Sap runs?

[Bbc.396]

I often see people talking about sap runs, I think thay mean that they get sap in bursts? i have used about 10 buckets for fun up until last year, I had 45 taps on vacuum. I never had sap runs. I seem to get about 40 to 50 gallons of sap per day on average until I ran out of wood and pulled my taps. Are sap runs somthing cause by location whare its warmer?

[nysap]

“Sap run” is a term used by folks to define a quantity of sap that was produced “run” then gathered in a day or over the course or several days.

Ex: How’d you make out today?
Had a good run, collected 40gals off 10 trees.

[ecolbeck]

Any time there is sap coming out of the tree it is “running.”

[berkshires]

I often see people talking about sap runs, I think thay mean that they get sap in bursts? i have used about 10 buckets for fun up until last year, I had 45 taps on vacuum. I never had sap runs. I seem to get about 40 to 50 gallons of sap per day on average until I ran out of wood and pulled my taps. Are sap runs somthing cause by location whare its warmer?

Yup. Your description of how the sap runs for you sounds as bizarre to me as my description of it coming in bursts, as you say, does to you. I'll get a gallon per tap one day. A half gallon per tap the next two, and then nothing for four days, all depending on the weather.

GO

[Bbc.396]

So you dont get sap everyday? Is it a location thing? Last year I had sap everyday.

[ecolbeck]

Sap runs are entirely weather dependent. Nights with freezing temperatures and days with above freezing temperatures are required. Lots of info out there on the process and physics of how it works.

[Cjadamec]

So you dont get sap everyday? Is it a location thing? Last year I had sap everyday.

Take my last week for example.

Monday, Tuesday, highs in the 20s lows in the single digits. No sap

Wednesday highs mid 30s lows in the 20s. No sap

Thursday morning starts above freezing and gets in to the 40s. Sap is running. 70 gallons on 60 taps by the time I'm off work in the afternoon.

Friday stays above freezing thru the night and up to 60 in the afternoon. Another 50 gallons by collected and the lines stopped running.

Saturday (yesterday) 17F in the morning makes it to 40 by around 1pm. Sap starts to move in the lines then a cold front hits temps plummeted and everything froze again. No sap. But finished boiling the 120 gallons of sap from previous days.

Today morning temp was 15F. Bright and sunny and temps are forecast to be right around freezing for a high. Gradual warming to over 40 by mid day Monday.

Monday thru Wednesday will stay above freezing. That will be my next "sap run".

I've only been doing this for about 6 years and in that time I've never had the trees give me sap for longer than 5 days in a row.

[Bbc.396]

Your tapped already wow we only tap mid march

[Cjadamec]

Your tapped already wow we only tap mid march

I will be pulling my taps by mid March and start getting my veggie gardens ready to go. Gotta build some raised beds this year.