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Title: Grafting is not as easy as it looks
Post by: slacker361 on May 17, 2012, 10:08:20 PM
First of all just about every time i go into the hive i can find her majesty... Need her to put in the picot system and can't find her at all. So i tried some grafting tonight  they might have been to old , but those little suckers aren't easy to get out
Title: Re: Grafting is not as easy as it looks
Post by: Michael Bush on May 18, 2012, 12:19:29 AM
The right age is where there is a pool of royal jelly with a slight imperfection in the surface.  That imperfection is the correct aged larvae...  If you can see them, they are too old.  :)

Title: Re: Grafting is not as easy as it looks
Post by: BjornBee on May 18, 2012, 06:37:47 AM
Here is some information that may help:
http://www.nsqba.com/graftingtipsinfo.html (http://www.nsqba.com/graftingtipsinfo.html)

Title: Re: Grafting is not as easy as it looks
Post by: slacker361 on May 18, 2012, 09:02:34 AM
Thanks guys, yeah the ones that I used were to old LOL.... I hate to rip apart the hive again, since I just had it apart yesterday.... Think I will buy a queen to get her in a  nuc so i can:

1 find her when I need her ( isn't that always the way)

2 not screw up my one and only hive that I have remaining