- Sat Oct 14, 2023 1:47 pm
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Meanwhile along the Northern Colorado front range we had our first frost last night. My thermos says 28 degrees F. Water under flytraps is frozen.
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specialkayme wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 12:05 pmSo you find the taste of honey derived from goldenrod to be disagreeable?
Well it tastes better than it smells, so that's something.
In the fall, as you walk through the apiary, you can tell if goldenrod is in bloom because the entire apiary smells like dirty gym socks.
specialkayme wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 12:05 pm In the fall, as you walk through the apiary, you can tell if goldenrod is in bloom because the entire apiary smells like dirty gym socks.Interesting. I wonder if others would agree with you? It has been a long time since I took a good sniff of goldenrod, but I don’t recall it having a strong scent, nor one that was unpleasant. It might be one of those scents that comes across as different to different folks. I’ve come across a surprising number of floral scents that have that quality. For example, star gazer lilies. Members of my family find the scent very appealing (but too strong to have indoors), but my sister’s best friend says they smell like an outhouse. I know a lot of folks who like forcing paperwhites indoors in the spring. I tried that once and will never do so again. To my nose they had a harsh, strong chemical odor that filled the entire room. I have noticed with at least some Hoya, that the scent changes with the time of day. Midday, the scent would be sweet, but in the evening it would have an unpleasant chemical odor. This would repeat day after day so it wasn’t due to the age of the blooms. Probably the most bizarre situation I encountered was an orchid I used to own a couple eons ago. To my sis and me, the blooms smelled like ripe melon. To one coworker it smelled like rotting fish. To a another, yet something else. Had one coworker comment that, to her, the scent was elusive…not at all unpleasant but one she just couldn’t put her finger on. I’ve also noticed that whether a plant is blooming indoors or outside can make a difference. I can’t have hyacinths indoors. The scent is too pungent and unpleasant. However, outdoors is a different matter entirely. Perhaps, indoors, whatever floral volatiles one finds unpleasant are more concentrated and therefore more noticeable or are able to interact more effectively with other compounds to produce the scent one finds disagreeable?
DragonsEye wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 2:28 pmNo. There isn't any honey that I find disagreeable though. It's just different. Buckwheat is very rich and dark. Some love it, some hate it. Sourwood gives almost a sourish twang to the honey. Some love it, some hate it. Some honey is perceivably sweeter than others (fructose vs. glucose vs. sucrose in finished honey). It's all honey though. In one market, one is a premium product. In another market, the other is.
So you find the taste of honey derived from goldenrod to be disagreeable?
DragonsEye wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 2:28 pmInteresting. I wonder if others would agree with you?There is a saying in beekeeping: ask 4 beekeepers a question and you'll get 5 answers.
DragonsEye wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 2:28 pmIt has been a long time since I took a good sniff of goldenrod, but I don’t recall it having a strong scent, nor one that was unpleasant.You're confusing the smell of flowers with the smell of ripening honey. Flowers have certain aromatic compounds that don't transfer over to ripening honey. And nectar has a moisture content of typically 60-95%, and the bees reduce that down to about 16%. In the process, they evaporate off many things, and make it a much more concentrated scent.
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