Nicot Queen Rearing Transferring Cell Cups to Cell Bar

We transferred 60 Nicot Queen Rearing cell cups onto two frames and installed them into two separate colonies. One colony was very strong and had been prepared approximately 10 days prior to be a cell build. The other is a smaller colony we setup that day for any extra cells we might have. We ended up with more than expected so each colony received 30 cells. We had enough to probably do another 15 to 20 cells if we would have been prepared with another cell builder.

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[richzztop]

Thanks for sharing your progress. You are a great teacher.

[charlesthomas]

suggestion, My friend uses the Nicot system, you will want to feed sugar water and a mix of pollen substitute and honey ( make a Paste) to your Cell starter/ finisher hive, they will need ten times the amount of food to raise the queen cells.

[rendalemeyer]

love how you pick the cups from the cage!

[mishagray]

Love the pink and boxes and great video!

[BlaineNay]

I tried the Nicot system last year (2019). When I went back to harvest my cell cups and release my best queen, I found the queen entirely gone, cell cups empty,  and the hive full of emergency queen cells. I got new queens, alright, but I didn't need to spend a bunch of money on the Nicot kit.

[jorgefagundes]

Hi friend, very good video! I have a question, does the hive that receives the princesses have to be orphaned?

[baddestbees]

Just got mine, cell cups lil sloppy, u have any trouble with that?My cell bar feels good and snug, knock off Nicot, few things I noticed lil cheap but I usually graft and thought I'd check it out before I spent a lot of money..just found ur channel and subbed

[PhillipHall]

I found you channel today and subscribed, Can I ask, how ling do you leave the queen in the cage before you remove the cage and retrieve the larva? Thanks, Phillip Hall

[FishinMoney-Darren]

Looks like you are about to get busy as soon as those queens get mated.

[MegaDavyk]

I am a bit surprised you did this in full sun without protecting the cell cups.

[stevejackson]

If the queen was captive in the NICOT box how did you have capped brood on the comb on each side of the NICOT box?

[fishmut]

Only criticism I got on this video is get yourself a decent cameraman or person that knows how to use one, footage is all over the place .

[josipp]

Hi..I have some questions...where are you put cells Witherspoon eggs, in new hive with Queen or without Queen?how old are bees on hive where you put cells Witherspoon eggs???tnx

[orangeaquatics]

Where ya get a queen cell frame with so many caps? ...most I see are 15...but looks like ya have double that.

Thanks

[yvonneturner]

Do you leave the cells in the hive to get Royal jelly before you remove them on to the nurse frame

[pspuria]

i have a question, the black cell bases on the frame how did you mount those to the frame, why did u only do 2 rows why didnt you have a 3rd row? i have the nicot system (or similar) as well and preparing to do queen rearing in 2018.

[Aiantas]

Everything its ok, BUT u should do it at the shadow because the sun, specially so much time can harm the larvae.
Kind regrets

[tenzackyogi]

Faq: how do split bees population? Is it box by box or comb by comb?

[Commissarius]

So in times when you're not using it do you leave the nicot frame in the hive as it has wax with brood already surrounding it?

[czbg]

hi guys...when you take larvae from Nicot on a new frame, do you put a new frame with larvae in a hive with or without queen?