good grafts

[chillardbee]

well, remember the post started about polishing cell cups, since then i've grafted 2 times 120 each time, and now i have 210 cells so a little less then 90% turned out. i think rearing queens has got to be the funnest part of beekeeping other than taking off tons of honey or building them up for the flow....oh heck with it, it's all fun.

[peggjam]

So, did you polish your queen cells or what?

[swarm_trapper]

we also let the bees polish queen cell cups i think it makes a diferance. And yea raiseing queens is definatly a fun part of beekeeping i would think it is the most fun part but like you say it is all fun. Nick

[Dan Williamson]

>>i think rearing queens has got to be the funnest part of beekeeping

I sure makes you feel like a proud papa when you see those babies have emerged and are laying.

[chillardbee]

yep, thats for sur dan and i did let them polish the cells peggjam, i think i'll be letting them polish the cells here on in

[peggjam]

I just grafted my first batch today. We'll see how many they accept in a few days. It went alright after the first 6 cells, I switched tools and kinda like the plastic tool from JBZ(???) better than the one from China. I might have gotten a few larva that were too old at first, but then started getting ones I could only see with the light, unless I looked real hard. I don't know, we'll see.....

[Dan Williamson]

Good luck!