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What makes a jar monofloral
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- The two-kilometre circle
- Why six kilometres costs more than it brings
- Three and a half kilos of nectar
- What a flow actually is
- Maple, willow and the first dandelions
- Fruit blossom and hawthorn
- The main flow: black locust and clover
- Linden in July
- The gap in the middle of the year
- Goldenrod and the winter stores flow
- Ivy, the last flow
- Oilseed rape, the flow that sets in the comb
- What makes a jar monofloral
- Putting a super on at the start of a flow
- Pulling it at the end
- Reading a capping percentage
- Eighteen point six percent
- Honey that ferments
- Crystallisation is physics, not spoilage
- Creaming by the Dyce method
- A year of varieties and what each is worth
A monofloral honey is one plant's honey: acacia, linden, heather, rape. The research's variety table lists them by colour, flavour, crystallisation speed and what each fetches, but it never says what share of one plant makes a jar that plant's honey, because in practice that is settled by pollen analysis under rules that differ from country to country.
This game needs a line, so it draws one. A super is a variety when a single plant supplied at least 60 percent of the kilos in it, and anything under that is wildflower. That is this game's rule, not a legal standard. What it means in practice is one clear window, one box, and no waiting around after the window closes.