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All of my sap is frozen solid in the sap sacks. It doesn't look like they will thaw before the weekend. This next boil will be my last this year. I am almost out of wood and have almost 7 gallons of...

I have collected more sap so far this week than any week so far. It's really running good. I have over 100 gallons since Sunday on 40 taps.

Taps stopped running with the cold and snow. I have around 60 gallons to boil tomorrow from this week.

Checked the sugar content of the sap in the tree and it was 1.5%. Everyone seems to be seeing low sugar content locally so I will check again when we get another good run .

Looks like a sugar to me. Red leaves are not smooth between the tips on the leaves, they are serrated.
https://northernwoodlands.org/knots_and_bolts/red_versus_sugar

Made another gallon and a half today. Most trees are not running today.

I have one larger sugar maple that has given less than half a gallon of sap in the past few weeks. What's is odd is that...

I'm getting 2% on average in my storage tank. I've been checking individual trees as well and it's all over the place. Was a higher last week averaging 2.5 and early this week was still over 2. I...

As a follow up on this, the snow melted around the tree in question so I went digging through the leaves in the ground. I found 0 silver maple leaves and 8 bizzillion red maple leaves. So I think...

20 More gallons today. Large ones finally started running, but the small ones stopped. Need another freeze to recharge them.

I wish other people cared about nature a little more. On top of the top grading the prior owner killed an oak with a 15' circumference due to dozing a road and putting in gravel 15 feet from the...

My basic plan i have come up with so far is to identify the keepers - oak, sugar maple, cherry, etc. and open them up on one side by taking out a undesirable tree. I also want to start taking out...

We recently purchased our property and I have spent a lot of time walking it and getting a feel for the land and forest. About 15 years ago it was logged heavily and it was all done on a top grading...

Boiled my sap today. Ended up just shy of a gallon and a half. It was too cold again today and nothing was running. Next week looks good.

Sap was not running today. Too cold today or too warm yesterday?
Just about every tap was dry or had 1/8 cup of sap.

Below freezing now, hopefully it recharges the trees.

Got 20 More gallons of sap today. Sugar content was a little lower. 2.5% from the yard/field maples, everything else averaged 2% with the reds running under 2 and the sugars just over 2%.

Should...

The forecast has the daytime highs above freezing every day for the next 14 days. Should have a good run. I collected about 30 gallons from the past 2 days. Half the trees are running great and the...

20 More taps are in for a total of 40.

35 sugar maples and 5 red or silvers. I have a Hydrometer on its way to check the sap for sugar content. I have some thinning to do in a few areas and I...

Check the file size. My phone takes large pictures and does the motion pictures by default. They show as jpg but wouldn't upload. I had to go to the picture and save a still image. That cut the...

Close up of the silver bark. 17435

Here is a picture of the actual tree in question. It's al most 30" dbh but has multiple trunks. 17432

Here is a 14" dbh red and 14"dbh sugar. These are easy and I could verify with the buds. The...

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This is what the bark looks like. I will get a good picture during the day.

I know the easy answer is to check the leaves in the summer, but that ship has sailed. This is a new property to us and I didn't plan ahead. I am pretty good at Identifying sugar maples in winter...

I know it's early, but I put in my 20 taps Saturday morning and by Sunday I had 15 gallons of sap.

Tapped 18 sugars and 2 large reds. The 2 red maples gave me less than half a gallon of sap...