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So I'd been watching a lot of queen grafting educational videos on Youtube.
Very interesting stuff. Here's my question and a bit of explanation on why I asked;
When the beekeeper puts in a queen bar with like 10 to 20 queen cell cups (already grafted in the cups) on the organized hive bar in the queen starter colony to grow, at this point lets say they are sugar water feeding and its a dearth... (Before the cups are transferred out)
Will the quality of the queens reared in this situation be less than if they'd done the same thing when it wasn't a dearth, and were feeding normal honey and pollen compared to sugar water?
What do you think on this? I'm pretty sure you will say there's a difference, but I'm curious as to how much a difference you've seen and to get into the details of it.
The answer of this has to do with picking the right times of year to do grafting.
(But also I don't see many people that talk about do I have enough drones growing also at the same time I'm making all these queens? Most grafting videos don't talk about the drone population at the time they are grafting. So this leaves me wondering a bit about that too.)
Thanks.
Very interesting stuff. Here's my question and a bit of explanation on why I asked;
When the beekeeper puts in a queen bar with like 10 to 20 queen cell cups (already grafted in the cups) on the organized hive bar in the queen starter colony to grow, at this point lets say they are sugar water feeding and its a dearth... (Before the cups are transferred out)
Will the quality of the queens reared in this situation be less than if they'd done the same thing when it wasn't a dearth, and were feeding normal honey and pollen compared to sugar water?
What do you think on this? I'm pretty sure you will say there's a difference, but I'm curious as to how much a difference you've seen and to get into the details of it.
The answer of this has to do with picking the right times of year to do grafting.
(But also I don't see many people that talk about do I have enough drones growing also at the same time I'm making all these queens? Most grafting videos don't talk about the drone population at the time they are grafting. So this leaves me wondering a bit about that too.)
Thanks.