ok this is killing me again

[morningstarfarm]

man what a rollercoaster! got 250 gallons sat..ok good...got 70 gallons sun..ok I can live with that..boiled it all sun and got almost 7 gals of light..nice..woke up this morning to 25 deg temps and rose to 60...240 taps and got roughly 20 gals today..what is up with that??? :o

[morningstarfarm]

oh man I just saw the 10 day..only days below freezing at night..tonight and tomorrow..the rest up in the mid 30's for lows...this is not good

[Dill]

I agree and the long range is sketchy at the min.
I didn't boil or even collect last night or tonight.

[tuckermaple]

We could stand another snow storm and some cold weather. Most of our orchard is bare. I'm really worried the trees are going to start to bud out soon. We'll just hang on for the ride I guess.

[morningstarfarm]

I hate to say it but me thinks the party might be over....but god i hope not..

[PerryW]

I'm surprised you got 25 degrees last night in Plaistow. It didn't freeze last night at my sugarbush in Littleton.

[Brian Ledoux]

I wanted to see if I was the only one experiencing the weird behavior with the sap flow. I have one strand of 25 trees that gave me 1.5 gallons of sap today, whereas another strect of 25 trees gave me 8 gallons. It was a great day temp wise, so I thought. Also, the weekend was terible too. I got like 15 gallons of sap off of all 65 taps and that is both sat & sun combined. On friday night, I drove by a bank that has the temp displayed just to see what the temp was reading and it was 29 degrees at around 10pm. Then Saturday all day it was extremely warm. Makes no sense from what I was expecting. Anyone know why it's not running?

[HobbitMannor]

I was thinking that we were alone with the funny sap flow. We got enough to boil on Saturday but on Sunday the way it was coming in it would not keep up with the evaporator-we always know when the wind blows its not gonna be a good day for sap-at least that is what we think is going on. I'm sure yesterday was not good either.
Hey Tuckermaple good to see you on here!

[morningstarfarm]

Oh this just keeps getting better and better...6.5 gallons of sap today...I dont even want to calculate how much per tap that is :mad: :cry: :o

[red maples]

don't worry the weathermen aren't always right !!!!!

Should be a good freeze tonight! not over yet...its already 30 degrees here. should get down to 25-27 tonight.

[morningstarfarm]

god i hope so....

[Dill]

I got a bit of sap down in Lee, but I think I'm going to dump it. It smells like mersh sap.

[red maples]

yeah same here I about 50 gallons of cloudy junk no sugar...doesn't smell or taste bad but it is junk!!!!

[red maples]

see that on the weather channel they said t was gonna be 30 or 31 last night and it hit 21 at my housewhen I got up this morning at 4:30am. it was 27 at 11:00 when I went to bed. but hope for a good run bad maple weather predicted for the rest of the week.

changed my mind gonna boil that 50 gallons out. went and checked it again and its just cloudy tastes and smells good.


Oh this just keeps getting better and better...6.5 gallons of sap today...I dont even want to calculate how much per tap that is :mad: :cry: :o

[morningstarfarm]

looks to be a little better today..buckets on my big maples are half full..tubing runs haven't done much though....

[tuckermaple]

got about 80 gal of sap today. down to 15* last nite. Hoping for a good run tomorrow. it just isn't looking good I have hardly any snow on the ground and appears that my red maples are starting to bud out. hurry up and wait i guess!

[evansglenn]

Kinda sounds like the same boat I'm in. I had a good run the day I tapped, but since then, there ain't been much. I hope things pick up here in Northern WI as well. I got a decent run the first on my 300, but since then there hasn't been much. I hope things get better here to...

[morningstarfarm]

well, it looks like we may have gotten a small reprieve..got 80 gals today. Funny though, some trees ran beautifully, and the tree next to it was dry..go figure. The long term forcast now looks much brighter..weekend should be a loss, but tues-weds look good next week for a jump start..hopefully:rolleyes: