acacia honey plant
White and yellow acacia honey plant as: productivity.
Honey extracted from various plants, including acacia.
It is undemanding to soil and has many positive qualities for beekeepers.
Due plants bees obtain large amounts of nectar.
Description yellow acacia
Yellow acacia increasingly used for casing gardens and apiaries, parks and gardens.
It can be found in the woods, along railways. Acacia honey plant as highly, medosbor of it has an annual sustainability.
It grows in the middle lane, in the south and north, gives many shoots after cutting, thus increases the efficiency of its use.
Acacia honey plant, is one of the main plants, which contributes to a particular location in the main crop.
During flowering forms hanging brush with fluffy yellow flowers. This period lasts about ten days, in late May or early June.
Its performance is about 50 kg of honey per hectare.
Large overgrown plants for bees provide supporting tricks, a slight increase in commodity honey.
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Collection of yellow acacia honey
Yellow acacia honey plant is early. With good preparation bee colonies from the plant can receive early medical product.
Insects collected it from flowering shrubs. he:
- has an intense yellow color;
- sweet, has a pleasant taste;
- contains no bitterness;
- does not crystallize;
- long retains the original texture;
- viscous and liquid.
Most of his collection is carried out in the south of Ukraine. Many beekeepers believe, it is better lime.
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Planting of yellow acacia
With this process will have no problems, Since the plant is able to withstand cold 45 degrees and intense heat.
The composition of the soil, it just is not demanding and it fits any soil except very acidic soil with a pH of 3 to 5.
Accordingly, the time for planting spring considered.
It is important, acacia leaves that were in a wrapped state.
You can plant it in the fall season after November.
In summer (not in bloom) landing is possible only with earthen coma.
Before the process of landing in the pit planted gravel drainage layer. Then she introduced a complete mineral complex with compost.
Root neck deepened to five centimeters. Seeds of spring and summer planting mulch.
After her plant should be watered infrequently, as excess moisture gives the plant a detrimental effect.
To accelerate the growth and development of the yellow acacia spring mineral complex helps food, which is better watered before flowering solution of organic.
be appreciated, yellow acacia that has the ability to support themselves useful substances, Air acquiring nitrogen through symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
With regard to drop-off seeds, they are going to yellowing when beans. One should not expect their full maturity.
After harvesting they are dried on the threshing floor. Before sowing soil to a depth orut 20-25 cm. The process can use conventional drills.
- With proper care, the plant begins to bloom 4 year.
- Each subsequent season will increase the allocation of nectar.
- In the ninth year of the tree can be called valuable honey plant.
In steep ravine need to be sown 5-10 grains. This dense planting involves the loss or freezing of some plants.
The rest of the rise in the fruiting period multiplied by means of self-seeding.
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Locust as honey plant
This plant is one of the most important honey plants in the southern zone, while in some places it can made basic medosbor.
It blooms white fragrant bunches.
Acacia often found in gardens and parks: the plant is planted in the streets for the purpose of planting.
It is drought resistant.
For plants preferred dark brown and black soil, it responds to variations in weather, and therefore the medosbora different from it each year.
The tree can reach a height 12 m.
Productivity – to 800 kg per hectare.
Locust is spring honey plant, but it always blooms grow strong family goes for full use bribes.
Usually willingness celebrated only in certain families, but this may not be enough.
The attractiveness of this honey plant lies in the fact, that the beekeeper can not worry about poisoning bees herbicides, pesticides and other hazardous substances, as acacia is not processed and often grows wild.
Its flowers are allowing to collect a lot of nectar and pollen. In southern flowering begins in mid-May, in the middle lane – in June.
It takes 2-3 week, but good selection of nectar marked the first time 7-12 days.
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Acacia honey is valued through:
- early reception;
- relation to dietary means;
- minimum cloying;
- thin muted flavor;
- stay long period without crystallization;
- Properties not zakysaty;
- possibility of pumping apiarists to sealing.
Acacia is a good honey plant. The resulting product from the plant often goes on sale, it belongs to the higher grades.
In general, undemanding plant, does not require treatment, that does not die in the heat and cold.
She does not like excess water and does not require frequent watering.
Provides good performance, but not all beekeepers have time to prepare a solid bdzholosimyu until it blooms.