> I have had good luck with using supers of foundation as honey supers. > When the bees come home from almond pollination (or during pollination) we > make a three- or four-frame split from the second brood box on strong > hives. What do you replace the frames removed for the split with? Comb or foundation? > This helps to prevent a honey-barrier in the second box, that Allen > mentioned as being a problem. One or two deep supers with plastic > foundation go on at the beginning of April. Onto the original hives? What about the splits? > Our first nectar flow peaks at the beginning of May, and when it happens > the supers will all be drawn out and honey is capped over a period of > several days. I have had that experience, too. Supers drawn out and capped in a week on silver willow in June. > This seems to only work well with early and very intense nectar flows in > my area. For the later flows the bees will not draw foundation unless it > is placed in the brood chamber. Good points. Thanks. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm