Note: Based on yesterday’s post, I had a request to show a graph of the 2017 honey flows in my home apiary. To make sense of this graph, if you have not read the previous post, please take a minute to do so as it explains how the graph is created.
Honey Flows
This graph below depicts hive weight for my main hive in our home apiary from May 30 – Oct 12. The queen is a hive-raised daughter of an overwintered Mike Palmer queen I removed from the hive in late May to break the brood cycle and put the hive into honey production mode. Removing the queen (I created a nuc with her) not only breaks the brood cycle and reduces mite load, it creates more foragers as not as many nurse bees are required.
My BroodMinder sensors are set to grab data once per hour. The sudden dips are simply showing that a reading was taken while I happened to have supers removed during an inspection. You can see that in my home apiary, based only upon weight gain, the 1st flow was from June 8 – July 12. The fall flow lasted from Aug 20 – Sep 26. On my computer, I can drag a pointer along the black line and see the actual weight scroll along with my cursor. Any time period can be selected for review. I chose these dates simply to show both flows. Hopefully, this helps show how the data is interpreted.
New Hampsha' Bees 
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