adding another brood box question

[pdmattox]

I have some hives that are a deep and a med. and some that are a deep and two med. to add another deep could i just put it on top of the mediums, or do i need to do something else?

[Fannbee]

Newbee person.

I am in the same exact situation with one  hive.  I am in the middle of Mississippi and the cotton around me is in the final stages of bloom.  Goldenrod is in another month.   I do not have drawn comb and the brood box would be just foundation.  


The second hive is weak and I requeen.  The queen was released last Wednesday, but I did not see her this past Saturday (she is mark).    I thought I saw some queen cells, but I am not sure.  I am going to let look at the hive this Wednesday and hope everything is OK.

[Brian D. Bray]

If you are putting on another deep, place it under the mediums that way you will have 2 deeps as a brood box and the mediums can be harvested later.  You may find that there is brood in the mediums when you go to harvest it.  I use all mediums so that I can move such frames into the brood chamber and remove a frame of honey from the brood chamber.
Uniformity makes for simplicity of operation.

[pdmattox]

If it maters there is brood in the mediums and that is why i question what to do.  I already have gotten the honey off , treated and just trying to build up for next year.

[Brian D. Bray]

In that case just leave the medium in place and let them winter over.  Place the other super on top--you can always switch the boxes after the brood is hatched or leave it as extra stores.