I hope it works for you. I've worked out a new setup for wet grafting using the same needle. If it works as intended I'll put out a new video this spring.
Dang! I've been grafting for longer then I can remember (before COVID and even before varroa if you still remember that)! I lost my original grafting tool and can't find a replacement, The Chinese grafting tools are OK if you want to graft older larva. My older tool allowed me to graft the "invisible" larva. Having been in the health care field, it immediately clicked on what you were going to say. The sharper the instrument you use, the easier it is to remove the youngest larva, therefore the better the queen, if you follow through with quality controls. The best queens come from the the youngest larva you can graft, and then placing them into the best cell raising colonies you can provide. How did you come up with the hypodermic needle? Again I've had many years in the health care field using these things and never thought of the sharpness as a grafting tool!
Professor Ellis was talking about all the different tools he'd seen people graft with and he said sewing needle. It just occurred to me that a hypodermic needle was just a bend away from being a grafting tool.
Wow great video 👍 ill try it out this year
I hope it works for you. I've worked out a new setup for wet grafting using the same needle. If it works as intended I'll put out a new video this spring.
I tried this tool "customized" per your video and using it was by far the best way I've tried.
Thanks
Dang! I've been grafting for longer then I can remember (before COVID and even before varroa if you still remember that)! I lost my original grafting tool and can't find a replacement, The Chinese grafting tools are OK if you want to graft older larva. My older tool allowed me to graft the "invisible" larva.
Having been in the health care field, it immediately clicked on what you were going to say. The sharper the instrument you use, the easier it is to remove the youngest larva, therefore the better the queen, if you follow through with quality controls. The best queens come from the the youngest larva you can graft, and then placing them into the best cell raising colonies you can provide.
How did you come up with the hypodermic needle? Again I've had many years in the health care field using these things and never thought of the sharpness as a grafting tool!
Professor Ellis was talking about all the different tools he'd seen people graft with and he said sewing needle. It just occurred to me that a hypodermic needle was just a bend away from being a grafting tool.
Love it brother that's what it's all about, passing on the knowledge. Thanks
i am a young bee farmer thanke for the tips
Great video, Thanks for the tip!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing.