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<blockquote data-quote="tommy dave" data-source="post: 9875" data-attributes="member: 25"><p>I've been wondering for a while about how to figure out the main components of my various multi-floral honeys.</p><p>some are simple:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">wellington hives, near masses of pohutukawa, crystallises into very fine crystals very quickly - pohutukawa</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">water white late season after a big clover flowering, gave a frame to a proper beekeeper to taste test with no clues to origin, he gave it a hive tool scrape and taste - immediately stated "clover, what did you think it is?"</li> </ul><p>some less so. My pre-xmas extraction from a site with bees on kamahi, nodding thistle, cabbage tree, fuchsia, supplejack, and some clover is probably some sort of mix of those with some added things i didn't spot. I gave some away recently and they came back with "your honey is really nice, reminds me of acacia honey, which was my favorite back home in Serbia."</p><p></p><p>what's the best approach? i've read somewhere that there might be someone doing pollen analysis somewhere around the top of the south island? any other obvious approaches? send jars of honey to any beekeepers who back themselves to identify through taste-testing?</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking of getting the post-xmas extraction tested for manuka markers, bees were on plenty of kanuka but it was easy enough to extract the day after pulling it off the hive so must have had a few other things in it..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tommy dave, post: 9875, member: 25"] I've been wondering for a while about how to figure out the main components of my various multi-floral honeys. some are simple: [LIST] [*]wellington hives, near masses of pohutukawa, crystallises into very fine crystals very quickly - pohutukawa [*]water white late season after a big clover flowering, gave a frame to a proper beekeeper to taste test with no clues to origin, he gave it a hive tool scrape and taste - immediately stated "clover, what did you think it is?" [/LIST] some less so. My pre-xmas extraction from a site with bees on kamahi, nodding thistle, cabbage tree, fuchsia, supplejack, and some clover is probably some sort of mix of those with some added things i didn't spot. I gave some away recently and they came back with "your honey is really nice, reminds me of acacia honey, which was my favorite back home in Serbia." what's the best approach? i've read somewhere that there might be someone doing pollen analysis somewhere around the top of the south island? any other obvious approaches? send jars of honey to any beekeepers who back themselves to identify through taste-testing? I'm thinking of getting the post-xmas extraction tested for manuka markers, bees were on plenty of kanuka but it was easy enough to extract the day after pulling it off the hive so must have had a few other things in it.. [/QUOTE]
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