Capped brood in 14 days

[newbee101]

These are new packages installed on April 22. The photos were taken yesterday.
I was impatient and uncorked the queens 2 days after installing them.
Both hives have about the same amount of capped brood. I gave them each,
8 frames of drawn comb with honey and pollen reserves.
I also added the 2nd deeps yesterday because the comb needs to be cleaned up and repaired.

[Kirk-o]

Looks good keep going
kirko

[DayValleyDahlias]

What a beautiful area you have for your bees!  Gorgeous photos too!  How do you tell capped brood from capped honey?

[Cindi]

newbee101.  What a beautiful place for your hives to be set.  The pictures are astounding.

DayValleyDahlias.  The capping on the brood will look a little "porous" looking and very slightly raised.   The capping on honey is flatter and looks more like wax.  Look at some pictures on the internet, you will see a definite difference.  When you see this in your colony you will not take long to recognize what capped brood looks like, very discernable.  HAve a wonderful day, great life and health.  Cindi

[Understudy]

My wife cares not about your very cool brood frame and wants to know what is the green leafy things growing around the hives. She thinks it may be some type of lettuce. Please let me know what it is so she will stop pestering me.

Sincerley,
Brendhan

[DayValleyDahlias]

I wonder what that greenery is too...some sorta look like fiddlehead fern thingies...

[Scadsobees]

Looks like skunk cabbage.  In a salad it tastes a lot like chicken cabbage. :-D

[Cindi]

It looks to me like it is giant Joi Choi, aka Bok Choi.  If you have ever noticed yellow stinky flowers coming out the centre then for surely it is skunk cabbage.  Ours has just finished flowering in our ravine and it is so stinky everywhere near there.  I know it can be eaten, maybe gonna try it one day, supposed to be yummy.  Imagine that!!!  Best of a beautiful day, great life, great health.  Cindi