[Broke-T]

Grafted my first queen cells last Saturday. Used 3 bars with 13 cell cups each for total of 39. Put them in a strong 2 story hive with cloake board between upper and lower boxes. Checked today and all but one drawn out and all but 6 capped.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4460796141_4b42e06214_b.jpg

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4044/4461574576_59875b8051_b.jpg


Plan to do another frame this weekend. Hope this one wasn't beginners luck.

Johnny

 

[swamprat]

x $20 = $760 nice days pay

 

[Beeslave]

x $3.50-They're not mated queens yet

They look nice though. I would be happy to accomplish that. Some seem a little short but I don't raise my own, I buy my cells already made. I wish I had the time and/or patience to do that. Congrats.

 

[Specialkayme]

Nice work! I remember the first time I tried to graft. I didn't have NEARLY the same success. I think I had a total of 20% were drawn out and capped. Didn't really try it again

 

[walking bird]

I'm impressed. The whole queen-growing process is still a mystery to me.

Are you literally just pulling young larva out of cells, sticking them in the Queen cups, and putting the frame back into a regular, working hive?

If that's the case, what prompts them to make queens when they've already got one? Or do you remove her?

Clearly, I don't have a clue, but would love to learn more.

 

[Joseph Clemens]

Broke-T,

Didn't you put these pics in the Photo Gallery forum so the pics could be seen like this?


"Because they are way to large the way they are resize them and post"
Thanks HM46408

 

[Broke-T]

Joseph I normally use photobucket, but for some reason couldn't log on. So I used flicker and this was the only way I could get it to work.

Any flickr users know how to make them show up without linking?

Johnny