Hello All,
I'm a newbie to all this and I'm trying to implement some things I see recomended
1) I want to regress my bee's to small cell
2) I want to use all medium supers
both ideas from Michael Bush, and others as well
well, to begin with I had 2 deep boxes
that's what they sell beeginers
I made up a couple of deep frames with SC starter strips and fed them into brood nest 1/ week
hmm, how to combine this process with moving to all medium boxes
I got a couple of medium boxes and filled them with frames of SC starter strips
my plan is to feed one of these boxes onto the bottom of the hive
wait, maybe 5 weeks to let the bee's draw it out and raise a generation of bee's
then feed another box onto the bottom of the stack
another 5 weeks
feed in another box
does this sound pretty reasonable?
is 5 weeks about the right delay
they need to raise a generation and then they have to come of age to be building comb
I'll end up with my 2 deeps on the top of the stack and I can take em off and make em into footstools
:D
Dave