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Just wondering if any of you are vaping this way and your results.
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Thanks for that , im using a thin eke with a bit of copper pipe (10mm )through the side of the eke .As the temps drops you will get more onto the bees from above as it crystallises quicker and drops faster
Doesn’t matter.As the temps drops you will get more onto the bees from above as it crystallises quicker and drops faster
No of course not but enough coats the frames and the walls of the boxThey can't spread it around if it's dropped down through the floor mesh
I don't see why not. I cobbled a plywood roof together to fit my two tier poly nucs and judging by the clouds coming out of the entrance, I'd say it gets everywhere.I vape from above too via an eke, mainly as my colonies are in polyhives with plastic entrances or in WBCs and a Sublimox pipe doesn’t work vaping below. For the first time I’m overwintering some colonies with a taller stack (7 over 7 and a reduced super box, dummied down with fat dummies, so there’s space in the spring for early expansion and simulating a tree type shape in nature). So have been wondering if the acid will get around effectively.
Roughly how large is your "vaping" box ? Trying to vap from below on WBC hives is near impossible.I don't do any wood turning unfortunately but liked what Pargile did to vap nucs from above. I have made a small box out of ply which sits above the feeder hole and vap that way or from underneath. Yet to workout if there is a difference.
I've a "winter" honey super directly under the crown board. The CB has a beespace above the super's frames.Took some videos a few years ago vaping from above via an eke and a clear crownboard.
IMO it seems to disperse better than doing it through the entrance with an OMF you can see the OA get pulled down through the frames as the bees start to fan as opposed to fighting the direction of the hive ventillation doing it through the entrance.
It will work both ways.I've a "winter" honey super directly under the crown board. The CB has a beespace above the super's frames.
I could just vape through the CB feed hole with a "box" to enclose the vapouriser over the feed hole (as suggested above), but would it be better to remove the CB and inset an eke for vapouriser and but the CB back on with the feed hole still covered?
around 10cm x 10cm (any smaller would have been a bit too fiddly).Roughly how large is your "vaping" box ? Trying to vap from below on WBC hives is near impossible.
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