I understand this topic has been written about through this blog extensively and I have read a lot of it, but I want to add a twist to the question of when to add.
My situation is this. I installed two nucs into two 10 frame deeps roughly two weeks ago. Here in Vermont the summer flow starts roughly NOW as I understand it (1st year bee keeping). The two hives have not been drawing very much comb in the deeps, so I basically have the original 5 frames plus a little comb in each. So basically they need to draw out another deep before I can hope to put on medium supers.
My question is this, should I add deeps now ahead of the flow and move two of the original nuc frames up hoping to jump start the second deep?
I'm sure hoping they can draw out the second deep and get into the honey supers this year.
My situation is this. I installed two nucs into two 10 frame deeps roughly two weeks ago. Here in Vermont the summer flow starts roughly NOW as I understand it (1st year bee keeping). The two hives have not been drawing very much comb in the deeps, so I basically have the original 5 frames plus a little comb in each. So basically they need to draw out another deep before I can hope to put on medium supers.
My question is this, should I add deeps now ahead of the flow and move two of the original nuc frames up hoping to jump start the second deep?
I'm sure hoping they can draw out the second deep and get into the honey supers this year.