You can see that honey coming down already. If you want to harvest just a little bit, you can just go ahead and insert the key a little way, and you will get a small amount of honey from the end of the frame, just a jar or so. And what that does is move the insides of our Flow Frame parts from this shape to this shape, allowing honey to drain down into the trough at the bottom and out. Then it's a case of just getting your key, putting it in, just go in a little way at first and then turn it to 90 degrees. So that's how easy it is to get yourself set up. So we've got our jar underneath, we are ready to roll. It's important that the logo is up, the tongue is cleaning out that little point there. Next, I'm going to insert that tube with the little tongue right into the bottom here. It's a handy little tool to get that out. You can use your fingers too, but just in case it's a bit tight. We're going to use this little tag here to lever this out. I'm going to choose this frame here because it looks nice and full. We're going to take out some of these little caps. That works quite nicely, you can put your jar on there like that. The other side as well, we're just putting the shelf bracket on the actual cover that came from the front of the hive, goes right on there.Īnd that's a common question we get, "where's my shelf?" Well, we've double used the window cover for a shelf. Once you've got it set, it should stay good for next time. If it's a bit tight and you can't turn it around into position, then you'll need to loosen it off. Keyhole goes over the screw, depending on what height you want to set, and then you twist it into position. So there are these little brackets, the best way to put them on is facing up like that. So without further ado, I'll show you how to set up your jar shelf. We did harvest one of the frames last week, which they're busy filling back up again. I can see glistening white capping beneath their feet. Now, because I'm seeing a bit of honey that's being eaten away, I'm going to look in the side windows as well, just to check that there's plenty of honey in the hive. So that's the wax cap that the bees put right over the top of the cell when it's ready. And if I even look in, I can see that the capping is right on the frames. Now, if we were to choose a frame, we'd choose a nice full one, like this one where you can see that most of the cells are full. So they're experiencing a bit less honey coming in now, and they're starting to retract it away from the ends. There's a little bit of a lull in the nectar flow. Now you can see here this checkered pattern where it's full, then empty, full and then empty. So if you see here, we've got a whole bunch of frames and this cross-sectional view of the bees filling the cells with honey. So let's just take a look at the hive first and get a little bit of a feel for what's going on inside. Isn't it a magical thing to be able to watch your bees produce the honey from your surrounding area and bring it back into your hive? One of the first things we're going to do is have a look, not only in the side windows for the capped honey, but also in the end windows. So we're going to run over that this morning and look at these bees go they're here on this beautiful day, flying in and out of their hive and doing their amazing thing, producing their honey. People have got their Flow Hive and they just want to know how to do it and refresh themselves. Today, we're going to discuss how to harvest honey from your Flow Hive.
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