BBKA Forum

So I extracted honey from 4 supers at the weekend and about a quarter of it wasn’t ripe. This was from the ‘shake the uncapped stuff and if it drops out it’s not ripe’ test.

My hives are still busy and I’d like to put the unripe stuff back on to get them to finish the job. I normally put new supers in the top of my hives but just wondered where to put a super of unripe honey?? On the top of the partially filled top super, in the middle or at the bottom above the brood box??

I have found that it does not really matter where you put any unripe super frames..if you have enough bees in the hive and you get a good flow happening the supers will be capped eventually...if i was in your situation (not sure how many hives you have) i would go through my colonies and remove any capped ripe super frames in the supers and replace them with unripe frames..it is a bit of a juggling act but it works for me..

I agree with Steve