Buds

[Russ008]

Sawsome buds on a small maple in TurnersFalls by the post office. What does that mean?
Does it hurt to get sub freezing temp's after the trees start buding ? Its probably to late to tap when the tree's are buding anyways ? Put out six test taps and the're running. Weather says its going to get above freezing for the next week.Seems like another crazy year.

[mapleman3]

might be over before it starts again this year who knows.. guess I better get crackin on gretting ready, I havn't done a thing yet :?

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

Some maples keep little things on the end of the twigs that look like buds all winter. Nothing to be alarmed about yet unless you have retarded maple trees in New England! 8O 8O 8O ops: ops:

[VA maple guy]

I have a few reds and two silvers that the buds have swelled up, my sugars are ok for now. I sure wish this weather would get back to normal.
I might not get to tap some of my trees if this weather holds. temps are
going to be in the sixties this weekind arround here.
Gerry

[Russ008]

Put out 20 taps thursday & friday, collected about 30 gals of sap, looks like warm weather i'm going to keep putting taps out. Last year we had a long cold spell after winter thaw.

[sweetwoodmaple]

Russ - sent you a PM since email was down.

Thanks,

Brian

[Russ008]

I was trying to log and boil at the same time, don't work, burnt my first batch. Boy the yard smelled good but it was alot of work cleaning the pan. The next gallon came out real nice, sweetest ever, nice color. Made some maple leaf pops to pass out too. I might have taped early but buy the looks of my firewood pile the whole winter has been alittle warm. Ran pretty good a few days last week and lookin at a possible run this week, But the weather made a fool out of me last year, we'll see.

[Russ008]

Sap runs for three days then we have a week to catch up boiling. Seems to be working out ok for me. Hope it doesn't get warm to fast.

[mapleman3]

Anybody in western ma. tap yet? I was told that Pomeroy's out in westfield are serving breakfast and boiling already... I don't know if thats true but it's what I heard, I'm still holding off, maybe by the end of the week here, not sure.

[brookledge]

Pomeroy's has tapped and they were on Channel 22 today. They are a little warmer of an area than I am. I planning on tapping latter in the week on days that warm up over 36.
Keith