Requeening faux pas - help!

[Casey Overland]

I am a one year beekeeper and need some help. My thriving hive swarmed on 5/2, I had them all gathered up by 6:00 pm same day in two deeps. A queen was on order, and I originally planned on splitting hive and introducing new queen when I picked her up on 5/9. Here's where it gets dicey. Since the delay between swarm and requeening, I planned originally to allow original hive to produce queen, and start nuc with new queen. Probably ignorance & indecision and fear of losing remaining robustness of orig. hive (two deeps plus excluder with one honey deep), after doing my best to eliminate queen cells and cups, I introduced the caged-queen on 5/10 into the original hive. What is readers assessment: will workers accept introduced queen or revert to raising a queen already in production? I plan on going in tomorrow 5/13 to check status. thanks for help.

[bjerm2]

If I read you right and If there was no queen in the hive that your trying to introduce no problem because of the time frame involved. If there was no queen laying eggs for a while and you destroyed all queen cells started then because of the lenght of time the workers would not try to raise another queen because the larva is to old to make a new queen. Bottom line you should have no problems introducing the new queen.
Dan :D