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One or two brood boxes, Honey flow, when to super and collateral damage.
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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 9239" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>One or two brood boxes is just a management choice, you do manage them different but just go with whatever you prefer.</p><p></p><p>As to further supering, what I do is if it's a strong flow just add more, and I'll go underneath the bottom honey super if I got the energy to lift the others off. When it's getting towards the end of the flow I only super on top. That way if the flow dies the bees won't fill it, rather than if it was under there's a bunch of 1/2 full supers to extract, more work for the same amount of honey.</p><p></p><p>And yes, just got to accept you going to squish a few bees. Don't like it, try to minimise, but some squishes are inevitable</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 9239, member: 13"] One or two brood boxes is just a management choice, you do manage them different but just go with whatever you prefer. As to further supering, what I do is if it's a strong flow just add more, and I'll go underneath the bottom honey super if I got the energy to lift the others off. When it's getting towards the end of the flow I only super on top. That way if the flow dies the bees won't fill it, rather than if it was under there's a bunch of 1/2 full supers to extract, more work for the same amount of honey. And yes, just got to accept you going to squish a few bees. Don't like it, try to minimise, but some squishes are inevitable [/QUOTE]
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