The attraction of running without an queen excluder is you allow the colony to behave more naturally. hence the rose system. Also damage to other bees by the excluder? Anyway this is the system that appeals to me as it tallys with how I keep my other livestock.
Thx for replies.
To clarify I'd like to use national supers (i.e. shallow body) throughout.
If I don't get on with the rose method (or 'all-one-size method' if you prefer) then I can purchase the jumbo boxes (I thought these were called national deep) for brood and revert to a standard hive...
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I'm a newbie (forum and beekeeping). I did a course last year and couldn't decide on hive so didn't purchase last year. After a bit of research and lots of pondering I want to have a hive based on the national (and had decided national deep) for flexibility of hive parts etc whilst...
