I've decided to also try my hand at some grafting and creating some 'natural' splits. I need to do this for several reasons - Life cycle learning of the bees - for my own continued search of knowledge about these special creatures, propagation of the species, before it's not too late in the year, and if I can - why not ??
Here's some listings or other thoughts of why I need to start now (mid june timeframe) -
- The bees have time to 'rebound' and get started for winter
- If I have to feed (I will I know, as there's no "flow" going on now) then the bees will/should have enough time to get settled in good for the winter.
- If I'm not successful in my 'trials' then I'll have time to combine them back together and hopefully not loose too many.
- "normally" this type of thing is done in the early spring or whenever there's a good 'flow' going on - but you gotta start some time and this might be quite a good experience for me.
- I should have enough time for these bees to estabish themselvess and "IF" I have to overwinter some nucs this year I'll know how to do it.
- I've gotten the notion that I'd like to create several nucs and possibly sell them every year, but most importantly that I have enough 'stock' to be able to perpectuate the good stock I believe I currently have, so that if I have a 'bad' year - I don't end up loosing this stock - or have a 'catostrophic' loss to my apiary.
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