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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stephen Horsley" data-source="post: 9583" data-attributes="member: 491">Learning as I go. Haven't done a full season yet and my single hive turned into two hives early on with me removing the queen as I had sone queen cells that had hatched. I'm running 3/4 boxes and single brood box. I put two supers on through the flow and have extracted a box off each then just took 1/2 out of the last remaining supers thinking to leave the remaining honey for their winter stock. I have more honey than I know what to do with so thought rather than feed sugar over winter I would let the bees have it.I checked the hives today and both supers are full and there is some capped honey in the outer brood box frames. How much honey does a 3/4 single brood box need for winter? Is there a danger of them filling more frames in the brood box or should I replace some frames with wet empty frames?</blockquote>

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