bee ? What is the ratio of each that you use so for 5lbs
Hi, what is the flower that the bee is on in your circle logo?
Hi Heather! That flower is White Dutch clover.
Morning, how do you you all plant the buckwheat seed. We usually broadcast it bit yours is much h thicker than ours? Little help please.
We broadcast ours as well. Ours did well I think for 2 reasons. First we put 25 pounds in this area which is pretty thick. Also we had very timely rains. 4 inches in 40 days. Dad may have run a rake over it. I will ask him.
Does buckwheat make nasty dark honey.
How much for that high tunnel house?
I am hoping to use it for the new channel in the near future
Kamon Reynolds - Tennessee's Bees I’m starting a market farm back on our farm in the spring including bees-enjoy your channel including the cheesy jokes... :-)
Looks great i don't like the buckwheat honey 🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
Did I skip"Hi this kamon Reynold"
I thought something felt weird!
Have you heard of the Mighty Mite heat treatment? pdnbeekeepers.org/mightymite/ Apparently, the varroa might dies at 106 degrees F, but bees can tolerate much higher temperatures. So, the theory is to heat the brood chamber to 106 and hold it there for about 2 hours. This kills the mights on the bees AND in any capped brood - but it does not injure the brood or the queen. There are several products that do this, one uses solar power, but the hives are really expensive. This is a plate that slides in under the brood box. I've been watching your videos and your fight against the varroa mite, and when this popped up, it caught my interest.
3 treatments per year are recommended.
I have read that there is some worry that the heat will harm the queen, but apparently the testing that was done on queens with regard to temperature had to do with shipping them, not within the hive. According to what I read, the queens aren't bothered by the heat treatment, and this method of mite control is gaining a wide audience.
I also saw something about a Bee Gym - a small device that goes into the hive that the bees use to groom themselves. The theory is that they will groom the mites off of their abdomen. I saw a video, and the bees seem to enjoy the gym....
Maybe a combination of the two....
Anyway, I thought you might be interested. I'd be interested in your thoughts. Could be total bunk, but.....