Honey supers - adding on and queen excluder
Hello, after starting two hives last spring and both making it through the winter, I have added on medium box honey super on each hive (the brood box is three mediums). One hive has an excluder and is doing well. The second hive's bees were not going through the excluder so I took that one off and now those bees have been building out the honey super frames for a few weeks. A few questions:
1) How long should I wait before adding a second honey super box?
2) Should I put the excluder back not he second hive since the bees are now building out the super?
3) Will a put the supers back on after harvesting honey?
4) Both hives are doing well. Is there a need to go into the hives when they are doing well? I feel like I avoid disturbing them if everything is going well. Mistake?
Thanks!,
Eric