I had been running single deeps and went back to doubles this year. I don’t like them. When should I break them down to singles again? After I harvest in a couple of weeks and home they request,or wait until spring and buy queens.?
You have two options depending on your location and how much time you have before winter. 1 - Split your hive now into two singles, just make sure you have ample time to get the hive ready for winter. Depending on your location, you may have to buy a queen, rather than raising one, to allow enough time for her to start laying and the hive to build up for winter. 2 - Overwinter in the double deeps and make splits in the spring.
That is not a true Demaree split. A Demaree split requires all but one frame of brood to be moved up above the honey supers. The frames moved up are replaced with either drawn comb if you have it or foundation or both to fill the brood box.
2:52 That's not a super! You added that box UNDER the queen excluder therefore it is a part of the brood chamber. Your muddling of terminology confuses beekeepers, especially those new to the field.
I thought he should mention to be aware of queen cells especially if you set that box up any higher after excluding...because of brood over excluder now
Technically, it is a 6 5/8" medium super. He explains that it will function as part of the brood chamber. Some beekeepers choose to use only medium supers on their hives. Three medium supers provide the equivalent bee space as two deep hive bodies, which are commonly referred to as brood boxes.
I do this technique and one thing you forgot to mention; you will have drones emerging in the top medium super and you have to crack the top to let the drones out cuz they are trapped above the excluder.
