Workhorse's 2013 bacca patch

[workhorse_01]

Here we go again...






10-Day Forecast for Waycross, GA (31501)

High / Low (°F) Precip. % Today Jul 09 PM T-Storms 93°/74° 40 % Wed Jul 10 Isolated T-Storms 94°/74° 30 % Thu Jul 11 Scattered T-Storms 92°/74° 30 % Fri Jul 12 Scattered T-Storms 87°/74° 60 % Sat Jul 13 Scattered T-Storms 87°/74° 60 % Sun Jul 14 Scattered T-Storms 91°/75° 40 % Mon Jul 15 Scattered T-Storms 89°/74° 30 % Tue Jul 16 Scattered T-Storms 90°/74° 30 % Wed Jul 17 Partly Cloudy 91°/75° 20 % Thu Jul 18 PM T-Storms 92°/76° 60 % Last Updated Jul 9 08:04 a.m. ET

 

[johnlee1933]

Yep, My forecast looks about the same but I haven't been hit as hard as you.

 

[workhorse_01]

I cant get my shade cloth up until I get rid of the standing water, and the plants are growing.

 

[workhorse_01]

Time to make the doughnuts. Talk to y'all tonight.

 

[DGBAMA]

I cant get my shade cloth up until I get rid of the standing water, and the plants are growing.

This is a good thing.

 

[workhorse_01]

Not without the shade on those varieties.

This is a good thing.

 

[AmaxB]

Rain Rain we got it to I worry it is going to be to much

 

[workhorse_01]

I sprayed my plants with BT. and Cyonara today and as I went I checked and thank GOD there are still no aphids.

 

[AmaxB]

I sprayed my plants with BT. and Cyonara today and as I went I checked and thank GOD there are still no aphids.

Aphids don't eat much less you grow packs of em watch for those Horn Worms

 

[workhorse_01]

I don't think I had a horn worm at all last year, just bud worms and aphids. This year I spray every 6 days, so maybe i'll keep em from ever getting started.

Aphids don't eat much less you grow packs of em watch for those Horn Worms

 

[Boboro]

Afids dont eat much but they make some nasty lookin leaf.

 

[johnlee1933]

Afids dont eat much but they make some nasty lookin leaf.

You got that right! I discarded quite a lot of prime wrapper because it was so ugly.

 

[Boboro]

Some where lost in the pages is a discussin on if the honey dew made the leaf sweeter.

 

[chillardbee]

That would be intresting. Aphids suck on the sap of plants and ooze honeydew as a result. the sugars of the plant under go an enzymnic effect not much different from bees turning nectar into honey. So basically, honey dew from aphids on a baccy plant covers the plant with it's own sweetness. This year I seen a cedar hedge that the bees were in love with, the cedars were all covered with honeydew of the likes that i've never seen before.

 

[johnlee1933]

That would be intresting. Aphids suck on the sap of plants and ooze honeydew as a result. the sugars of the plant under go an enzymnic effect not much different from bees turning nectar into honey. So basically, honey dew from aphids on a baccy plant covers the plant with it's own sweetness. This year I seen a cedar hedge that the bees were in love with, the cedars were all covered with honeydew of the likes that i've never seen before.

Have you tasted any of that honey? Does it have a distinctive cedar flavor/aroma?

 

[chillardbee]

It is very dark and strong tasting honey and fetches a premium price. I personally don't like the taste of it and I should mention that honeydew honey is not the same flavour as honeydew before the bees mixed their enzymns with it (I licked the cedar branch to taste the raw honeydew, that was pleasant). Honeydew honey is really rich in minerals and because of that it is actually not good for bees to overwinter on, They will get the screaming poops then die (experience talking there).

 

[johnlee1933]

It is very dark and strong tasting honey and fetches a premium price. I personally don't like the taste of it and I should mention that honeydew honey is not the same flavour as honeydew before the bees mixed their enzymns with it (I licked the cedar branch to taste the raw honeydew, that was pleasant). Honeydew honey is really rich in minerals and because of that it is actually not good for bees to overwinter on, They will get the screaming poops then die (experience talking there).

So you sell the stuff at a premium and protect the bees at the same time? Will bees winter over on any honey at all?

 

[chillardbee]

So you sell the stuff at a premium and protect the bees at the same time? Will bees winter over on any honey at all?

Oh yeah, fireweed is the best but any honey (other than honeydew honey, heather honey, buckwheat honey) will do. Flora honey is better then cane sugar converted into honey for wintering but feeding syrup is better then the bad honey afore mentioned. We only feed if the bees are light or if we have to take away the honeydew honey (which is usually at the end of the season)

 

[workhorse_01]

Here it's gallberry honey. Where I lived before the bees made honey year around, because there is always something blooming in SW. Fla. But the absolute best is when the orange groves are in full bloom and the honey run is on. I split my hive in two, after the purchase of a new queen, and theft of 3 brood racks from the original. By the end of the orange blossom honey run they were both strong with 4 supers on top. After that it was hard to keep up with them, so I ended up giving them to a science station called Plantation Botanicals in Felda Fla. Now im told they are put to use in the medicinal cure world. Those people had a bug and spider room that would make your skin crawl.

 

[workhorse_01]

Talking about Plantation Botanicals made me look them up and I found an interesting file on NEEM OIL, since we've had some discussion on it I thought I'd post a link to it. https://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.echoc...E66CDFDB-0A0D-4DDE-8AB1-74D9D8C3EDD4/Neem.pdf