One bush tapped this afternoon,not a lot running yet,snow still frozen hard up the sides of the trees
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One bush tapped this afternoon,not a lot running yet,snow still frozen hard up the sides of the trees
Put in 95 taps this afternoon, and out of that I saw a half dozen dripping and two gushers as soon as I drilled. Over all things were pretty quiet still today, it gave me a chance to do some repairs and tweaking of the lines.
Relax, buds probably won't show up til about mid-April or so. If you have reds they will stop producing sap (meaning good, clear, usable sap) and bud first, in my bush they pop out at least 2 weeks before the sugars bud. My best tree will keep on producing til the very last day, when it's getting too warm and moths and flies are in the sap. Watch for sap that looks cloudy and/or smells off especially as you start to boil. Last year the final batch from the virgin bush soured on me overnight, but didn't realize it til I started to boil the next day. My house suddenly smelled like a hot muggy swamp full of frogs! I chucked it immediately - unless of course you WANT your syrup to taste like a frog's butt... >:-pQuote:
Originally Posted by 67HEAVEN
Meanwhile...stop thinking and worrying so much, and go tap, collect, make syrup, rinse, repeat!!!!!
Yay!! Worked today and the CEO of operations called me to say the Taps started dripping again! Yay! My engines are started!Quote:
Originally Posted by Run Forest Run!
Lesley I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep tonight. It's like Santa is coming and my buckets are hung on the trees with care! The first run of the season is always so exciting! All the best for a killer run in Inverary. :D
we finished tapping all 2000 Saturday afternoon, took about 2 1/2 days, trees where running a bit when we drilled them. Just got to wash some tanks and hook up the vacuum pump today.
LOL it's barely 7am on a Sunday morning and look at how busy this place is! Tapping today, at last. Have to get my snowpants on and go stomp paths to the trees...once I actually wake up, shower etc :-)
Just waiting for the day to warm up.....
It's coming.....
TurkeyJohn
I can hardy stand the excitement. The sunshine is really going to kick start things out there soon!
Woohoo!!! So happy! Just finished setting the spiles, happy to be punching through the snowcrust which only 20 min earlier was still solid enough to walk on...and guess what...the south spile on #5 is already dripping! That same spile has been the first one to produce the last two years, so let's hope it's a good sign! Walking around with an idiotic smile on my face, at least the neighbours are used to it :-)