So does the flow stop with only 1 night above freezing? I have about 33 taps in, but from now until Sunday I think it will be above freezing.
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So does the flow stop with only 1 night above freezing? I have about 33 taps in, but from now until Sunday I think it will be above freezing.
It will stop overnight whenever it freezes. But there are exceptions. It has been documented that there can be a freeze at ground level and the tree tops are in a mild inversion, so it can keep going. Under some circumstances
you get what is called 'dark surface radiation' that will freeze the tree tops when the temp stays above freezing.
If you have a real hard freeze and just above freezing the next day, the tree may stay frozen all day.
In a nutshell ... it depends.
got in 78 today.. almost there... nothing really running until about 6pm when I noticed a couple of the lats had bubbles moving along... most of the holes were wet for the last part of the afternoon. I think maybe it warmed up a degree or two... we might get a good run tonight with the warm weather and rain moving in over night.
Check out this link on the lang range temperature trend. If I lived north of HWY 7, I wouldn't be tapping until at least next weekend. I need to see at least 4 consecutive days over four above in the 7 day forecast forecast before I get think about getting the drill out of the draw. Has anyone in Ontario got over .5 gallon per tap this year?
Got in 30 more so about 108 taps. Might have gotten 30 gallons of sap in the past 2 days total. Looks like cold is here for a while now, but at least I'm ready.
Brent you guys tap yet? We tried on the weekend but we broke several tee's on the branches to the spils so we decided to stop (-9) on sunday we ended up tapping 165 buckets for the kids. I really want to get these lines in before the weekend but I am not sure that we are going to be able to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brent
We've had a bunch of bags and buckets out for a week or so and have not had enough to fill a 5 gallon pail. but I think all that changes this week.
Still working on the evaporator so I'm not unhappy about the delay in temperatures. Still looks like a traditional St Patty's day start.
I've been tapped for over a week now with less that 10 gals from 100 trees to show for it (and another 30 gals of ice in the pails) Maybe it will warm up enough by Wednesday. By this time last year, we were just about done.
I'm south of London (near Lake Erie)
I put 40 taps in between Wed and Friday and by Sunday I had about 10-15 gallons to boil down. I think I got maybe 1 litre finished syrup in the end. I did a lot of it in the kitchen as it wasn't enough sap for my 2X4 pan.
I think some of it may have been rain water as the buckets don't always sit straight under the lids. I'm thinking the smaller 2 gallon buckets are better than the 3 gallon (plastic) buckets for this reason.
I'm hoping for much more by next weekend!
Chris