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Installing a 4 frame nuc (on foundation) into a foundationless hive

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#1 ·
Hi Everyone ,

New Beekeeper here. I have a 4 frame nuc coming. It will be on standard foundation. I'd like to go foundationless. If I put the 4 frames of the nuc in th middle of the brood box with 3 empty frames on each side, will that work? I'll flip the wedge and use that as my starter strip on the blank frames and rotate the nuc frames out over time. Thoughts?

Thanks so much.
 
#2 ·
If it's 4 frames of brood comb, you can stagger the frames like EEBEBEBEBE and it should work fine+get the foundationless frames drawn out a little faster...
HOWEVER, seeing that you're in Maine, I'm not completely sure whether your weather is warm enough to allow breaking up the cluster that much yet, so I'll defer on that part to someone with more cold-climate bee experience than my warm-blooded, coastal-dwelling self ;)
 
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