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I did most of mine yesterday, no freeze last night, many had some sap this AM at dawn. I can never seem to get dark syrup, or I get very little. About half of my trees will run right up until the last frost. I saved a half dozen I'm not going to tap until March, just to see if they'll run darker later?
I had 20 gal. of sap [wow, huh?] this afternoon, so I dumped it in, fired up & boiled it down to about 4 gal. Smelled good!
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Originally Posted by Mike Van
They will all run darker later, I'm sure. The dark syrup is from more beasties that get cooked into the syrup. Making only light syrup is a problem we'd all love to have.
Tapped 31 of 100 here in Guilford on Sunday. Been too warm. Got 20 gallons Sunday and Monday. Better get the pans set up soon.
Picked up 55 gal/sap yesterday & boiled it off. Should be some more today, as the big trees just started running. Looks like some time off from Sunday to ????????
I picked up about 50/gal of sap on Thursday. My son had to help me dump buckets, I was so sick for 3 days. !st day was throwing up, 2nd day was the other end. Glad thats over with. Fired up at noon today & boiled it off. Sure was great to be back out in the fresh air. Looks like by Wednesday we should be running pretty good here.
Picked up 60 gal. & boiled it off last night. May be a little left over today in the pails as it was still running when I was collecting. After that, old man winter comes back for a few days. Stupid groundhog.
Back at it finally, we should have some sap for the next few days - weeks? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...an/syrup09.jpg
glad to hear ya got some sap again mike, mine have been flowing great here too! they ran almost around the clock since friday! i pumped out friday at 6 pm and my tanks had over 200 gallons in morning from 325 taps. the only disapointment is that its a bit under 2 percent sugar content, but i figured it might be low since alot of woods trees and swamp/red maples
Hey Mark - If anyone didn't have [a lot of] sap in Ct. this past weekend, it's cause they didn't drill deep enough! I picked up a little over 100 gal from my 50 trees, looks like Tue. it should be running again. Boy, I got MUD! driveway, barnyard, what a mess.