Newbees this yr. and got 30 lbs from our one good hive yesterday!!!!!! That's a LOT of work! but fun. Wish I knew how to load a picture so I could show you the capped frames. We put the empty frames back on the hive and I froze the cap wax. what else do I need to do?
thanks
enjoy your honey :-)
your first year honey is always the best; isn't it!!
how long should I leave the empty frames on the hive for cleaning?
They will have everything cleaned up in hours, but leave it one for a day.
Took the cleaned up super off last night and put the frames in the freezer. there was a few capped cells on the very ends that I missed, shouldn't bee a problem, correct?
also, reading the excluder thread, I did not use one but, When the first honey box was drawn out about 80% we put a second box on. Then we flipped the two boxes so the new non drawn was below the 90% full box. they have not drawn very much of the second box. should I have put the extracted one below the newer non drawn? Maybe I could have gotten more honey.
question 3. when I went to get the extracted frames they were clean but bees were still all over the frames so I shook them off in front of the hive. you don't think there was a chance in Hades that the queen could have been up there do you??? Please say no, I didn't even think about it before I shook them all off.