Partial capped super.

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Crazyhorse

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I’ve just done my last extraction, but I have a couple of frames that were not fully capped reading about 21%. I left the frames and thought uncap and leave it for the bees to clean with the wet supers? Any thoughts?
 
As long as that are above the crown board and not in the hive itself you will be fine but it takes them along longer. Next time if you have a few uncapped frames after your main extraction, spin out uncapped honey and feed back in a rapid feeder instead of sugar water
 
I’ve just done my last extraction, but I have a couple of frames that were not fully capped reading about 21%. I left the frames and thought uncap and leave it for the bees to clean with the wet supers? Any thoughts?
I've recently extracted my last honey for this year. Two frames were full but uncapped. Refractometer samples were 16% so they were spun out into the storage bucket.
 

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