Hey Missouri- give us your update on sap flow

Ive heard that some folks tapped trees on Christmas 2020 weekend. How did that work? If you didnt, do you think that is too early? John

I did not. I plan on tapping Wed to see.

I was able to tap 25 trees today. A few were running pretty good, the rest were not. Last season I tapped on 01/01 when I saw others here were posting they were tapping. Nothing was running for me until several days later.

This year I am about 6 days early compared to 2020 season.

No trees tapped here. I plan on setting up my driveway operation next week. I have all of my trail building and maintenance finished. I purchased a pump, 350 feet of 1/2 tubing, portable gas generator, and a 65 gallon container. I plan on seeing if I can pump the sap up the 100' rise of the Missouri river bluffs. Tree tapping is a few weeks off for me.

Wow, that is a lot of head pressure for a pump. I have a similar location that would be nice to be able to pump sap up a steep hill however I have not found an inexpensive pump for this purpose. What pump are you planning to use?

Collected 20 gallons of sap this morning. Going to tap some more trees. Boilling now :) not a lot, but happy to be in the woods and boiling too.

Put out 7 taps on 1/5. Collected a couple gallons already and will check them again tomorrow. Weather looks good for sap to run the next couple of weeks. Good luck to everyone.

I was able to finish 1/2 gallon of light colored syrup from the 20 collected.Attachment 21732

I put out 215 sap sacks in the grove over the weekend. Not much mud, so it wasnt terribly exhausting. Yesterday the trees were flowing well and I expect the same today and tomorrow. Gonna be a big collect tomorrow and will likely boil on Thurs/Fri.

Been too busy in the woods cleaning up the local tree rat attempts at starting a confetti factory using my tubing as raw product. Ready to go now. 600+ taps out ready for the warm up. Wish I’d have caught the last warmup but life situations didn’t allow.