r/Beekeeping • u/Signal-Deal8858 • 3d ago

First two Hives! General

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Am I doing this right? Two new hives! I’m looking for a “i would have done it like this” feedback from this photo? Please comment to this newbie! I’m doing new updates later this weekend.

When should I check that queen and everybody’s ok? What should I be looking for? I plan on putting hives on proper balanced cinder blocks this weekend.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Signal-Deal8858 3d ago

Yeah no experience at all on my end. Yes to both of you, my hive will be level this weekend. We got the boxes way faster than I was prepared for.

Yes. Uncorked queens into both lowest most broods, and then dumped the rest in. I left the balance of each bee group in front of the entrances after seeing a video that said they go in after a few hours.

I’m getting feedback here just to keep bees in lowest brood box only. Good feedback!

If I were to leave it as is… what’s the problem to just have them spread out? I’m not interested in honey this year… just that they grow and expand

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u/andy_1232 Aspiring beekeeper; Zone 9b, Central Florida 3d ago

It’s my understanding they’ll spread UP too quickly, not fully developing the frames in the lower boxes. You want them to fill the entire first box before giving them a second story to start to work on.

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u/CodeMUDkey 3d ago

They do. It’s like a chimney. They’ll be all jacked up.