You need to surround the open queen cell with open brood because
that is what is needed to bring up the nurse bees to feed the queen 
cells not sealed brood. Once the cells are caped the finisher now 
becomes a incubator and sealed brood is preferred.

An excluder stops the queen sent from getting around the queen cell so
the nurse bees will feel they are queen less and feed the queen cells.


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Eric Brown wrote:
>  What
> difference would it make if I surrounded my queen cells in the cell 
> finisher with open brood versus sealed brood?  Once the queen cells are 
> sealed does the optimal set-up in the cell finisher change?
> 

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