Beekeeping | When And How To Add Your Honey Super

Beekeeping is about harvesting honey but when and how do you add your supers? In this video I'll share with you when and how to add your honey supers. Also, do different types of honey frames matter? Is it better to add a super above a super or below an existing super? Is a queen excluder really a honey excluder like many beekeeping clubs say? Also, join me for a great coffee time as I reminisce about growing up in the 60s and 70s.

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“Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale…”
David, I’m 68, grew up in small town Illinois, and totally identified with your Coffee Time. We had a guy who worked in a hardware/lumber store who was the TV repairman. You’d call him (four numbers), tell him what the TV was or wasn’t doing, and he’d bring ONE tube!
I’m a first year beekeeper and find your videos essential. Thank you!!

[bonnietomp]

As a new beekeeper I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Your knowledge and experiences are informative and extremely helpful. I appreciate each and every video.

[dareallyst]

Loved your coffee time! I think you might have been a little bit off on the price of gas back then. I was born in 78, got my first car at 15 in 93 and gas was less than a dollar a gallon. I remember being stationed in Virginia, traveling back home to Arkansas on leave and finding gas for 60 or 70 cents and feeling like you just struck gold 😂
When gas started encroaching on 2 bucks a gallon, I remember how pissed everyone was 😡

[Ambees_Honey]

Thank you David for being a part of my mornings! I love drinking my coffee and learning about beekeeping before going to work!

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It was great growing up in the 60's & 70's, my dad was a TV repairman, I learned so much from him, I even helped him by working on radios.

[davidthompson]

Thank you so much David for your bee knowledge. I am a first year beekeeper at a young age of 68 who has had open heart surgery back in Oct. last year and was blessed to have made it. I have 2 hives, one was a nuc and the other a 3lb package. I have watched all your videos 2 or 3 times and they have really helped. Again thanks for your videos and by the way I have pumped gas and washed a lot of windows back in the 70's when gas was only 24.9 cents a gallon. Thanks David and your one of the reason i have gotten into beekeeping.

[chrismarshall]

Your bees are so calm. Mine act like they want to kill me 😂. They are well on the aggressive side.

[DKiley]

Fun! Such a sweet stroll down Memory Lane! How lucky we were! I enjoy your wisdom. Thanks David. 🙏

[galina_]

You are awesome too David 😎
Thank you for your bee lessons 🐝🐝🐝

[andrewturka]

I’m a 1970 baby, but close enough to have all the same memories. I miss those days 😢

[martenapperloo]

Love your reminiscing, that's exactly the way we were and that's the way it was, thanks for the coffee time, always enjoy it

[kennethlord]

David. .... I love your videos! You are a wealth of information! You have made my first year of bee keeping a real joy!

[amyvickers]

Great info! Really learning good stuff 👏

[karenallen]

You are telling the truth that's the way it was you played outside. Yes, all the toys at Christmas it was the greatest. WOW, everything you're saying I lived it. Great memories. No cell phones you played with friends all day sun up to sun down or when the street lights came on dusk dark be home. Great memories.

[lisaj]

😂 The queen extruder bit made me laugh out loud. Great video, appreciate the education.

[jaylarson]

Thanks David for your videos. It was also neat to hear your evening reminders of our earlier childhoods in the 60s. That 8 year old boy who played outside needs a hobby...Like Beekeeping. HaHa. I also grew up with a B&W Television with 3 stations. I learned to be adventurous and many times made my own toys and fun. I think that is why I am so self-sufficient and have a lot of imagination and initiative. I am on my second year of Beekeeping and have learned a lot from you and others. It is a process. To all you future aspiring Beekeepers: Just Keep Learning. Learn from other's and your own mistakes and discoveries.
Keeping bees is more than a hobby. Imagine what our world would be like if we no longer had bees and other pollinators. Catastrophic! Anyway, keep up the good work y'all.

[beebob]

I think you hit it when you said to put a super with a queen excluder when the second deep has five frames drawn out. Things happen fast when that second deep is half way drawn.
I was taught beekeeping by a pollinator and a college professor whose big thing was beekeeping. The thought at the time was to only super up from a deep to the second deep when only two frames were left to draw out. When it was time to put the honey super on was the same thing. There was a process of moving frames from the outside to the second and ninth frame position, blah blah blah. But when the second box was drawn eight frames was when the honey super would be put on. No queen excluder because the bees wouldn't go through it.
With your five frame idea I'm seeing how it might work with an excluder. I have a lot of full hives and it's only the middle of March and have already supered up for the maple nectar. But, I'm going to be doing splits to slow them down a bit.
It'll be a good time to experiment with your second deep idea using queen excluders. I think I'll give it a go.

[sharonross]

Great video and Great coffee time. Your words during coffee time was wonderful such great advice. We all have had good and bad memories but we need to enjoy every day every moment. Thank you. God Bless.

[berettathetherapydog]

Thanks for all the info. Been “kind of” watching you until recently. Have more time now and watching more. My skills are increasing fast bc of you! Thanks!!!

[BekimDema-we]

Very personal is same like watching CNN
Thank you very much David I learn a lot from you