Well you read the subject and thought that is strange.  Trouble is that I do not know.

We use a single box in Thailand and the brood and honey all go together.  You extract honey in season every four days by spinning all the frames in a hive which includes the brood ....

I want to explore the alternatives and so I have asked a woodworker to help me and I have two hives nearly completed which will allow supers to be mounted on top of the brood box.   As soon as the work is complete I will then build up the brood to eight or ten frames and if possible then add a second super to double to the colony size / strength.   So far so good.  The work is to modify the existing system used here rather than build a Langstroth hive for example.

I know at the beginning of the honey season I can add a queen excluder and a super.  But please tell me how many frames do you add to that super and when?  Is it a small number until they get going or do you add eight frames or what?

When do you add subsequent supers?

Sorry this should appear a totally dense question but things are a lot different here.

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