If your flow is just starting, and you did indeed get the queen, then you have done what amounts to a cutdown split. Theory is, it will increase your honey production for that colony, which is now queenless and will be done raising brood in another week, everything capped. While they are busy raising a new queen, they will pack on extra honey because the workers have no brood to tend.
I plan to do this intentionally to all of my producing colonies at the onset of our blackberry bloom in June.
I plan to do this intentionally to all of my producing colonies at the onset of our blackberry bloom in June.