Anyone else not getting the flows they would expect?

[lafite]

I think the season is coming to an end. Once the buds come out...game over.

[Agent914]

I am thinking the 2012 season will be short due to lack of snow and higher than norm temps combined with a basically dry winter and low sugar readings :/

Last year (2011) the flow was great, I had to empty the buckets every day (very cold). I would drump the ice when it built up and the boiling time was shorter with higher yields.


Agent914

[Brokermike]

I have the flow but my sugar is really low!

[thecabinguy]

Seems like most of us in lower New England are experiencing poor sap flows this year. I think the extremely mild winter that we've experienced has really diminished the sap volume. I think we may have had about one solid week this winter of ground freeze in early January. A friend of mine cuts trees for a living and says many maples were pouring out sap in mid January. Looks like I missed that. I'm looking at trees producing a few cups of sap in a week. I'm already writing this year off. I think mother nature has had her way with us this season. I'm glad some people are getting some sap. I've been tapped for 2 weeks and have collected about 15 gals of sap off 40 taps. Pathetic. Most of my reds are bone dry. No sap at all. I think they must have all flowed in January. Oh well, there's always next year.

[merryall]

I think you are right about the lack of frost. We did a few thousand feet of fencing in late January and also excavated for the sugarhouse - there was less than 3 inches of frost in the ground on the coldest days and on some days it was less than an inch (in open fields with southern exposure) with the surface thawing during the day and refreezing at night. That said, we collected slightly more than 100 gal of sap from 20 taps in five days in western CT and have about 2 gallons bottled, so we are running close to 50:1.

Seems like most of us in lower New England are experiencing poor sap flows this year. I think the extremely mild winter that we've experienced has really diminished the sap volume. I think we may have had about one solid week this winter of ground freeze in early January. A friend of mine cuts trees for a living and says many maples were pouring out sap in mid January. Looks like I missed that. I'm looking at trees producing a few cups of sap in a week. I'm already writing this year off. I think mother nature has had her way with us this season. I'm glad some people are getting some sap. I've been tapped for 2 weeks and have collected about 15 gals of sap off 40 taps. Pathetic. Most of my reds are bone dry. No sap at all. I think they must have all flowed in January. Oh well, there's always next year.