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Offline JUDELT

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WOW! That was quick!
« on: June 26, 2014, 06:08:01 pm »
When I opened my hives this afternoon, I got a good surprise! The "bearding hive had filled their 1st super 3/4 with honey in a little over a week! I put another super on them right away!

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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2014, 06:34:08 pm »
Flow must be on like donkey kong!
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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2014, 05:15:14 am »
It never ceases to amaze me how fast a super can be filled when you have an intense flow and an abundant population in the hive.
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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2014, 07:35:33 am »
Me too Apis.  And then, on the opposite side, take forever when a flow is not as strong and the population is lower from say, a recent swarm of the hive.
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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2014, 12:11:37 pm »
Blue- "Me too Apis.  And then, on the opposite side, take forever when a flow is not as strong and the population is lower from say, a recent swarm of the hive.

    Or TEN swarms! A lot of recooping going on in my hives!

Blue- "Flow must be on like donkey kong! ...... :D

     Flow On and Stay Calm
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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2014, 12:20:39 pm »
I didn't think there was much of anything blooming ,but they found something!
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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2014, 10:28:21 am »
I have a couple of hives that were filling supers every 3 days for about 10 days. I'm out of drawn comb and that slowed them down.
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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2014, 12:53:59 pm »
That is why we have extractors an supers per colony is to provide the space for the bees to forage and ripen the honey with supers to exchange who'll we pull off full to extract.
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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2014, 07:52:31 pm »
Do you put a queen excluder on between your deep and super?
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Re: WOW! That was quick!
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2014, 08:40:34 pm »
If it is foundation that they hve to draw out then no leave them off until the bees are working the super well


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