I did a walk away split last month. I did a lot of reading and watched a couple videos including one by my local bee association.
I split the hive, made sure the queen stayed in the original hive, pulled a couple frames of eggs, larva a brood and put them in a new box. A week later I checked and had 4 sealed queen cells. A week or so later I checked, and the queen cells had hatched out. I thought I was successful. But four weeks later, and still there was no new eggs, larva, or queen to be found.
I can confirm the original colony is booming.
So what went wrong?
I split the hive, made sure the queen stayed in the original hive, pulled a couple frames of eggs, larva a brood and put them in a new box. A week later I checked and had 4 sealed queen cells. A week or so later I checked, and the queen cells had hatched out. I thought I was successful. But four weeks later, and still there was no new eggs, larva, or queen to be found.
I can confirm the original colony is booming.
So what went wrong?