Beehive production ?

[Haperski]

I have gotten a beehive from the raffles and I just put down on my base without thinking.
There's absolutely no flowers in the map but when I whimsily check the beehive I have 120ish honey in it. Do they normally produce honey even without flowers ? What does flowers do if I decided later to finally plant some ?

[Iyasenu]

They do produce honey without flowers, but flowers increase how much you get, and also improve the level of the honeycomb, based on the level of the flowers.

[Haperski]

Will the flower level affect the beehive in anyway ?
Say I planted CHA potency flowers, will the honey have the CHA potency as well ?

Also, how many flowers should I plant for an optimal amount of honey ?
I think I'ts been a year since I installed the beehive on my base to get only around 120 units of honey, I wonder how much can I get if I get a flower farm going.

[Iyasenu]

The food trait of the seeds of the flowers won't have any effect, sadly.
They will influence the Quality trait on the honeycomb, though.
Like, a level +50 flower will produce something like honeycomb +5.

Also, I read that a ratio of 10 flowers per 1 beehive is good.
I've been doing that... ish.
I planted 100 flowers and have around 16 beehives, and it's fine enough.

And if you get tired of replanting flowers when/if they wither, don't forget about the option to use Defertilizer on them to freeze their maturation.

[ephang]

Originally posted by Haperski:

Will the flower level affect the beehive in anyway ?
Say I planted CHA potency flowers, will the honey have the CHA potency as well ?

Also, how many flowers should I plant for an optimal amount of honey ?
I think I'ts been a year since I installed the beehive on my base to get only around 120 units of honey, I wonder how much can I get if I get a flower farm going.

It does not get potential trait.

Flower number depends on how many beehive you have, each beehive get only 1 per daily, and then generate how many base on the flower number. And it need 30 spare fertility to get max production.

1 : 1 flower
2; 11 flower
3 ; 21 flower
4: 31 flower
5: 51 flower
6: 71 flower

More than that every beehive add 20 or 21 flower for max production.