On 9 Nov 99, at 8:40, Bill Truesdell wrote:

> this, you could be held liable because you created the nuisance.
> So now I store wet and they are ready to put on in the spring. No
> mold or any problems. Store in an unheated barn.

I have one major problem with wet storage. The residual honey will
granulate in the comb and if you're not very lucky the new crop next
year will begin granulating almost straight away. It's the perfect
seed to start granulation going. See my post on creaming honey.
        No problem if you extract frequently as we do, but left till the end
of the season as we did in '98, due to pressure, and we had lots of
solid stuff to deal with. This is, I believe, the reason so many
newbies have blow outs
        I know about canola etc and the normal reasons for granulation in
the comb, these did not apply that year.
        We always, at least now, put back supers for drying out. Provided
one waits till the flows are over, puts on an empty super to provide
distance above the inner cover, and then has a little patience to
wait for a couple of warm days, the bees will dry them right out. At
one time we used to extract any green honey and feed it back. Now we
put it on a hive that's had no supers on, they'll clean it out real
quick.



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