I usally wait 2 to 3 weeks.

Konrad

Give them one more frame of brood with eggs on it from the strong hive just in case and then shut the lid for a month and a half. They will roll a new queen if you disturb them before she has a chance to prove herself.

Thanks for the info! I checked the hive yesterday(Saturday), and found lots of eggs and a fair amount of young brood! The workers also have drawn out more foundation. I feel a whole lot better now!

Last week the inspector and I checked this hive and guess what? The queen and all her new bees were gone! All they left was a small amount of capped brood, about a dozen queen cells, and roughly the same number of workers that I started with. I had put a second deep box on, but they didn't draw it out. They must have felt too crowded in the drawn out bottom box. Now I'm in the same position I was in at the end of June. What a Bummer!!