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Hi Guys,
It is nice to have a forum to learn from your experience and make my venture a success. They say if you have to go through a mine field, follow someone! Just not to close I guess! Anyway, I am a beginner again as had 4 nucs last Summer which didn't make it through the winter due to moisture issues as I believe I placed them to close to the bottom of a hill from the fungus or whatever the green stuff was that covered the frames, comb and bottom of the inner cover. I joined this forum last year but unfortunately forgot about it so lesson learned. I have 2-5 frame deep nucs on order and will pick them up in a few weeks. My first question for you pros out there is this. I have medium supers for brood and honey for consistency and because of back problems so wanted to keep the weight to around 50 lbs max. The 2 nucs on order are 5 deep frames each. How do I work the deep frames into the mediums? Do I join 2 medium supers together and treat them as a deep? Is it OK to have 5 medium frames and 5 deep frames for the bottom super? HELP!!! I feel stupid.
God Bless,
Dale
It is nice to have a forum to learn from your experience and make my venture a success. They say if you have to go through a mine field, follow someone! Just not to close I guess! Anyway, I am a beginner again as had 4 nucs last Summer which didn't make it through the winter due to moisture issues as I believe I placed them to close to the bottom of a hill from the fungus or whatever the green stuff was that covered the frames, comb and bottom of the inner cover. I joined this forum last year but unfortunately forgot about it so lesson learned. I have 2-5 frame deep nucs on order and will pick them up in a few weeks. My first question for you pros out there is this. I have medium supers for brood and honey for consistency and because of back problems so wanted to keep the weight to around 50 lbs max. The 2 nucs on order are 5 deep frames each. How do I work the deep frames into the mediums? Do I join 2 medium supers together and treat them as a deep? Is it OK to have 5 medium frames and 5 deep frames for the bottom super? HELP!!! I feel stupid.
God Bless,
Dale