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Thanks for the response. I will leave it be. Being new at this I wanted to know if there was anything I could do. Sounds like Mother Nature will have to fix it.

I went out to tap trees yesterday and noticed that one of my taps from last year was leaking pretty good. There was sap all the way down to the base of the tree. The tree is 25+ inches in diameter....

This weekend there is a Maple Harvest Festival at Shaver's Creek. http://www.outreach.psu.edu/shaverscreek/index-maple-harvest-festival.html

Actually yesterday I got about 5 Gallons of sap, nothing over the weekend. Some of our trees are larger and can hold 3 or 4 taps. We are getting most of our sap from the larger trees. Hoping to get...

Our taps produced a bit more today than the last few days but still nothing like the first day. Since Saturday we have gathered about 35 gallons of sap off of 21 taps.

We can definitely compare...

Thanks for the quick response. I was worried I was doing something wrong. I will watch it and pray for colder weather. Wow I don't normally pray for cold weather after a long winter :)

The temperature has been pretty warm (today in the low 50's) and the lows have been slightly less than freezing. Not sure why we would get a quarter of what we got the first day?

I live in Bellefonte PA and this is my first time with tapping trees. We tapped about 10 trees on Saturday, which gave us a good amount of sap. The following three days have given us next to...