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BBAMS
01-30-2021, 11:24 AM
Tapping my 3 yard trees today. About a week later than last year. Hope everyone has a great and safe season.

dogpatch
01-30-2021, 01:55 PM
I'm about 200 miles north of you. Middle of February is my normal tapping date. I have added about 40 taps this year to get around 200 total.Best of luck.

MapleMounder
02-27-2021, 09:44 AM
We are north of dogpatch about 30 miles. We tapped about 75 late Thursday, most were running. We did another 50 yesterday, which all but a few were running. Heading out to do the last 50 here in a few minutes. I think its going to be a short but busy season, like it was last year. Good luck to you all!

BBAMS
02-27-2021, 05:09 PM
I have collected about 15 gallons of sap so doing my first boil.

BBAMS
03-01-2021, 11:40 AM
Got 3 Pints of finished syrup. Hope the weather cooperates so I can make some more...

Jamieson
03-01-2021, 12:47 PM
So far no buds on the lone sugar maple in my back yard. Getting about 2 gal per day now. In Batavia.

dogpatch
03-01-2021, 02:55 PM
Finally enough snow melted so I could finish tapping, up to about 400 gal sap so far. Not much today but weather looks good for the rest of the week.

BBAMS
03-07-2021, 08:52 AM
Second boil of the season 3 more pints of syrup. Makes a total of 6 pints for the year. Silver maple buds are swelling, temps are supposed to be in the 60's the next several days.

Reveredman
03-19-2021, 02:27 PM
Starting my last build of the season. Only got 7 gallons off 6taps/3trees for the week. Started strong though, 60 gallons ytd. Last hurrah!

dogpatch
03-19-2021, 05:12 PM
Things are starting to wind down, sugar has dropped to 1.5%. Still getting decent flow on the tubing , been an ok year so far.

mol1jb
04-21-2021, 01:24 PM
We had a good but short season. Collected record gallons of sap but the sugar content was lowest I have had since I have been keeping track (since 2019). Tapped 215 the first week of March. Pulled taps at the end of the 3rd week of March. Temperatures were warmer than average which made for lots of cloudy sap. It all processed fine but slowed the RO way down. Ended up with 78 gallons syrup.