prefered method of supering

[mamapoppybee]

wanting to know what method of suppering you prefer? weather it be place the new deep underneath the current construction or on top and how do you benefit from your form used?

[Woody Roberts]

The bees want the honey above the broodnest. So I go on top. In the event that one is full but not capped I set the second under it.

I'm pretty small time. I tend to only run one super per hive. Could be a medium, could be a deep. When I can pull 6 or more capped frames out of however many hives I have in one spot I extract them and put the wet frames right back.
A few days later I'll need to do it again, hopefully.

[LazyBkpr]

situational.... but usually I add supers on top, and bring up three or four frames, swapping the empty frames into the super below.   With the ever present threat of dearth I like to leave supers on as long as possible, but pull them to extract before the goldenrod flow.  A few honey frames in the freezer just in case the goldenrod/fall flow is a flop.

[riverbee]

i top super. the benefit for me?  i may have multiple supers on a hive. i don't have to move full honey supers to check the one on the bottom being worked.

[tbonekel]

Same here, Riv. But I'm still new and this is my first ever honey flow so I'm still learning a lot. I put additional supers on two hives recently and moved a frame of capped honey into the top super thinking that would get the bees up there. I now know the advantage to placing an empty frame between fully drawn frames now. They work it hard and fast!

[blueblood]

I top super.  If there is a dearth, I remove any fully capped frames so they don't move it south.

[tefer2]

We top super here also, don't want to remove a full boxes to look at the empty ones!