Omg your a wealth of information! Thank you! I’ll check it out! 
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Martha,
What is the main type or types of foraged honeys down in your region. We have a lot of various wildflowers so often we get a total mix n no one flower. But if we can time it with a hivesuper or flow-frames then we can have nearly pure blackberry. Some (next few days) our Big Leaf Maple will be in full bloom. I’ve not been able to actually n knowingly harvest this early Spring honey 
as our NW bees use it to raise up their Spring broods.
Here’s a couple Big Leaf Maple flowers n a tree.
Cheers n enjoy your evening,
Gerald
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I have the Tennessee pollen and nectar rescourse guide. But forgot to share one of my queens hatched and I got to see my first virgin queen! I’m excited! Pray the mating flight is successful! Whoop! It’s the middle lemon hive in my picture.
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Err which one please?
I think he wants to know why you choose an uncapped queen cell and why you never split with a capped one. 
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Ah.
So that I am assured there is a fat larva floating in royal jelly and so that I know the age of the cell
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Dawn !
“Dung roi !” Corect … im an F- - t but listening learning, screwing-up n listening again ! Lay it on me Dee !
Thankz,
Gerald
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Dee,
Oh wise one 
! Now that is a bit of great n useful info. Glad I asked ! Cám ơn nhiều ! Vn for Thankz a lot …
If I live long enough just maybe I can catch up on a few more helpful Bee 
info I lost/missed/misplaced (my 55 year intermission).
10/4 Good Bee Buddy,
Gerald (Jerry)
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P.S. Dawn … here’s my mite drop I did on 4/10 … looking pretty good so far. Better watch my backdoor. Those critters are fun to deal with !
Cheers 
, 
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Nice job, Jerry! I am about to do some counts too. 
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Here’s the lessons learned from the many queen cell experience. I’m glad I’ve learned how to deal with multiple queen cells and 1 of the many methods of pro active swarm control but I may not be in a great position to have a strong hive as it was prior to the experience. We will see how the final episode turns out with this bee expert. In dealing with the 2 people helping me with my hives learn and deal with swarming I have 2 different results.
First lesson, might be similar to that like “buck fever” people can take advantage of a new bee keeper as they consider their own losses and are addicted to the hobby and know the costs associated with purchased bees and equipment. Was there a learning curve in this experience, yes but It might have been expensive.
Second lesson, some people are very generous in helping you become successful in your bee efforts. Learn the difference.
Third lesson, developed confidence with one type of swarm control will drive confidence in trying other methods of swarm control learned on this forum. Mostly because now I can see how the hive acts with no queen and because the other methods learned on the forum. Next time I get the mother load of queen cells I’m going to do the method of shaking all the bees off the frames and watch them march in a brood box (I forgot the name of the method) and separate the other frames with queens and make nukes and transport them off site to see if the queens hatch and mate successfully leaving 1 or 2 queen cells in the original hive with larva as a back up plan for the bees.
My current situation is thus. I hive off site with the original queen. 2 hives at home 1 queenless but with a queen cell and 1 hive nuke sized with a virgin queen. 5 splits to the mentor. 1 nuke coming which I ordered prior to the whole swarming situation.
There are several possible outcomes at this point. If my hives make it, next year will be a different year. However, my only question now is if the mentors plan falls apart can I put my off site queen back with my queenlless hive by merging the two?
Hello Martha, Merging the two hives back into one is easy when there is just the one queen. Take the top off the hive in the planned location then a few sheets of newspaper over the top of the box then add the box/boxes you have to combine. The pheromones of the queen and the hive will become accepted as the bees eat away the newspaper and there will be no chance of rejection or other issues. The bees themselves will sort out where they want to move stores and as your spring is there I would leave all the boxes as they are for the summer. The queen will move down in the hive and once she is located you can add the QX if you wish above her.
Combining two hives is an easy job when there is just one queen.
Regards
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Cool! It makes a giant candy box queen cage cork thingy! (sorry I can’t think of the name of the thing a ma bob) 
You won’t need a queen cage if that is what a thing a me bob is, by the time they eat away enough paper and first contact is made the queen will be accepted.
Cheers
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I gotcha, the whole hive on top is a giant version of it. Thanks! Now I’m feeling better about my current situation.
What you are making is one ‘super hive’ and it is one of the easiest chores in bee keeping, just make sure the paper covers the box completely…
Cheers
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I think you’re describing the Taranov split.
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Silly! You know tons and you’re doing very very well.
Same here. An accelerated drop with the vaporiser
I am not sure of the correct name, it was just the ‘done thing’, but it is just a split in reverse. Seldom done where there was a queen in each hive but in that case it was a matter of choosing the better, often the younger queen and saying good-bye to the other. I never had a ‘fail’ doing that way of saving a weak hive.
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