Yes I was there too. Good wasn't it? I missed the to only "feed small amounts" - but isn't there still the danger that they'll simply keep draining that and putting it into the supers?
Not if you only top it up every 2-3 days.
it’s the Ben Harden method he was describing so a fairly easy method for small scale beekeepers.
The ideal would have been the previous year to write down that hive for reproduction, that is, to exclude it from the harvest and not to have supers in it, so this year you can organize the best way to obtain real cells from it.
You actually want the supers on even if not full to create distance between queen and the cell raising box!
there is
don't feed syrup or don't use that colony for honey production
I imagine that's a generic 'you' in regards to people using this method.
I was.
Take the hit, feed continuously while raising cells, if the frames get honey/syrup bound swap them for empties and use the full one for nuc building, thats what I do anyway.
We always have a good mix of people from across the world at the zoom lectures. Have you ever stayed for the chat afterwards? There’s opinions from the across all the States, Europe, and the UK all mixed in together about all sorts of subjects.
