> On Randy's page, an article dated 2013 mentions feeding dinks 1:1 syrup in
> quart jars above the cluster in January to encourage the dinks to make 4-5
> frame minimum for pollination. As one always hears and reads not to feed
> syrup unless air temperatures are 50F minimum, and the Sierra Foothills
> where Randy is in January average 53F, BUT night lows average 32F, what are
> people's experience with liquid feed in January and February?
>

I cannot speak for Randy, but the temps he mentions are the day time temps
for feeding here in Maine which go above 50 in late March or early April.
So the month does not matter, the day time temps do. Some here set the
syrup feeding temps in the 52-55 range. If we had to wait until night time
temps were above 50 we couldn't feed until mid June!

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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