New skep with old queen, honey and pollination woes.

[Shadeen]

I decided to make a higher purity skep, so I took out the queen from an old skep, and put her in the new one with 2 new drones about 2 days ago. There are no bees or honey being produced, however.

I also have an apple tree that was planted as soon as the patch that introduced them was up (I bought the apple immediately and planted it in a pot). This is the second in-game Spring for it, still no apples, and the branch purity value is still at 0.0%.

I have an almost full (-3) butterfly cage and 2 skeps (one of them being the 'dead' skep with the old queen I talked about before) around it. Any ideas?

[Yes]

You need more than 2 drones in a skep. Try 8 to be sure

[Shadeen]

Oh, thanks! I thought 1 queen and 2 drones were the minimum!

[alloin]

not 100% sure, but i think 4 is the minimum

[RonPaulFTW]

I've gotten workers with 5. I know for sure 3 doesn't work.

Fruit tree blossoming is fickle. They don't all bloom in a given season. In fact more don't than do.

[Lusewing]

I got 5 out of my seven trees bloom and fruit, seems very random. As for produce Ive had 6,7,8,10,4

[Shadeen]

Thanks everyone Time to find some more drones!