removing supers

Started by Gware, May 23, 2010, 06:03:32 PM

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Gware

i read in a book to remove supers when they get capped and extract them! would this be an acceptable practice if u had a limited number of supers in which u could not keep adding them?

riverrat

if you got a super capped and ready to come off and that is the only super you have on you may have missed out on a lot of extra honey. when i super i super strong hives with 3 or 4 supers they will keep collecting nectar during a heavy flow but if they dont have any where to put it they will slow down better to have to many than not enough
never take the top off a hive on a day that you wouldn't want the roof taken off your house

iddee

But to answer your question, you can take a super, or individual frames, when capped, and put them back after extracting.

As RR said, you will get a smaller harvest when they run out of room.
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