I’ve just put my first Flow Super on my hive about 2 weeks ago This year is starting out to be amazing after my colony came out of the winter strong and buzzing !
My current setup is Deep Brood box, Queen excluder, Deep Super (currently full and 1/3 capped, i keep this for overwintering), Flow Super. After the 2nd waxing attempt the bees are finally drawing out the Flow frames.
Last weekend I found the brood box PACKED full of bees and about to explode with new bees. Also pinched off the beginnings of what looked like 8 queen cups!
My question is; should I add another Flow super?, split the colony? , move the queen excluder up so its between the Winter Super and Flow Super?, let them bee?
Do a split. It doesn’t matter how much room you give them, they will still want to swarm.
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Any contents in those cups? I would only split if they were queen cells, with lots of royal jelly and a larva in them. If they have contents, there is no point in pinching them off - the bees will just make more. If there are no contents, you can just leave them to fill the Flow super 
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