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Hey all!

I feel like winter took a detour this year, and pseudo-spring filled the void.

Anybody going to take a stab at tapping early this year?

Long range is all over the place, but...

Hopefully another crop comes later this week when she warms up again. I'm not sure, but it feels like either I miscalculated the season and started too late, or this oddly warm winter has affected...

Yes, thanks for the input. I'll be keeping better track over the next few years to see if there is a trend.

Only a handful of trees produced anything significant here in the last few days. ...

Question for anyone out there in maple land:

I should have paid more attention to this in the past, but I'm pretty sure I notice some of my same trees seem to fair much better than others year...

nhdog
Yes, that wind was wicked, cold and unrelenting. It blew a fresh gale for days down there. If I wasn't using ice cream buckets with tubes attached, I would have had sideways sapcicles coming...

Ok, I tapped my 50 reds this w/e....just got them all in before the rains last night. Most of the trees were flowing. Collected over 50L of sap this afternoon. ~1L per tree.

Will check the...

nhdog
I bet you can't wait to spark that up.....what a nice looking unit.

Did any of you guys get much sap in the past week? I think I might give it a whirl in a few days after this next little...

nhdog

That a sweet evap. Just looked at the youtube advert.

Temps. look good next week.

nhdog

I was hesitating to tap this year since we had another really dry summer last year and assuming the % sugar will be quite low again. Hmmmm.....

Did you end up getting the Mason??

Yeah, my ratios have been much better in previous years from what I remember but I'll have to look at my past records to verify. I now use ice cream buckets with a sealed lid to collect the sap, and...

I boiled 2 weekends ago and only made a bit more than 2 litres of finished, from about 175L of red maple sap. The syrup is great but the ratios are not the best. Although red maples have lower...

One more small point to CBLA. All of my storage containers had a mix of ice/slush in them when I was doing the boil, so that hindered the speed of the boiling/evaporation as well.

nhdog, Bill's...

CBLA, with the ~175L I had, it took roughly 4.5 hours to reduce it to ~10L....I finished the remainder on the stove. So, 35L/hr maybe?? There were a few factors as well. I used up some softwood I...

Boiled ~175L today and ended up with a little over 2L of finished. I'm using a WF Mason (2x3) with a blower. I drove all the way down to southern Maine and picked it up at his house. Cool guy!!!

I collected ~100L of sap today (aprox. 2L/bucket), just a few were bone dry and a few had close to 5L. Not bad and hoping tonight and tomorrows' predicted temps and sunshine will hold true so we can...

I'm going to check my buckets in a few days. Wasn't much over the weekend. Looks like the temps might be coming around though. Did you get anything close to Bridgewater where you are over the...

Yes, slow going it seems but looks like we'll get some good cold evening temps this weekend....just need some nice warm sun on those trees during the day. Being by the coast seems to moderate the...

My taps have been in for 2 days now. I collected what was there today and my yield was ~40L. None of the trees were running, so I guess it didn't get cold enough for long enough after the thaw on...

I tapped 50 trees today. It climbed to +6C in Lunenburg and all but a few trees were running....some were running quite well. Looks like lots of above and below 0C forecast for the next two weeks,...

Thanks again MikeC82. You were right. After 2 days of above zero temps,the sap continued flowing and I ended up getting over 200L from my 50 taps. They were still running when I went to check them...

Ok, thanks Mike. I see you still had a fairly good run at the end of March that year, even though three days remained above zero. That answers my question (nice chart by the way). I will certainly...

Thank you Big_Eddy!! Great 2 cents there.

A quick follow up then:

I have mostly 10" to 12" trees, and a few 8" as well. They grow in clumps of 4 or 5, so I pick up a few in each clump with my...

Hi guys,

I'm not from Eastern Ontario but have been following your posts and seeing how you've been making out with sap production out there. My little sugar bush is in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia by...

...tapped 25 more trees today with the tube and bucket system. Wow, some of the trees were wide awake and dripping like crazy with the warm sun. Hope to see some good results in the next few days. ...

Hello from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. My first post!

Started tapping last weekend as the trees were just waking up. 20 trees with as many old fashioned buckets....all red maple. Going for 30 more new...