I went through one hive today (1deep,2mediums). The bottom deep was packed with bees and worker brood. The top 2 mediums had 5 frames of drone brood in both boxes total 10 frames of drone brood(not as big pattern as worker brood).
All boxes have packed workers, I saw 2 drones walking around, could not find queen.
I plan on putting excluders in between the boxes tommorow and finding her in 4-5 days.
After I find her I was going to put her in a timing box (still with the colony) just excluded so I can graft the right cells.
But, if I graft 11 days after seeing these drone cells, is that too soon?