1st Gen Flow Hive Frame - 1st Season of Use

Hi there, and welcome to the Flow forum!

I have a few suggestions, some will answer what you asked, the others will address things that you can prevent. :blush:

  1. Try flexing your plastic Flow frames gently. If they don’t give much, the wires are tight enough. If they flex a lot, or even fall apart (heaven forbid!), you need to tighten the wires. Cedar has made a video of how to do that:
    Sagging Flow frames - #5 by skeggley
  2. Consider waxing the Flow frames by painting on melted wax or just rubbing some burr comb from a hive inspection onto the plastic frame faces. That makes them smell like the hive, and the bees will go up and investigate much sooner than if you don’t.
  3. Make sure you use a queen excluder below the Flow super. If not, you will get brood in your honey - yuck. :wink:
  4. Read @busso’s post above.

:blush:

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