Double Brood to Single

[Swift Nick]

I have a double brood box (14 x 12), that I set up for queen rearing. I have it set up with a Cloake board between the boxes and double entrance floor beneath the lower brood box.
The upper brood box is mostly nectar, some pollen and some drone brood, because the queen excluder in the Cloake board has been in place for a little while.
I am using the upper box this week to finish some Nicot cell cups I have put in (today), I transferred from Nicot box in the lower box.
After I transfer the queen cells to the incubator, I will be left with this double brood with the upper box mostly filled with nectar.
I want to reduce this down to one brood box for the winter, I can put a QE in between the boxes (after taking out the Cloake board), but I don’t want to extract honey from the upper brood box, the comb is quite black, is there a way, for example, of putting the upper brood box above the supers, over a crown board, so the bees, clear the nectar/ honey put and store it in the supers? Like when cleaning up supers?
This is my first go at double BB & queen rearing, so any advice for sorting out the double BB would be good.

 

[enrico]

I think I understand you. I would put it under the brood box over winter. They will use the stores and move up into the top box.
E

 

[eltalia]

"I want to reduce this down to one brood box for the winter"

There is then the issue of numbers to address - your Plan is?

As to the capped stores...?.. depending on your stack config in respect
of insulation and air circulation they can be stacked above a meshed
divider.

Bill

 

[Show me the honey]

"I want to reduce this down to one brood box for the winter"

There is then the issue of numbers to address - your Plan is?

As to the capped stores...?.. depending on your stack config in respect
of insulation and air circulation they can be stacked above a meshed
divider.

Bill

Your forgetting one thing.........

 

[eltalia]

Your forgetting one thing.........

I'm quite sure whatever is queued up somewhere, waiting 'dew' to
bounce/flounce any perceived enlightenment.

/grinz/

Bill

 

[Swift Nick]

I think I understand you. I would put it under the brood box over winter. They will use the stores and move up into the top box.
E

Thanks E, that would seem a simple but good plan, let the bees sort themselves out through the autumn.

 

[madasafish]

I think I understand you. I would put it under the brood box over winter. They will use the stores and move up into the top box.
E

+1
Works for me with Langs

 

[Anduril]

Your forgetting one thing.........

I know what you mean!
I agree with Enrico.

 

[eltalia]

Thanks E, that would seem a simple but good plan, let the bees sort themselves out through the autumn.

Mid July now so at some point in time long before any winter packdown those
supers are going to fill more than they are now - without extraction.
What's the Plan for those?

Bill

 

[Erichalfbee]

I think I understand you. I would put it under the brood box over winter. They will use the stores and move up into the top box.
E

I do that with my uncapped supers
It works a treat but close the entrance down to prevent robbing

 

[Swift Nick]

I do that with my uncapped supers
It works a treat but close the entrance down to prevent robbing

Thanks, good point on the entrance.