Placing back drown combs

[limyw]

I only recently starting harvest honey. I placed back drawn combs to bottom and shifted most of blooded and egged combs to super by hopefully queen would quickly lay eggs on drawn combs. So this means after 2-3 weeks all combs in super would be vacant for honey.  Would my method correct?

I used queen excluder to prevent queen ventures to super.

[Finsky]

You have done correct!

[Michael Bush]

>I placed back drawn combs to bottom and shifted most of blooded and egged combs to super by hopefully queen would quickly lay eggs on drawn combs.

I assume this means you have all the same size frames?  Are you saying you put the brood and eggs above the excluder?  Is the queen in the bottom box with the empty combs?  In my experience the bees sometimes abondon the queen when you do this.  I try to leave at least one frame of open brood with the queen to draw the nurse bees down to take care of the queen.

>So this means after 2-3 weeks all combs in super would be vacant for honey. Would my method correct?

So you're using your brood combs for honey?  I don't have a problem as long as you don't use any chemicals or essential oils or anything else that could get in the combs that you don't want in the honey.

>I used queen excluder to prevent queen ventures to super.

So the queen can't get back to the brood nest?  This has lead to supercedures sometimes when I've tried it.  If you give the queen a bunch of room that's a good thing.  But restricting her from getting to any of the brood could backfire on you.

[Finsky]

To keep apart honey and brood he exluder is normal procedure in late summer. But if you have season on, bees raise often new queen in the part without queen.

In cool climate egg laying stops if you put queen in the lowest box and honey is not going in.

It depend too where you live, Finland, Mexico, Uruguay....

I just take my summer yield away. We have few flowers left.  After 3 weeks I put winter sugar in. Some professionals have started allready winterfeeding.

[limyw]

I assume this means you have all the same size frames?

Yes, all my combs are same size, interchangeable.

as long as you don't use any chemicals or essential oils

Yes, no chemical applied. If chemical needed, won't draw honey.

So the queen can't get back to the brood nest?

I noticed sometimes queen stop laying eggs if I restricted her from going up to brood nest. Is this what you means by 'backfire'?

In Malaysia we can keep bee round the year, only during rainy season we got low production, and production pick up when wheather is good. Major problem is high water content, due to high humidity. So our honey always has high water content, easily 23-26%.