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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: Trapper1 on February 08, 2016, 12:35:49 PM

Title: Making Splilts
Post by: Trapper1 on February 08, 2016, 12:35:49 PM
I have never made splits but will this Spring.   Can I expect honey from the splits this summer if made split made correctly? 
Title: Re: Making Splilts
Post by: Michael Bush on February 08, 2016, 12:55:05 PM
"correctly" is wide open to interpretation.  A cut down split two weeks before the flow may get you a crop and a split and possibly even a bumper crop.

http://www.bushfarms.com/beessplits.htm#cutdown
Title: Re: Making Splilts
Post by: Rurification on February 09, 2016, 03:14:48 PM
Thanks for the refresher, Michael.   I've read through your site top to bottom, and have your big book, too, but every year I re-read and new things pop out at me.    Here's hoping I can do a split this year.