Can bees make honey from hemp?
Can bees make honey from hemp?
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wordsmith
Bees swarming to hemp plants will not make honey production from it. Simply because hemp is nectar-poor, meaning it can’t produce enough nectar for bees. They require nectar in order to produce honey. However, hemp’s impact on bees is efficient since the crop can produce a large amount of pollen and pollination makes food production to be possible.
Moogdummy
Cannabis honey has been produced before by a man named Nicholas Trainer-bees. He accomplished this by successfully getting his bees to make honey with cannabis resin. But there are physiological differences between cannabis and hemp and there has so far been no word of a similar experiment being used with a specifically hemp derived element.
Hempmaster3000
Nope! Certain types of hemp is being added to honey, not the other way around. This has been a hot button question since more people are discovering Hemp Honey.
amanda.tolar
Nope–hemp does not create nectar so you can’t get honey from it in the way that you’re able to with wildflower, clover, et cetera. They can, however, pollinate hemp.
Moogdummy
I would disagree with CrayM.
There are known beekeepers that have successfully experimented with making canna-honey by feeding the flower resins to bees that afterward make honey.
Bees make honey from a variety of flowers.
Cannabis/hemp make flowers that have resins. Probably not as much sugar content as other flowers, but it is definitely possible to get them to make honey from cannabis flowers.
CrayM
The simple answer, no. Hemp Honey has become a popular product in the past few years because many companies are now adding hemp extract to their honey. Confusing people in the process and creating this idea that bees can make honey from hemp.