Anyone tapping yet?

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.