Grafting is not as easy as it looks

[slacker361]

First of all just about every time i go into the hive i can find her majesty... Need her to put in the picot system and can't find her at all. So i tried some grafting tonight  they might have been to old , but those little suckers aren't easy to get out

[Michael Bush]

The right age is where there is a pool of royal jelly with a slight imperfection in the surface.  That imperfection is the correct aged larvae...  If you can see them, they are too old.  :)

[BjornBee]

Here is some information that may help:
http://www.nsqba.com/graftingtipsinfo.html

[slacker361]

Thanks guys, yeah the ones that I used were to old LOL.... I hate to rip apart the hive again, since I just had it apart yesterday.... Think I will buy a queen to get her in a  nuc so i can:

1 find her when I need her ( isn't that always the way)

2 not screw up my one and only hive that I have remaining