lack of honey......in supers

[madasafish]

Well as an "average beekeeper" (or maybe below average).. I have three langs with one super on each.

One - a MB poly with jumbo brood box - has all the combs in the brood box drawn out and is drawing out the combs in super#1.

The other two - wooden with 1 off jumbo brood boxes- started later than the MB one - and have not drawn out all the jumbo brood boxes and have not started drawing out the supers.

All are foundationless.

The first has an impressive mount of capped brood and soon to emerge bees- far more than any TBH I have seen in my four years..which may explain why TBHs produce less honey - they have less volume and fewer bees..

 

[ratcatcher]

as a humble beginner, I would say your problem is a lack of bees, so if the queen has not got the space to lay, perhaps remove a frame of stores, or at the very least, extract it,
a swarm I picked up was LARGE, it filled a commercial brood box and one super, the same day I housed it in our woods, and added an extra super, 10 days later and the added super on wax starter strips had built comb and was nearly filled with honey, no excluder's removed, so the only difference I can see is numbers of bees ?

http://youtu.be/UfA75sZOigU

 

[Finman]

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Fast build up...

It is possible. I had a 3 frame colony this summer and after 2 weeks it had two boxes. Trick was that I took bees and emerging frames from bigger hives.

I bought a 2 box hive and I moved bees to 6 weak colonies. So I got full box of brood at the first week of June and I get home bees and foragers for July.