I tapped yesterday here in Northern CT. With it being almost 50 today and it being cold last night I was expecting great flow today. Anyone else dissapointed? Or is it just my area or CT?
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I tapped yesterday here in Northern CT. With it being almost 50 today and it being cold last night I was expecting great flow today. Anyone else dissapointed? Or is it just my area or CT?
I can only say that last year when the weather was PERFECT, I was shocked some days to come home at 2pm to find my sap saks hardely filled at all
im up in nh and tapped 40 today. 20 early in the morning and 20 about 2 hours ago. the trees were frozen solid so it should take a day to thaw. it ran a little bit up here. but nothing crazy. expecting more tomorrow with it being 40.
spencer
It was about 22 last night, and 46 today, and i have 37 tapped and collected at about 4p.m. Only got like 10 gal! along with a few other gal. from the other night, and i collected 15 minutes ago and got another 5 gal so ill have about 16 in the head tank now. I was very disapointed at the run today also. I believe this is caused by a difference in barametric pressure and it caused them to run less. If it rains the barometric pressure makes it run more i believe. I hope to boil soon with 20+ gal soon.
I was pretty disappointed as well, I got around 25 gal. out of 65 taps. here in Haddam, Ct.
It was pretty cold last night (18 deg. here). The trees never really thawed because of the wind. I collected about 2/3 of what I have been getting. Tomorrow will probably be better.
Not too great here in NW CT either. I was thinking my 3 year old drops were doing me in but the buckets are not much better. I still haven't finished any syrup and have been tapped for 8 days. Hopefully tomorrow night I'll have enough to boil again and can finish a gallon or so.
Im still working on gettin my taps in, have about 500 so far, ran ok today but nothing too special, plan to boil again tommorow, low sugar like 1.5 it seems, but so far made around 23 gallons of syrup
50 gallons collected yesterday and boiled down to concentrate off 70 taps. I still have more taps to put in. It hit 53 degrees in Cheshire yesterday.
New to Forum and a hobbyist but I hung 30 buckets on 2/1 and the flow seem to be getting stronger in Middlebury.
08-1 tap bucket on stove
09-15 taps with a barrel evaporator
10-same
11-same
12-40 taps & bigger barrel evaporator
Try to keep syruping fun and not a chore!