That's a great method for helping out a hive that's slow to draw comb. And it's important to note that particular hives will be strong comb builders which can be utilized by the beekeeper. I "paint" an extra layer of wax on plastic foundation which definitely helps the bees get started. The time of year is also very important: a strong nectar flow or supplemental feeding is a crucial element.

Bees don't see foundation as expansion room sometimes, only comb..that's why you see hives swarm with clogged broodnest and a whole box of empty foundation they could've drawn out,but with comb started they have a ladder and fix bee space on next frames, Brood works even better newbies.Great info totally agree great way!!

I give my foundation an extra coat of bees wax and it helps plus leave the excluder off until they get them drawn then check for the queen move her down and put it on. Brood will hatch out before you pull the honey.

Once they have started to draw and fill it take off the queen excluder they will have greater access to it and they will draw it out very quickly. Once there is honey up there the queen will not cross it. It works a treat every time.

Brood frames are magical. I only have one 6-1/4" super that I use to take my personal use honey, I run it with only 8 frames spaced out, once it's full and capped, I pull the frames and add a riser which makes it into a standard deep.

I don't use plastic but have done this with success in other situations. Good tip👍 now what I need to know is how to get them to draw the comb all the way out, nice and even so that each frame is completely level and filled. Ha.

Nice trick I actually put some fresh super frames in the brood chamber after drawing the combs I remove the super frames from the brood chamber and put in the supers and that works.

I just pull an outside frame of honey and move the brood over one spot and put a deep frame brood in the super for a few days to coax them up into the super to cover the brood, but they draw a little comb on the bottom of the deep, but you can cut it into strips and lay it on top bars of the super to give it their smell and they'll claim it as their own then. That's why I only run deeps in everything and pull capped frames as needed, I run 10 and 5 frame double deep langstroughs for everything, which makes everything simple, in spring buildup I can do splits and make 2 nuks and 2 - 10 frame production colonies, from 1 of my double deeps overwintered colonies by watching closely of the swarm cells, swarm queens are better than anything you can buy.

I have had a problem doing this and they just draw those frames of honey extra deep into the foundation frames. I keep the drawn frames together in the center and hopefully they work to each side drawing normal comb.

I don't bother with Super Frames... All my Hives use Brood Frames ! You can add Brood Frames into two Supers on top of each other... bit of Space for Drone Comb, as Bees desire ! (You can easily trim this off pre - Honey Extraction / Harvesting. Also... better to not take one Frame from one Colony to another, might be pathogens, you can't see. Better to take Outer Honey Frame in Brood Box, move that up to Central position in Your 'Honey Box' 2nd level Brood Box & Frames etc... [aka non Super !] And in that Brood Box : added New Frame(s) into the centre of the Nest, move Frames so outer position is filled with another potential Honey Frame ! (Move that to next added Honey Box... Next time. Get it ! Easy to do even if you have only one Hive ! Bees get drawn up into that New Box.... Also if you confine said area with some Dummy Boards... Bees fill the centre Frames quicker... Bees don't like big empty draughty places ! 🤭 Try this... it works every time. Same applies to all New boxes, whether it's a Nuc into a x10 Frame Brood Chamber, confine it, and it builds up way faster ! 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Happy Beekeeping 2022. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Say Hi from a very Sunny and Warm Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤣 Yes... it did get to 28C today, lovely ! And I now have x16 Colonies, having started with x2 Wintered Hives (lost x4, even one in late April, doh! Queen OK on 10th, Dead on the 22nd ?) Don't lose Bees, prevent Swarming, and make your Own Queens 👑 ✔ I use Langstroth Brood Frames in my x2, x5, x10 Boxes, even in Supers ! Dummy Boards are timber strips : Glued, Screwed to (Dumpster) Insulation Foam Board. Nice, easy, works, and Cheap to make. 😉 Nice Video by the way. 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝 Unless you know your Bees very well.... I wouldn't swap anything from one Hive to add to another.... I have several Hive Tools, or clean it, in between Inspections etc. All Nucs, are made into each Box and isolated until Queens are made (Queen Cells) or adding a Spare Queen.... until you see that Brood Pattern, best to not swap stuff about. Just saying ! 👍

Do you have a "follow-up" video showing the progress of comb being built on the slower super? Many thx, DS from Ohio

Great video. I am certainly not questioning your method, but it has been my experience that placing a drawn comb frame in the first and last frame position with foundation frames in between seems to draw the bees up. Otherwise, I concur with JTR Bees in that all drawn comb frames should be grouped, together and all foundation frames grouped together. For me, Intermixing or “checkerboarding” drawn comb frames and foundation frames always result in really thick drawn frames and very thin (hard to uncap) foundation frames.

I have seen where it helps to remove the queen excluder (QE) until the bees start building out comb similar to the ones you have transplanted from the other hive. Once they start building out comb you can put the QE back in before they build the comb out all the way....therefore no chance of the queen laying eggs up in the honey super.

0:52 - Possibly they are Not invested in hive because they are planning to swarm? its a thought

great video

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Hey there , I’m in the states, what kind of boxes are you using are they styrofoam? Could you post the name of them ? Enjoyed your video !

Disappointed that there was no follow up video with a status! Did it work?

Might give this a try, we have 1 hive with vast amount of honey in brood box but not building super, its neighbour doing very well

What kind of bee boxes are those?

Would adding a top feeder while they draw the super help them draw.

this works if your supers and frames are the same sizes, sadly in my case they are not. at least I didn't buy the oddly sized equipment.

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What?

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