Anyone tapping yet?

[TheMapleNews]

I know there are a few of you fall tappers out there. But maybe not this year with the cold weather? Anyone made syrup this fall?

[maple flats]

I'll start the week between Christmas and New Years.

[Walling's Maple Syrup]

Getting close. I'll watch the weather another week and make a decision.
Neil

[buckeye gold]

I was discussing it with my wife this morning, but I am still repairing lines and need to clean the sugar shack. The next few days look like a good flow, but I'm not ready. Man I have learned a new level of hate for squirrels. I bought an 800 foot roll of tubing for repairs and one new short run and It's gone. I did have a lot of blow-down damage. I been working my main woods and I finished it today. Tomorrow I will start on the fall woods and soon as it is done I will clean the shack and tap. I'm thinking that will be Next week sometime. If it wasn't for all the damage I would be cooking.

[DrTimPerkins]

We've tapped some as part of a research project. Will tap a bunch more in early-mid January, and then another set in late-Feb/early-March.

We start tapping for our regular production bush in mid-January.

[upsmapleman]

Last year you ran a story about someone who tapped in mid December. You said you would give a up date at season end. I guess I missed it and wondered about the out come.

[TheMapleNews]

You are not alone. We had many requests for an update. That was Roxbury Mountain Maple. We will get that for the January issue.

[bmbmkr]

My buddy down in Eastern KY tapped a few this week to see if it was running, we've had 10 days of 20/40F -ish weather. He said they were running good and hes tapping 400 next week. I plan on tapping a few silvers today just to check sugar%, they are full canopy "Swamp" trees, hoping they have as much sugar as my skinny, tall timber small, canopy sugars. If so I'll tap a hundred or so of them next year. We are usually finished boiling down here in Appalachia by the time y'all tap up north.