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by the looks of the flow currently, this will be the best run for me so far this year! I've been very pleasantly surprised how cool the temps have compared to how well the runs have been! I don't recall this happening before... however I'm sure it has.
Yesterday started out a bit slow for me even though the sun came up early. I was beginning to wonder if I would get much sap at all. By noon it started picking up and by 8 pm I had one gallon a tap. It was a nice day to start pruning some apple trees. I have a slight correction from a previous number I gave the other day. I am now at 47% of last years numbers. Looks like no sap for at least 10 days but that could all change. Hoping the season last well into April.
Spud
Sap has been running so good and I'm so busy I can't even keep track anymore the gpt's per day. It all blends together. You'll have that when you're hauling from four different places. I can say that it is over a gallon per tap, way over..... Mostly all light Amber, looks to be another good year don't know how good that will be for next year's prices, I'm a little concerned
What grading system are you using?Quote:
Originally Posted by blissville maples
Between the small flows on Saturday and yesterday afternoon we got about 5,000 gal of sap to RO this morning. Will send it off to the bulk tank and probably boil on Friday.
It was slow to get going yesterday here as well but I did pull in about 1000 gal. before it froze up last night. I was also able to find a couple drops that had popped off during the last hard freeze that revealed themselves when the vac. dropped after everything thawed out. Back up to 27".
The niter started to show up during the last boil so I soaked the syrup pans and will clean them before boiling later today. Not sure what the next few days will bring but I'm not expecting much. But, it has run well every time it has snowed recently....
The sap started running today at 2:00pm. Right now it is running 525 GPH. It may leek running for several hours. Very surprised on some of these sap runs. Seems way to. Old.
Spud
Tim, do you mean that you will RO and hold it until Friday? I'm using RO for the first time this year - unbelievable - but what I want to ask is whether it's ok to let it sit like that for a couple days. Unless I was going to fall behind, I wouldn't have any problem holding on to raw sap that long if the weather is cold. But I was under the impression that concentrate is more likely to spoil if not processed quickly. Could you share a bit of your experience with respect to how long you can keep it at different temperatures? Thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrTimPerkins
We have a bulk tank that keeps the 30-35 Brix concentrate at 25 deg F. It’ll last a good bit of time at that temp. Without it we would boil immediately.
Yesterday to my surprise the sap started running at 2:00pm. Before long it was rolling and continued till 6:00 when everything froze up. In the 4 hours it ran I got 1700 gallons. Sap testing at 1.9%. Did anyone else get sap yesterday? I could not believe the sap ran yesterday. I give up trying to predict sap runs from here on out. It's crazy.
Spud