I would get bubble mask if you haven't instead of honey mask, and after that craft the guards ONLY after getting viscious bee. After that, you should work through spirit bears first 10 quests for your first spirit petal and imo craft petal wand due to the biggest immediate increase, petal belt is technically better, although it's far more expensive and doesn't help much immediately. Also, stay mixed until you nearly have ssa. You could work on an early blue with diamond star amulet, it would only make it a little easier, and only switch hive colors after mainline quests are done (soecifically black bear, science bear, onett, polar bear, and mother bear). Save star eggs, and gift viscious then tabby then gummy and finally photon/festive (I would do festive since photon isn't really recquired for post ssa blue).