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This year I'll be starting my regression to small cell. I had bees with DWV showing up last fall, so would like to get brood cells regressing happening soon. OTOH, I'd hate to set the hive back (productionwise) by putting 11 frames of SC foundation for them to draw instead of storing honey. I'll be using OA vaporization in addition to whatever else I do.
Could a nuc, heavily fed (all summer if need be), be used to produce frames of drawn regressions of comb to feed into the hive? Kind of a production facility, putting a starter strip frame in the center as a finished one is taken out from the side?
Or should I just bite the bullet and sacrifice the honey for wax and regress aggressively on the main hive (funny phrase)? Or, I guess, both?
Could a nuc, heavily fed (all summer if need be), be used to produce frames of drawn regressions of comb to feed into the hive? Kind of a production facility, putting a starter strip frame in the center as a finished one is taken out from the side?
Or should I just bite the bullet and sacrifice the honey for wax and regress aggressively on the main hive (funny phrase)? Or, I guess, both?