DOUBLE Stacking NUCS of Bees | Why would I do that? 

thank you for your quick response Bruce.

Nice looking hives Bruce. Enjoy your content. Thanks for sharing.

Great video as usual Bruce, keep up the good work :-D

Bruce, I did the same thing with 5 frame boxes on Tuesday. Definitely an easy way to make splits. On those deep frames of honey in the brood boxes about the middle of May I rob a few of them where I’ve put new frames and haven’t treated for mites yet. That is just to get some fresh honey for immediate family and a couple of friends. You channel has really grown this spring and I think you are getting better and better with your videos. I wish that you were located closer. Thanks for the video.

I double stack my nucs too Bruce. I love doing that. Thanks for sharing longsnapper. Roll Tide!

Looking good Bruce.

Yes sir my friend, you will have to keep boxes on those bees to stay ahead of them for sure. And I don't think I'm going to get any honey every year as well LOL. But the girls always seem to pull through. Thanks for sharing.

Bees are looking good.

Perfect 🙂🙂

Nice one Bruce

It looks like you will have honey 🍯 bees are looking good

I like to do those kinds of lids also with a tiny space there, so I can put in patties and sugar when its dearth. Thanks very much for this.

Looks like honey supers very soon or they will be in the trees. It is amazing what bees will do when you are in a sustained flow. Thanks for the video Bruce. Hope you had a good weekend.

I Like your knowledge in beekeeping

I just started using nucs for honey production and splits. Very underrated system.

I had a nuc last year that went 4 high ...survived a Montana winter and is now a double deep.

I've had decent luck overwintering 5 frame nucs triple stacked in the great white north. Multi-stacked nucs are comb drawing machines!

Hello my friend. Next Saturday busy day, Splits in the morning checking to see how many of the 28 came back mated and install them in 10 frames from the 6 framers. Put the original hives of mine in the 24 Horizontals and that evening drop cells on the 26 splits we will make. The Horizonatal i over winter exploded. Pulled a couple honey frames and put in frames for them to draw as it had almost all 30 frames full with brood and honey. They are looking good my friend. Your Girls are rocking the flow. The one Nuke i looked at today of the 28 came back mated and is Black just like the Queen from mother hive. I cant wait till saturday. Take care. Note as for me feeling better. still have some pain but a sting here and there helps that

I was thinking using nucs to put my swarms in and then stacking extra boxes for them to work and draw out comb for other hives.

North of you in Randolph County. Our privet is not blooming yet but Blackberry is going wild. Had a hive draw out a deep foundation and half filled out with honey in about two weeks.

There is no way I can work my bees without a suit. Wish I could work them like you do in your videos

NC is starting to get a flow. 2 hives (I only have 2) have capped honey in their brood area. my girls are reluctant to build comb

Hay love your videos and information. Can you please tell me what is a good book to buy to show how to billed your own beekeeping stuff like hives & nuc boxes. Keep it up and going

Hope the flow hits here in the next few weeks. Thanks Bruce!

Yep the like to go vertical

I really do like that top with an entrance you got there ! It must help bee to keep their hive in the right shape ... Asked the reason why they did that kind a double instead putting these in a box ... Obvious point stand : to split it . Making it double in March , we find out the way to make them go in the upper stage was syrup in the nourishing upper level ... We got a few cold days just a week after we double it up ... Was quite strong n early in March , quite starving by the end of April ... I would have "played" it safely putting them in a box aiming to put so called "super" or honey only stages later instead aiming to split them ... I guess I already think about summer n next spring while "coach" don't yet ... Thanks for the explanation . Dare, care, ride safe, clean, have fun . From France, with .

Thanks for the video. I love working with nucs.

I'm stressing as well. I made some splits and harvested queen cells and Either I'm super impatient or I made mistakes because a few of my strong hives now appear to be queenless with zero brood.

I double stack and even thriple stack mine in Jamaica too

Looks like a good flow. What is blooming in your area Bruce

Heck...I've had some nucs 5 boxes high!

Bees are jamming now. Easy to get behind really fast strong flow hits. We should have strong dandelion flow this week. Cold front passing finally

Looking good Bruce oh, we just got some 80 degree weather here and the bees are on fire LOL I have seen some checking out a couple of my swarm traps. I tried to use some butyric acid to remove a colony yesterday in a tree. I did not get the Queen but I did scalp a bunch of bees. My friend is going to give me a couple frames of brood and try to make a queen. I moved my ladder to another tree today and vacuumed up a few more bees. First time I have use it and it works awesome. So we are going to take them a distance and try to combine from three different hives. Hopefully it will all work out

I started using just nucs on over half of mine. Some have multiple stacked

You are going to have plenty of honey this year buddy.

Hi Bruce, nice looking colonies. I keep 10 frame deep single brood chambers, my second year and I want to split to grow and hopefully get a honey crop. Should I wait until I have some swarm cells to make a split with? I don't want to knock them back to much. I was just thinking 2 or 3 frames with everything in a nuc and let them try making their own queen? They are getting big so I have to do something that I haven't done yet? Here in northwest NJ they just started bringing in a bit of nectar. Thanks Bruce

They can actually make new comb faster than they can clean up that old moldy comb, that just sets them back, good luck though!

Can you make a video on how you make those nucs? Good luck this year!

Hey Bruce can you send me the measurements to your new nuc boxes. I'm going to build some.

This way will the top be a super and the queen lay eggs in it?

Do you pick up the comb you scrape off? Just curious.

Love to get your hive specs...

I've heard the bees white wax the top of frames telling you they have run out of space, you scraped off a pound of honey. You may be leaving honey in the field because they are stuffed full.

When you take the split and the queen is in the bottom will the bees in the top frame make their own queen ?

Bruce it looks like that there is a commercial beekeeper in south central Indiana that uses only 5 frames nucs for his apiary.

Hi Bruce. Um why don't you save your extra bur comb.every one else keeps it and keeps the bee yard clean .

You don't put a mat on top of your NUC frames? ....and i keep the comb scraped off and use for wax rendering later on. Best to collect rather than discard.

Any bees dont bite you? And nice vídeo

can you use nucs to produce honey? instead of the big heavy ten frame super

If you have brood in both boxes, why does it matter where the queen is when you make the split?

The reason I do this.. 5:27

Have you tried 5 Frame hives for honey Production?

So Bruce I have a swarm box that yesterday had 50 bee’s flying around it.then today almost no bee’s but there are still a few bee’s going in and out.. any ideas on if they are possibly going to come or what’s your thoughts have you seen this b4?

My favorite way to build up hives is stacking nucs. They seem to draw frames faster. I usually go 3 high then transfer to my 10 frame equipment.

I would not recommend you to throw that bure comb wax/honey on the ground. It will attract some hive beetles, ants, and some other predators. Nice colonies and hives you have.