Quote Originally Posted by prakel View Post
Although I've been a big advocate of the miniplus hives (and still like them a lot) I reckon that you're going the right way using standard frames for mating nucs but that's another thread!!
Here we go then.
I'm a fan of the mini plus hives for several reasons, primarily because they can be started on a cupful of bees, similarly to apideas and kielers, but then they can be easily reconfigured into viable overwintering units.
I do see the advantages of keeping everything on standard frame size, but robbing production colonies of strength to service the first round of grafts gives me the heebey geebies, perhaps I'd think differently if I didnt pay the mortgage from honey sales.