On 17-Feb-08, at 8:27 AM, Yoon Sik Kim wrote:

>  Although the abundance of water
> helped bloom many flowers I have not seen bloom before, it did not  
> do a
> diddly squat on goldenrods, another reason to prepare for wintering
> starting as early as July.
>
>

Hi Yoon, Bob and all

My fall crop(goldenrod & asters) is usually good but less than the  
July crop. In 2004 however the fall crop was much higher.  My two  
scale hives averaged increases of more than 12.5 lbs per day from  
Sept 13-23.  Two days( Sept 15 & 20) produced 20+ lb gains in each  
hive while rain on Sept 16 resulted in 5 lb losses.  I extracted 650  
lb from my 5 hives in Sept so that my scale hives were fairly  
representative of the others.  All hives had heavy broodnests and one  
swarmed.  Please comment on what approach you would use should you  
operate in an area where heavy fall flows occur.

Bob Darrell
Caledon Ontario
Canada
44N80W

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