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Cali Almond Pollination.
« on: February 20, 2017, 07:48:08 pm »
Saw these on facebook. :o

Either of these guys you Chip?




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Re: Cali Almond Pollination.
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2017, 08:03:57 pm »
Looks like a hard way to make a living!

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Re: Cali Almond Pollination.
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2017, 08:36:06 pm »
A close friend use to say D... the bad luck.  :yes:

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Re: Cali Almond Pollination.
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2017, 01:41:59 pm »
Nope but it is a mess out there.  My wife and I tended our bees in January right after the first full week of storms and the rain kept us away from the bees for a week (we visited several of our old friends [we lived in CA for 15 years] and many wineries!) but we did get in and get our work done.  We vaporized all the hives with OA, gave each hive 2 lbs of sub and a feeder full of syrup.  The fellow on the CA end takes care of getting the bees from the holding yard into the almonds so we don't even have to take a forklift.  I took a video with my phone of water coming over an emergency spillway from a small reservoir that was mostly dry a week before our visit.  Wish I could figure out how to load it here but I'm much better with a hive tool than a computer :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: Cali Almond Pollination.
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2017, 04:25:27 pm »




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Re: Cali Almond Pollination.
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2017, 09:41:22 pm »
My gosh Perry. you are not having that kind of thaw already???

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Re: Cali Almond Pollination.
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2017, 09:47:41 pm »
No, no, no.  :D
Those are pictures of the almonds in California.
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Re: Cali Almond Pollination.
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2017, 09:50:11 pm »
OK  that makes more sense.