I put in 80 taps on 3/19. Roughly 1/4 were wet. When I collected on 4/2 I had a total of 25 gallons of sap. Half of the trees still aren’t producing anything at all.
Weather looks good this...
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I put in 80 taps on 3/19. Roughly 1/4 were wet. When I collected on 4/2 I had a total of 25 gallons of sap. Half of the trees still aren’t producing anything at all.
Weather looks good this...
Between 4/15 and 4/20 I got about 110 gallons of sap from 50 taps. I collected on Saturday morning and spent the rest of the day and Sunday boiling. A few of my maples that are out in the open have...
I boiled about 35gal of sap on 3/18 and got 64oz of light golden syrup. I boiled again on 3/25, about 48gal of sap and 128oz of syrup, still light golden. Sugar content was in the range of 2.5%-3.0%....
I made some paths with snowshoes and am all tapped as of this afternoon. Trees are a mix of still frozen, wet, and some flow. A few trees had about 1" of sap in the bag from the past 24 hours.
I put out 2 test taps yesterday and another 8 today. Absolutely nothing. No drops from the tap holes, nothing in the bags. Snow is about knee deep and everything still seems pretty well frozen. I...
This year is my first attempt at sugaring. My location is a forested valley about 15 miles west of Shell Lake. I tapped 20 trees and set bags on 2/18. As of yesterday I have next to nothing, about 2...