Southwestern Ontario

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Originally Posted by canadian_diesel1964

awesome!... I have some trees giving and some not...i think they are waking up or in shock?

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It's amazing how trees can vary greatly in the amounts of sap they produce and when. Traditionally my two best trees are slow to start but two weeks later are kicking everyone else to the curb, then towards the end drop off very sharply. Another really good tree starts strong and just keeps chugging along all season. Couple others don't do much til the last two weeks or so then kick into gear. And all this on a property of only 1/2 acre, so the terrain/precip etc are consistent for all trees. Go figure!

I have 45 taps in a virgin bush never been tapped all sugar maples. So far they give good and avg sugar %

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Originally Posted by Galena

It's amazing how trees can vary greatly in the amounts of sap they produce and when. Traditionally my two best trees are slow to start but two weeks later are kicking everyone else to the curb, then towards the end drop off very sharply. Another really good tree starts strong and just keeps chugging along all season. Couple others don't do much til the last two weeks or so then kick into gear. And all this on a property of only 1/2 acre, so the terrain/precip etc are consistent for all trees. Go figure!

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Yup I'm scratching my head here but it's all good...I am worried about the warm temps coming this week though ....

Despite all the warm weather this week my trees haven't been flowing that we'll. I put 3 taps in on the 14th and only have 14L of sap. Anyone else noticed the sap not flowing too well?

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Originally Posted by STP92x

Despite all the warm weather this week my trees haven't been flowing that we'll. I put 3 taps in on the 14th and only have 14L of sap. Anyone else noticed the sap not flowing too well?

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Saturday I had good flow, Sunday it started dripping late afternoon but didnt last long. Today My taps were pretty much silent.

Sunday was the best day of the long weekend for us. Not great flow but still ended up with 430 L of sap for the long weekend. Looks like we are done for another week.

at what point do we need to worry about these trees budding on us?

What a great weekend, got my 150 taps in and have started into boiling down. 900 l of sap to deal with this will keep me busy hahaha. Many of the road side giants haven't started running, but the smaller one tap trees have figured out its time to get moving.

I don't know why today but the trees pumped out alot of sap . I didn't get 1 gallon per tap but not far from it . 150 taps net 110 -120 gallons. How are the rest of you making out ???

35 taps and 20 gallons of sap since saturday morning. Its been very slow