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[ocba] what to do with partially capped honey frames?
- From: Julie Grill <jhgrill AT hotmail.com>
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- Subject: [ocba] what to do with partially capped honey frames?
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 19:41:14 +0000
I am in my second year of beekeeping and this is the first season I have used honey supers. I harvested honey from one of my hives back in June. I left the honey super on the hive and left behind 2 + frames of partially capped honey and filled in with
empty frames for the bees. Since then, the bees added more nectar/honey to 3 more frames, but none of them are full or sufficiently capped to extract. There is some honey in the brood box, but seems like they need to have more there.
I removed the super thinking I should encourage the bees to store honey in the brood box for winter, but am not sure if this was the right thing to do. I am feeding my other hive and also thought I should feed this one. If I leave the super off, what
do I do with the frames of mostly open honey/nectar? The super is a medium and the brood boxes are deeps.
Thanks for any advice!
Julie Grill
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- [ocba] what to do with partially capped honey frames?, Julie Grill, 08/22/2017
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