Tapping in Ontario

I got about 13 gallons from my 28 taps today.

Should have the rest of the taps in on Friday. The weekend looks like the start of several days of good sap flow!

haven't even checked my buckets since Sun morn. Fell into a sink hole beside my well up to my hip, I've spent all week putting in a temporary water system for the house with an 1100 gal tank in the garage.......fun wow!

How long would you guys recommend keeping sap in the buckets. I emtied Sat aft. my buckets aren't full yet, probably 15-20 litres per pail now, I plan on emptying in the morning.......is this batch plant food or should it be ok

It's been cold enough it should still be good. If it gets milky, enough that you can't see the bottom of the bucket thru the sap, I'd dump it.

Water solution
1) tap 1000 more trees
2) blow $ 15000 on an RO and you'll have lots of sparkling clear water
HEHEHE

thanks Brent, I'll run that one by the wife.

We survived the winds with only one tree down across the end of one line and we lost a part of the roofing shingles on the shack and the sap did run in the winds now we got 50 gal. frozen sap. It wont run till Saturday now good time to clean things up!

Thermometer say -2 here but feels like 20 below. I will have to go check for surprises out back also. Our weather is the same saying maybe saturday.

I was really worried about my smokestack yesterday. It's 17" square and probably 35' above the roof and the 50mph winds put a pretty good warp and lean in it! Luckily it was still standing when we left the camp at 10:30 last night.

We got the hard day out of the way yesterday. We managed to figure out a lot of the things that Dad used to look after himself. The RO got washed up and membrane installed. I ran a couple hundred gallons of sap through it to get the storage solution flushed out and then started concentrating. We ran 3000 gallons of sap through it to concentrate to 8%. We flooded the pans, lit the fire and were off to the races. It took 4 hours to get our first runoff and by the end we had 43 gallons of very good light syrup - almost extra light. Mom made some beautiful sugar with it. Hopefully the weekend is a good one. Our first boil was 17 days earlier than last year!

We tapped about 125 trees on this past saturday. The sap was running a little bit on Tuesday evening and Wednesday,,,,,,,we collected about 25-30 gallons and boiled it down last night.......the first syrup of the year is always special. But today was back to reality...exremly cold with the wind (probably minus 20)....suppose to be nice this weekend.....its still early in the season for us.

I 5 gallon jugs are 1/4 to 1/2 full and frozen solid. Its suppose to get to 2 here today I hope I can get some sap out of them to day and tomorrow. I have to take my daughter to Montreal on Sunday til Tuesday to look at universities and those day look like a great run right now. Maybe I can get my son to collect while I'm gone.
I think I need to get some buckets with wide lids the 2 inch openings on the jugs suck when you get ice.

Jerome, while in Montreal try and get to Dominion Grimm, fairly easy to find.
I went last year. Montreal is about an hour from here, but D&G an hour and a half or so because it at the east end of the city.