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Charles > Singles, for me without any hesitation is the way to go. I come back from CA with doubles, we make one split and an excluder and super up, starting with 2 supers.
Charles, are you splitting the doubles 50/50 and requeening or are you taking a nuc out?
50/50 split, some brood on both sides and a mated queen. I add a bit more brood to the side with the new queen with the expectation it will take here a week or better to get in the swing of things.
I did some of all the methods this year again, in a more balanced trial. Those we pulled just a nuc from were much more prone to swarming than the equal splits. Not sure if that was a fluke or mismanagement, but I lost a lot of swarms this season from those hives.
On a side note I kept 40 out and did nothing but 50/50 splits (with mated queens) they got split almost 4 times (no honey to speak of) resulting in about 300 hives at this point. I was curious as to how that would work. All were given already drawn comb so they went a bit faster, but no feed.
Charles
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