Eastern Ontario 2014.

I'm at roughly 1/2 litre per tap for the season too (about an hour's syrup for Ennis! ) Didn't collect sap yesterday after the scout came back reporting 6" of water on the trails, and 1/4" sap in the buckets. Boiled off remaining Monday sap though and all the tanks are empty. Will likely collect whatever there is tonight but not expecting anything spectacular.

As Yellzee indicated, the radio forecast is calling for more freezing nights but the web forecast isn't. I'd like to have sap to boil this weekend, one son is coming home from Uni between exams and he enjoys collecting and boiling as much as the others. He missed out his last visit due to the late start.

We have lots of snow in the bush still, although my trails are now mud (where they aren't water). Snow is disappearing quickly anywhere it's exposed to the sun. A few more cold nights would be good.

Taps were running fast and furious this morning but have pretty much dried up now. May pull my taps later this week. Trees still not showing any signs of budding but not calling for any good nighttime freezes til possibly later next week. Time to start moving on to other projects and getting ready for summer.

So after another disappointing sap run, and a long day spinning through mud and snow to collect it,I decided to pull my taps. Looks like there might be a couple decent days by mid next week. Good luck to everyone who is sticking it out to the bitter end.

Almost nothing back there.. What the heck?

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Originally Posted by DrewCP

On the bold, We had 6 of our trees turn to yellow sap sometime on Mon or Tues. Dumped around 10 gallons yellow of yellow sap on the ground. We'll see what today brings us. May be the last hurrah for us.

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Yes I do have lids for my pails, though some could have blown in as it was pretty windy here too. And today my 15l of sap were back to being clear and colourless. Hanging in there til the weekend then pull the spiles probably Sunday.

We didn't collect today but there's perhaps 30 gallons in the buckets for tomorrow. I'm in till the end. 3 yrs ago I made more syrup two weeks AFTER I had intended to pull my taps than I did the remainder of the season. I got busy on the weekend and ran out of time. The next Friday is started flowing and didn't stop for a week.

Bottled another 10.5 litres. Up to 47.5 litres now. Still 2 large pots to finish. Probably 25-30 litres in there. I agree the end of season runs always seem to be the biggest! Holding out a while yet myself. No moths, flies, still snow in woods, I am expecting a couple good runs. There is ice forming now at my sump pump outlet so that looks good.

I had expected yesterday to be much better than it was, I only got around 7 gallons,probably going to call it quit's in the next day or 2, its getting really sloppy in the forest, wet and muddy and my atv is down for repairs, so walking in is an option, but its a long walk to and from,especially caring 7 gallons of sap though mud/ice/snow/water lol.

Good frost here last night. Hopefully today is better than yesterday! Gotta find some bottles today

Well, I boiled for 8hrs yesterday and had more sap left in the storage tank than when I started, so I must've got something like 120gals of sap yesterday. We were a low of 27F overnight, and now already 46F this morning, so the sap should flow good.

Cheers,
Russ