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So collected tonight 33 taps 40gal. Sap since yesterday only 2 buckets with cloudy sap that I had to dump, boiling on friday

got in 15 taps today all on buckets, most were running good, still have 25 to go, hope to get the rest in tommorow

Forgot to mention of the 40gals of sap collected this run ,sugar was 1% lowest so far ,on all reds and silvers ,50taps buckets and drop lines

Boiling 40gal of sap right now ,temp outside is 45 and wind is starting to pickup a little ,needed to get it done tonight as I wouldn't be able to get to it till Thursday and figured it would go bad...

so now i am wondering how the sap will from some of my silvers that budded out the other day ,will this cold snap kill off the buds and produce good sap ? or will the sap be fine regardless of the...

i cant believe how warm it is today , thought i would take a walk and check on thing and low and behold some were dripping ,then i looked up and saw some of the trees with buds opened up on them not...

Still running here ,but slowing down

Collected another 19gals today , boiled right away to warm to let it sit ,some taps running good others slow or not at all

1.4% silvers and reds, no sugar maples

Have collected 35 gal of sap off 40 taps now I am all in with 50 and started to boil today around 11:30am ,hope to boil 35 gals plus what I ever I get today by the time I have to go to work tonight ,...

looking good here in lockport 40 day 32 night lets hope it doesn't change, just put out 17 more tonight still need to get 8 more in for total of 50 then let it flow

Same here ,got overly anxious and started a week early , but will see if March warms up I won't regret it

Put in few more today getting ready for the weekend run total so far ,20 on drops into buckets 2 on pails ,had about gal in each bucket from last night which was 15-5 gal buckets

i put out 15 of 50 taps today just to get started and see how thing flow this week will probably put rest out by end of this week ,temp. today was 37degrees here , nothing moving yet

you should put one in just to scratch the itch ,thats what i did and seems to be passifying me for now

I am in Niagara county and had to just put in a least one tap today to see how much I would get tapped at 1:30pm so will see how much I get in 24hrs , also want to run a test on new check valve spile...

good point on it stopping on its own , thanks everyone for sound advice and talking me off the ledge of maple mania

i think i am overly anxious to get started ,and will wait as well ,Feb. can be a bear for cold weather,dont want to jump the gun and have tap holes dry out at the end, thanks

Well once again I am struggling with the decision to tap or not , anyone in the area going to tap today ,the 10 day forecast looks like perfect sap flow weather, just seems to early, I put in 50 taps...

hang in there it will be over soon and before you know it you will be wishing you were still going and counting down the days till the next season

pulled all old taps that were not running and new taps running like crazy , collected 10 gal this am and just went out and collected another 6 gal on about 15 taps , lost count on new taps old taps...

i am very curious to see how my trees do ,as half of them had budded out prior to this freeze up so it will be interesting to see how this affects the sap ,hopefully for the good

i was out of town and came home friday and tapped on saturday and today i have 45 taps all on buckets and collected about 20 gals of sap so far,today was high of 35 and some were driping slow hoping...

Tapped yesterday ,got all 50 in ,all reds and silvers and 2 sugar maples ,and boy were they flowing

okay help me out , checked 2 trees yesterday with some broken branches and sap was dripping out of them, i feel as though i am missing out ,i tap 50 tree all on buckets,is it that if you tap to early...