I was putting in drops yesterday late afternoon. Nothing was running. We could use some sunshine with this 30 ish degree temps! I agree the forecast changes every 24 hours!
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I was putting in drops yesterday late afternoon. Nothing was running. We could use some sunshine with this 30 ish degree temps! I agree the forecast changes every 24 hours!
Nothing but frozen buckets here in Cleveland. Would love a few more good runs. Thoughts on this being a shorter season?
Today will be another disappointing day since the weather changed again.
same here . nothing running.
Either Mother nature or the weather forecasters- whichever you want to blame- has duped us this year. 95% of us are all tapped in since last weekend.
we will be ok though.... here's that old study we've all read before .... http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc/tapping.pdf
im guessing a short season too ...
Staying positive. Just because its still cold on the last week of Feb doesnt mean we are in for a short season. Yeah Im going with that story.
i agree , i am just going with my gut, thats all .
think about it... aside from last year , most of my taps were put in within 7 days of march 1st ... so we are on somewhat of a normal schedule for the year.... just a lot of bluffing going on . :rolleyes: . thats ok , gives me more time to work on things. . . like getting a deicer to thaw the 150 gallon iceberg in my poly tank !
2010, 2011 I tapped Late in February and didnt pull taps until April. Last year really through us off. You never know what might happen. But at least were all ready! I finished my 100 extra drops today, so I think that puts me at 460-480? I don't know I lost track somehow.
well, I spent the day putting up a couple short mains for 2 sap ladders. going to finally come close to finishing that woods this year with all the extra time we are getting. tomorrow i hope to get the branch lines up on half of it. should be close to 75 more taps on the vac. also have 200+ buckets so far this year should put my tap count to 800 and something, (I better get christopherh to count them for me:lol:!!) just kidding. I have my eyes on 1000 silvermaples across the street for next year tested the sap last year it was anyware from 1.5-2.5%
Ha! Tom, I'll have plenty of time to do an official recount! I didn't realize we had that many silver maples here. How big are they?
No silvers growing wild around me. There are several yard trees though. I take that back there are some growing "wild" in my pasture. Seedlings from my yard trees.
Think Im going to spend some of the day counting my number of sugars and reds tapped. First time Ive made medium instead of light to begin the season but I attribute that to the higher number of reds that I have tapped this year. Also on vac for the first time.