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    I usually average sugar content in WV of 1.75% for the season and this year it is about 1.5%. I would guess the vacuum is really making your sugar content a lot lower. So far this year I have got about 5100 gallon of sap from about 630 taps on gravity but would guess with a properly designed vac system, I could have gotten 12,000+ gallon of sap but expect the sugar content would have been 1% or less. I would guess the vac is contributing to the low sugar content at least this year. We had an absolute ton of rain for 3 weeks in the prime of the season and they trees were drinking up all the rain water with just a few very minor freezes and the vac was probably just sucking up the rain water.
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  2. #22
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    Bradon ,

    Tx 4 the info , it helps a little to see other are seeing similar conditions with the sugar content. This has always been a hot topis , does the vac lower the over all sugar level? I have listened to a lot of people who claim it makes no difference but I always see higher brix with the vac off. Twice the volume and half the sugar , what is the point in boling twice as long for the same amount of syrup .....

    There was a lot of rain for sure

    ED
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