Been collecting sap for nearly a month now, but only on my second boil this Easter weekend. Some of my 28 taps are dripping today approaching 60 degrees outside. Most of the snow is now melted in the yard. Anybody pulling taps soon?
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Been collecting sap for nearly a month now, but only on my second boil this Easter weekend. Some of my 28 taps are dripping today approaching 60 degrees outside. Most of the snow is now melted in the yard. Anybody pulling taps soon?
I'm still in through next weekend. Sap is still running well here and it looks like OK after today. Woods are still snow covered here but it's getting spotty.
On April 3, 2014 I was doing my first boil of the season. Unless you keep notes you quickly forget what happens year-to-year.
I have 50+ gallons of sap to boil tomorrow. Snow is gone by me and ground has thawed. Looks like one more frost night Saturday night, then will stay above freezing all next week, with day time temps in 50's and some days low 60's. I'll most probably pull the taps on Sunday after the Easter Feast.:cry:
Wondering myself.... Boiling down 20 gallons today/ tonight, collected from 20 taps this week.. Not much collected today with last night being warm. I chose to leave buckets out because of predicted cold night Saturday. I am thinking this may be it though. I suppose it is a race between us and the buds. I did find ants got to one bucket. They don't get past the filter though!!
I was thinking the same thing. Anyone know at what % it's considered buddy sap?
More of the taste and color than %.
Mike
pulled my taps today..the lovely Mrs. and I bottled up the last batch...not a ton of sap, but enough to give to some friends.. Thanks to the helpful and knowledgeable folks on this forum--I had a lot of fun!
I pulled all my taps yesterday, finished and bottled all the syrup I drew off wed and Thursday. Ended up with 40 gal syrup, all A light to A dark. I went to finish off the sweet in the pan this morning, and the sweet had gone ropey on me; gross looking stuff, that sweet last year was about 6 gal syrup, which this year got tossed.
Shorter season for me than last year, but I did a little better on sap and syrup count; much lighter syrup this season too. The color of my last batch (8) this season was the same color as my third batch last year. How about you guys?