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Next to nothing for sap today, the evaporator has been burning since Friday afternoon , about 100 l left to cook down . Season is sitting at 54 l of syrup made, the taps will be pulled out this coming Saturday any sap boiled down and then the final count and clean up.
I managed to get through 37.5 gallons today and ended up with just under 3 litres of syrup. Hell of a long day with my setup to get such a small amount. Sure gives me motivation to build a better evaporator for next year. As long as the tress hold off budding this week, the temps are going down below zero for another week starting next weekend, so I should be good for at least a few more boils. Still have about 100 gallons to boil down this week.
Shut the pumps off yesterday at noon small amount of sap was coming in but was cloudy. Forecast says -5 Celsius on Friday night then a high of 1 Saturday then back to seasonal temps after that. Any predictions as to weather or not that is going to reset things for another run?
I think it will re-set things Tyler. I'm boiling today's sap tomorrow and will then push through the evaporator with water so we can drain and wash it. I expect the cold temps for a few days will bring better sugar content and stronger flows. I recall us going from a dark amber (what was left in the pans) to a mid light in several hours boiling after a hard freeze.
Its flowing here today. Nice and clear. I'm SE of peterborough. The weekend looks ok too. I hope to catch up this weekend. I'm way below my usual average so far this year.
S.
I see some of the soft maples have popped and they're bothering my wife's allergies. It starts freezing tonight, but daytime highs are really too low and then it stops freezing after Monday night. Should of tapped in January, but wasn't ready. Syrup has went to dark. Almost got hit by a 6" ash tree that uprooted in the wind yesterday.
62 l of filtered bottled syrup, that's a wrap on this season. Not the easiest syrup season , but have made more than enough to share with all of family and friends.
Well what can I say making syrup is a bug, I had said that I'd had made enough for the season and the taps would be pulled out. Well work got busy and the equpiment stayed up and the Easter weekend hit and the week since has been a full on flood of sap. The evaporator has been running none stop since easter Sunday and we have now added 68 litters of syrup to the allready made 54 l and there is still 5 drums of sap to boil down. Not sure what we are going to do with so much syurp but still having fun.
Anyone plan on tapping with these warm temps forecast, I was late to the game last year and don't want to miss out this year. What do you all think?
I am about 30 mins away from you west and have done a little walnut but temps are messed up at the moment so waiting here