Don't Buy Bees! Baby Them! Nuc Follow Along Ep. 10 July 16-24

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00:00 Introduction
05:38 Into the Brood Nest
07:35 Queen 1
08:57 Pollen Patty Bag
11:51 Split Inspection
15:16 Queen 2

[TheDnurk]

Buy a jerky cannon for applying the pollen substitute. Large caulk gun like device that woukd be perfect for laying down nice strips of that pollen

[kylebartholomew]

Squeezing that pollen goop makes me think a cookie press would work better. Those work more like calk guns and might be quicker and easier to work with. Just a thought.

Thanks for the great video series!

[taylormckee]

FYI To make the smoker not leak you can place heat resistant aluminum tape on the leak, or solder a piece of tin on the leak.

[trulylynn]

You are the best most helpful beekeeper on the internet Kaymon! Thank you my dear and thank you to your sweet beautiful wife Laurel

[titussmith]

Thanks to you Kaman and Laurel, I really appreciate and enjoy your content and your knowledge! Keep buzzin!

[cjs]

Amazon sells empty caulk tubes that are easy to fill with pollen sub. Use a caulking gun to apply to the tops of the frames. Electric caulk guns work the best but any caulk gun works.

[tonyfox]

I try to give my nucs drawn comb and that helps a lot.

[CarrieAdams-dvni]

Thanks for the great series. I’ve learned soo much. I’m thinking on the “pollen paste” application challenge.

[amydupree]

Absolutely love these videos. Such great content and information! Thank you!

[bryanroberts]

Get a beef jerky caulk gun! I bet it would be great!

[sinisterhipp]

Use a “mortar repointing gun” it’s like a silicone or chalking gun.

[claudesully]

I was thinking of an old grease gun for a 5 gallon bucket... It had a hand pump and a hose with the grease fitting... take off the fitting and it just might do the trick.🥸

[apveening]

You forgot to mention another advantage of (timely) splitting: it prevents swarming.

[tomreppert]

Jerky gun would work. Or you should be able to find empty/new caulk tubes that you could fill and reuse.

[irishcoffee]

Have swarms all the time.
But partly because of a lack of time, to work them at least each week.

Had last week a very big swarm, luckily they are in my African hive... thriving.

[billymiller]

I love the grout bag delivery system.. Maybe a larger caulk gun devise can be created

[SFBeeRanch]

Pollen patty slurry application ideas....Refillable container that fits in a large calk gun or PVC pipe that hooks onto an air compressor to fill farm tires with leak stop????

[WildwoodsBeekeeping]

Hey Kamon!! Wow, that colony looks really good!! They are growing and expanding quite nicely! Before we know it will be time to start prepping up for winter, a lot of people already are. Looking good Kamon :) keep the video coming 🤙😎😁🐝

[thomasplummer]

Hey kamon, I like the idea of a large calking gun, but better still, I think to make it easier is get someone else to do it.😊

[chasebrunner]

The bees can eat that in 2 days so do you need to add more after the 2 days