Just finished up catching up for the week up to 12.25 gallons made
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Just finished up catching up for the week up to 12.25 gallons made
My best Feb. ever, just over 1500 gal/sap so far - I can remember several years back one Feb was so cold, nothing ran at all. I have a school field trip coming tomorrow - Should be fun -
My fifth year now and definitely the best sap flow for my trees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Van
Not getting much of a break between runs with no dry spell at all on the bigger trees. Big trees giving 3% and small trees giving 2% and I have 1 Red Maple giving 1%
Having a difficult time keeping up with 41 taps on 4 steam pans with 3 rolling hard, but able to just barely.
Attachment 21082 My first tour group was a great success -
Slowly thawing out here today in Simsbury, but looks like the first part of this week will be too warm for another run?
There will be a good run starting tomorrow, going into Tuesday until the sap is all up. Then we'll need another freeze to reset the process. Too many warm days thawed with no freeze at night is not good, trees tapped 4 weeks ago will start to slowly run less & less. Thats my experience anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by CTSap4Maple
So this is my first year after a 2 or 3 year hiatus. Filtered and bottled 1.5 gallons of syrup. I don't track sap exactly, but I estimated I had boiled 60 gallons, but I guess it must have been a bit more. I desperately need a better filtering process. I use maple flat filters on a ~1.5 sq ft mesh flat pan and barely anything goes through it. I wasn't able to filter while it was thinner than syrup and there was a lot of niter. I thought I stopped boiling at 65-66 brix but the additional steps of filtering and bottling evaporated more than I realized. I ended up with syrup that's 70 brix so I'm sure that's partially why.
Will prob boil again next weekend, which will be another 2 weeks sitting in buckets. But with the amount of ice in the buckets, I think it should be good.
There will be a good run starting tomorrow, going into Tuesday until the sap is all up.
Yes, collected 210 gallons today.
Sap ran pretty good yesterday, ran real good last night. 22 gallons syrup so far. We need to figure how we are going to sell it all. We put a sign on the road when we are just boiling (not bottling) and have had a few visitors to the shack. It is fun to share the process with other people.
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