Hey Missouri- give us your update on sap flow

[unclejohn]

Ive heard that some folks tapped trees on Christmas 2020 weekend. How did that work? If you didnt, do you think that is too early? John

[oldcabin]

I did not. I plan on tapping Wed to see.

[oldcabin]

I was able to tap 25 trees today. A few were running pretty good, the rest were not. Last season I tapped on 01/01 when I saw others here were posting they were tapping. Nothing was running for me until several days later.

This year I am about 6 days early compared to 2020 season.

[RiverSap]

No trees tapped here. I plan on setting up my driveway operation next week. I have all of my trail building and maintenance finished. I purchased a pump, 350 feet of 1/2 tubing, portable gas generator, and a 65 gallon container. I plan on seeing if I can pump the sap up the 100' rise of the Missouri river bluffs. Tree tapping is a few weeks off for me.

[skinny78]

Wow, that is a lot of head pressure for a pump. I have a similar location that would be nice to be able to pump sap up a steep hill however I have not found an inexpensive pump for this purpose. What pump are you planning to use?

[oldcabin]

Collected 20 gallons of sap this morning. Going to tap some more trees. Boilling now :) not a lot, but happy to be in the woods and boiling too.

[Maple_Creek]

Put out 7 taps on 1/5. Collected a couple gallons already and will check them again tomorrow. Weather looks good for sap to run the next couple of weeks. Good luck to everyone.

[oldcabin]

I was able to finish 1/2 gallon of light colored syrup from the 20 collected.21732

[unclejohn]

I put out 215 sap sacks in the grove over the weekend. Not much mud, so it wasnt terribly exhausting. Yesterday the trees were flowing well and I expect the same today and tomorrow. Gonna be a big collect tomorrow and will likely boil on Thurs/Fri.

[Goggleeye]

Been too busy in the woods cleaning up the local tree rat attempts at starting a confetti factory using my tubing as raw product. Ready to go now. 600+ taps out ready for the warm up. Wish I’d have caught the last warmup but life situations didn’t allow.

[oldcabin]

For this weekend 72 gallons sap collected. Finished with 156 oz after filtering (1.2 gallons). 60:1 this week. Not sure how all the rain and snow this week affected the sugar content. Last week was exactly 40:1

[oldcabin]

Anyone else out there having any luck?

Sap was down this week. Weather was good, had some rain. 43 gal collected. 96 oz syrup after filtering. 21815

[skinny78]

220 gallons collected last week. Just finished 2 new lines this weekend bringing our system up to 152 taps on 3/16 tubing to one tank. We are ready for it but it looks like the weather is going to hold us up till late next week.

[Goggleeye]

Despite some good temperature swings, sap flow has been pretty dismal. Slow, weeping runs, hardly getting enough permeate to rinse the membranes. I really need a vacuum system, but until I have time to maintain it for leaks, that is on the backburner. Well, for that and other reasons, but we're not supposed to get political here. We finished up bottling gallon number 30 or so this evening. First 15 gallons bottled was very light, but it went dark in a hurry. Have another 10 on the evaporator. Hopefully February brings some better sap runs.

[oldcabin]

Collected 65 gallons today. Hope to finish it later in the week. Seems that most trees did not produce very much. A few have not done hardly any the last 2 weeks. Some great. Overall, I'm happy I put out some additional taps this year! Very wet day, very muddy trails. Hope everyone is doing well.

[Goggleeye]

Had pretty good sap flow last Saturday before this cold spell hit. Sap has been running around one and a half percent. Up to about 85 gallons so far. Nice to have a break to catch up on sleep. Looking forward to a sap tsunami coming out of this cold spell.

[oldcabin]

Before the 2 week freeze, I collected 127 gallons. Huge increase, I guess the stars aligned. I let it freeze, couldn't boil it. This weekend after the freeze I got another 48 gallons out of the woods and boiled everything. Took 3 days of boiling. Ended up with 3.1 gallons of finished syrup. My bees were out too.

[oldcabin]

I collected enough sap on 02/28 to make about a gallon of syrup. I have pulled all my taps and stared to clean up all the stuff. I will need to do so some repairs to my evaporator. There were not many people posting this year. I hope everyone is healthy. Hope to see you here next season.

[skinny78]

We are calling it quits also, time to start the clean up. I will post our finial production when we finish bottling this weekend.

[Goggleeye]

Still at it today. Got about 1/2 gallon per tap both Saturday and Sunday. Will have about 100 gal of concentrate to run through the evaporator tomorrow. Should finish the season with just at 1 quart per tap.

[skinny78]

Finished with 36 1/2 gallons from 150 taps. Right at a quart per tap, not bad for the crazy season here this year.