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Central MA here. Pulled my 25 taps yesterday. Trees were slowing down. Weird weather this year. I probably could’ve kept them in another week or two, but I am also running low on wood. I think I...

I’m having a good run right now. Pulled 25 gallons from just about 25 taps in a few days. This warm spell is getting the trees going. No end in sight either. Will have to boil this weekend.

I ended up putting in about 25 or so taps today. Weather for the week is mid forties during the days and 20s at night. Should get things moving, in theory. I have another ten taps i did not use in...

Maybe it's the warm 'winter' we've had, but I am just not feeling it this year. Last year I bought a nice evaporator, pan, warming pan, etc. A step up from my cinder block operation of years past....

I'm going to do one last collection and boil the last batch either tonight or tomorrow. Trees (reds) are budding, the sap is juuuust starting to get cloudy, and quite frankly I am tired of hauling...

Sap is still flowing strong in central MA. Pulled 25 gallons off of 30 taps today. Thinking about calling it quits this upcoming weekend, though I suspect we’ve got another couple weeks left. I tap...

Got some weird weather coming. Going to be 65 tomorrow, and then it looks like a week of nothing above freezing. Will provide a break from daily collecting as nothing will be running. Hoping for a...

Thank you! You as well!

Pulled another 15 gallons off the trees today. The temp drop slowed them down…not much is dripping. A well needed freezing night is forecasted.

Thank you! Between what I pulled off this morning and the additional rounds this afternoon, I ended up with 24 gallons of sap today. I will boil this weekend. Won’t have time tomorrow.

This warm weather we're experiencing has my trees gushing. Just pulled 15 gallons off from overnight. Going to have to make a couple of rounds emptying the bags and buckets today.

I’m in Upton. Tapped a couple days ago using drop lines and bags. Tapped 20 trees and had five gallons of sap in about 12 hours.

I just tapped 20 reds. 10 bags, and 20 drop lines into buckets. The sap is flowing really really well right now on the maples in my swamp and near the road. The ones in the woods seem to still be...

Not yet. Itching to get them in, but there's still too much snow on the ground here in central MA. Hopefully the warm snap this week addresses that...

You all have convinced me not to jump the gun on this. So tempting, but I am going to take the advice of those that know more than I do on the subject.

I’m in central MA and thinking of putting in half of my taps (15/30) this weekend. We have some interesting weather coming up and this is only my second year. Being that I tap solely reds I want to...

My trees opened up yesterday. I've got a solid sap flow happening in Central MA. Pulled about 7 gallons from ~15 taps just from this morning. Boiling Friday.

Thank you for the explanation. Not impatient - just more curious than anything. I am going to try it with a couple of trees next year just for fun. I’ll report back with findings.

I tried looking online before asking here, to no avail.

Has anyone ever tried artificially warming the trees to get a better flow? I was thinking that you could, theoretically, put black trash...

I originally tapped ten reds two weeks ago. A week ago, I tapped an additional ten.

All-in-all I have collected 7 gallons of sap....TOTAL.

Echoing what others have said here, I am hoping for...

I will hold off pulling the taps. Thanks for the reply - I very much value all of the feedback.

Thank you for the reply. Very much appreciated. This site is an awesome resource.

Forgive the newbie question, but is what you mention the "ethical" thing to do or would it damage the tree? Sort...

4 of my reds just started flowing REALLY well today. I tapped 10 total. The other 6 are only producing a few drops per day....I've had the taps in for about a week now. How long do I give them to...

Still next to nothing from the reds I tapped. Barely a dribble from all of them. There was one tree that produced a couple of cups of sap one day, but it's back to a dribble too. Wondering if I did...

Thank you all for the replies!

For the second question, I simply meant to ask how long I should wait for a tree to start producing before I give up on that tree and move to another? One of the...

This is day three of my first time ever tapping maples. I tapped 10 red maples here in Central MA. Even though we’ve had freezing days, a couple of them are already starting to run... The bags I am...