>   There are several options I am considering to initiate the development 
> of the queen cells, none of which involve grafting (at this time).


I really don't understand why beekeepers want to raise queen cells with a 
non-grafting method. All the cell building set-up work is basically the 
same. Some sort of queenless starter, followed by a queenright finisher. 
All the mating nuc set-up is the same, or the re-queening work is the same. 
The only difference is in the grafting. And, in my opinion, grafting is the 
easy part.

And you get all your set-up work done, and your "all-you-gotta-do" method 
fails, and then where are you?
Mike


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