Hatching to laying - whats the shortest time?

[plumberman]

There is a lot of information about possible maximal times from a queen hatching to a queen laying, but what are the minimal times people have experienced?

I made up a nucleus with a spare QC (No others present on the comb) that I know hatched between 26th and 27th June. Laying today (6th July -10 days later).

A couple of casts I had have also produced laying queens in roughly same time span.

What are others experiences?

 

[rae]

About 2 weeks is our quickest

We cut a spare queen cell out of a swarmy colony and gave it to a desperate nuc. We checked week later to see if they had looked after it, and it had emerged. Skipped the inspection the week after, this weeks inspection, eggs everywhere.

 

[Bees Plus]

That sounds quick - more normal for me has been 2 weeks ish.

 

[Headnavigator]

What's this? A blooming race?
If so, I'm not playing.

(cos my last two are dead slow if they've got there at all.)
(Sulk)

 

[beeatshellards]

must have had fertility drugsI reckon

 

[Midland Beek]

I guess some strains go out to mate at lower temperatures than others.