We are starting our main nectar flow of the year and my top bar hive which was started from a package on April 17 has a fully built out brood area that is about 10 bars. As calculated previously on the forum, my bars are about 84% the size of a Langstroth deep frame.
They are also starting to draw out 4 bars at the end of the brood area for nectar/honey storage.
If I don't do anything I suspect that the brood area will become limited by the first bar of honey, so should I add a blank bar or two in the brood area to allow them to draw that out? Will that take resources from them storing nectar/honey? I don't have any drawn comb that I can just drop in.
Thanks,
Kevin
They are also starting to draw out 4 bars at the end of the brood area for nectar/honey storage.
If I don't do anything I suspect that the brood area will become limited by the first bar of honey, so should I add a blank bar or two in the brood area to allow them to draw that out? Will that take resources from them storing nectar/honey? I don't have any drawn comb that I can just drop in.
Thanks,
Kevin