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Wow, how many taps do you have in?? I have 25 and I think I only collected about 7 gallons.

I jumped in yesterday. Twenty gravity taps in lowland reds.

Forgot to update! I put out about 15 buckets earlier this week on my deep woods reds. Not much happening so far.

Looks like things are wrapping up. Nights have been a little too warm and I've only picked up a few gallons in the past week. Temps look really warm moving forward. This felt like a really short...

Well, I boiled about 10 gallons today. The fire pit worked great and it was actually my first time finishing off with a hydrometer and the appropriate filters. Made a world of difference.

In general that's probably accurate, but I've never had any issues. I'm also only working with Reds scattered throughout the forest, so I'm not sure if that makes a difference. I always get to the...

I jumped in on Monday with 13 taps on 13 trees. It is early, but I've tapped around this time or even a little earlier for the past couple years and never regretted it. I'm trying about 9 new trees...

I waited it out through the nor'easters and have been getting a nice run for the past week. I just went out and collected my last round of buckets for the season, though. Things are getting too...

Still nothing running over here. Between the sap flow and everything else going on around the house now, I may pack it in for the season. I'm still glad I got in mid to late January and caught all...

Nothing doing down here for me. Trees have been dead quiet for a couple days now.

Boiled about 8 gallons today (collected over the past couple days) and had a pretty weak yield. I’m wondering if this burst of warm weather spurrred some really watery sap.

Same story over here. Things have been going really well and it doesn't look like I got in too early.

Put in about 30 taps in my reds yesterday, all on buckets. I noticed that by 4:00 PM just about all of them had started running. I tapped some new trees this year and eliminated a few slow ones, so...

Go for it! I'm going all-in tomorrow as well (~30 taps on swamp maples).

I think I'm going to get in the game this weekend. The next 10 days or so are looking pretty good.

I have had a pretty good run over the last week (~6 gallons). It looks like the nighttime temps may be staying above freezing for the foreseeable future, so that may do it for me. My trees are so...

Some of my reds are already starting to bud. Are you other local guys seeing the same thing?

If this is your first boil, good luck! I've boiled three times total (this is my second year after a short attempt last year) and it's a learning experience every time.

My swamp maples are really running down here now, I would say I got about 5 or 6 gallons in the last couple days. Spent most of the day yesterday boiling and ended up with a nice little jar of...

How are your bucket trees doing down there here? Mine have been pretty slow.

I did. So I'm tapping 13 trees right now, and I would say I had about 6 or 7 actually producing anything up until Thursday (flow was very slow the week prior). Since then, I have had a couple more...

25 taps on buckets, all reds. I put them in back on 1/22 and got about 4.5 gallons in the first week and then everything dried up. It looks like they have started running a bit in the last day or...

FYI, things finally started picking up yesterday. I just took a walk around and noticed that the sap's already running this morning.

Smart idea, I'll keep that in mind.

The worst (most embarrassing) part is that I couldn't even boil the original 7 gallons. I was storing it all in a Rubbermaid storage bin in the tiny creek behind my place to keep it cool. Well, the...