How's your sugar content?

[bowhunter]

Have you guys in the Buckeye State noticed higher sugar content this year....I was just wondering? Mine has consistently been 3% or higher when it finally runs. I didn't have a refractometer last year, but did calculate the average based on syrup production and it was about 2.5% for the year. In mid February this year it was around 2.5%, but these last two runs have been high.

[Tor Haxson]

This is my first year with the ability to measure sugar content in sap.

My trees are all over the place. I have 3 lines collecting into tanks. The first one is roadside sugar maples and it has run between 2 and 3. The next one is 5 sugar maples with 2 reds, It has consistently run a 1 %.

Another line is all reds it has run at 1%

I have reds and sugars on buckets. The sugars run 2% or above, and the reds on buckets also run 2% or so.

The majority of my sap ends up being 1% so far this year. :-(

I start boiling the sweet stuff and if I do not have time for the low sugar sap, I dump it.

Need a bigger pan or an RO or something to make that worthwhile.

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Tor