Why would you want to make up two nucs after your hive has created queen cells? One nuc is a backup for the brood box. A brood box full of bees with one queen cell left in it will likely as not produce a new laying queen. But what if that process fails? You are five weeks down the line and have a box of bees with no brood and no queen - so what then ? If you have a brood box with a laying queen in it you unite that with your desperate box of bees - much quicker results than adding a frame of brood. Two nucs at current prices are worth around £300 to £400. So given that your box with it's one queen cell does produce a queen and both your nuc boxes do too you have made up for the loss of honey in that box.
Agreed and hopefully that don’t fail. If it was to fail then I would buy a queen and to be fair I was one touch of a button on Sunday of buying a mated queen to help the situation but it wasn’t turning up until Thursday and the weather Thursday and over the weekend isn’t great and didn’t wonna chance not being able to put her in the hive..🤦♂️, good old British summer time..
I think you passed on a great opportunity. You could have done a week nuc split for insurance or, better yet, split over a double screen board. The goal is to increase your chances of getting a great queen back. You also could have given those cells to other beekeepers who have the resources to make splits. You threw away better cells than someone can graft.
Yeah but like I say I’m very new to this so there will always be lots of different advice from a lot of different people unfortunately and very grateful to here everyone’s different opinions and to be fair 1 if the weather wasn’t forecast to be crap on the Thursday (yesterday) I would had bought a queen and introduced her and probably done one split with queen cell in a nuclear, but unfortunately on last Sunday when I was going to buy the queen I couldn’t get her until the Thursday (yesterday) and yes the weather was very wet when I got home from work so it wouldn’t had worked out and that was the reason behind why iv done it this way and hopefully it all goes to plan… If it don’t work out then I will 100% buy a queen and introduce her ..At the same time yesterday I had to rush my dog to the vets due to a spine injury so head was all over the place so somtimes things happen for a reason but like I say I’m learning and all the different advice I get I will store in my head for another time coz I’m pretty sure there will be lol…👍
