I too have noticed that some hives tend to draw out nice uniform comb and others just can't seem to do anything right.  I've experienced this on good honeyflows and on not so good honeyflows.  It seems that some hives are much better at it than others.  I wonder if this is why so many of us have different ideas about drawing comb out.  Maybe different strokes for different bees.  It could have something to do with the number of bees that the hive has at the time for this particular task.  You just have to try a few different things and see what works best for you.  What I try to do is to wait until the end of the honeyflow and then just as it is finishing, and I have large numbers of bees from the summer, I throw on my foundation for them to work out for next year.  I take off my excluder and usually the bees will work so fast that they will fill the box with capped honey before the queen can even lay.  Doesn't work out great all the time, but if I have big hives, and I!
  get them
 on at the right time, it works like a charm.


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