After that initial run, it has been slow here as well. Maybe too cold at night?
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After that initial run, it has been slow here as well. Maybe too cold at night?
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So far weather has not cooperated here either, yesterday was ok but had been getting too cold at night then taking till mid aft to get above freezing no where near the sun that was forecasted either but I think next couple days will be good. I am near Owen Sound.
Fixed up. 2400L of sap so far
Yep. It's going here. Having to RO just to make more room for sap storage.
Tapped in today with about 60 trees. Sap was running fairly well, had 1.5" in bottom of the first bucket by the time we finished. Weather sure is screwy this year! I'm concerned about tapping everything now as taps may dry up mid March and who knows when the seasons going to end! So plan for now is run with the 60 taps for a couple of weeks and then put the other 70 taps in. I guess only time will tell if this is a wise move! One of the main goals of our evaporator is to show public how syrup is made at our Maple Festival and that runs weekends until the end of March so the other thing I need to consider is having sap until then to be able to run the evaporator!
Tapped 65 on Feb 4. Have collected 300 + gallons of sap over the week. Located just W of Woodstock.
Paul
We put out 59 taps on the 4th 1st boil of 660L of sap last Friday 9th so much fun https://www.facebook.com/chris.stones.3110 :D check out the after burner! :o
Most of my neighbours tapped a month ago, but I just wasn’t ready, or feeling it.
Tapped this past weekend, first collection yesterday, 880L from 166 buckets, great first day.
Pretty weird to be doing this with zero snow in the bush, and very dry ground.
Not sure how much of a season I will get, hope a few weeks at least.
Despite not freeing for the last few nights, the sap ran all weekend, but not fast.
The next 3 days look ridiculously warm, sure hope the trees decide to wait it out, as there looks to be good sap weather after Wednesday night. Fingers crossed.........
Well, we've made it so far. Sap collected on March 8th was starting to get that yellowish-greenish tinge, and seems to make more foam in the evaporator, but after the cold weather on the weekend we are back to clear flows and still at 2.0 Brix yesterday afternoon, and again during this morning's collection, as it ran all night, and is still running. No freezing overnight temps till Sunday (yikes) and the robin's are singing. Let's hope we make it though another mini-heat wave!