I'm going to crush and strain 10 medium and 5 deep frames tsunday can I leave a one inch strip of comb and honey in the top for a starter strip?
kirko
Yes you can.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
good deal
kirko
The thing about crush and strain is that you can cut the comb anywhere - if you want all of the honey in the comb, you cut close to the edge of the frame, but if you want to leave starter strips, you can. I cut close to the frame and put the drippy frames back in the hive for the bees to clean up. They built a little comb then and Michael B said that I could put them into the hives just like that for starter strips - in other words, they don't have to have strips - just a model. You can see the pictures of that in this post:
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php?topic=6621.0
I put those frames in the hives as starters about a week ago and I'll report on Monday as to how/if the bees are drawing them out.
Linda T in the mountains where it's raining just like it's raining in Atlanta
Linda, can't wait til Monday. Have the great night, wonderful day, great health. Cindi
Good luck to everyone thank you for the help
Kirko
>can I leave a one inch strip of comb and honey in the top for a starter strip?
You don't need a one inch strip. One row of cells is plenty and a half row of cells will do.
Thank You michael for your support
kirko