So, I did a split with a booming hive that looked fantastic starting the spring. It just happens to be made up of three 10 frame medium supers. After I noted only one empty frame in the top after the split, I added a honey super. Now, the honey super is progressing okay, mostly uncapped, but heavy. In the top medium(which I feel is part of the brood chamber), there are 8 frames of capped honey, one empty frame and one frame that is mostly honey and some pollen. Should I pull most of the honey and add empty medium frames? If I do that, will they still work on capping the honey? The bottom two mediums are all nice brood patterns, honey, pollen, etc. If I add empty frames and take the honey, will they build back up in time AND still make more surplus? I think this sounds right, but I just want to double check. Thank you in advance.
A lot of variables in your questions and you need an answer from someone in your zip code. Even then, that person does not know when it will rain or not rain. In my location, I would pull the capped frames and extract them and put them right back on. The bees tend to refill wet fames fast. Remember that the bees need well over twice as many empty cells to spread out nectar to dry it down than the finished honey will take. Either put another super on or extract the capped to make that room or hopefully do both.