Perth Lanark

[Farrellfarm]

We tapped in 700 on Sunday using CVs and vacuum. Although we haven't had the time to walk the lines and fix all the vacuum leaks (we're only pulling about 15") we have pulled in around 700 gallons of sap on Monday and Tuesday. We will boil it off tonight and wait for the cold weather to pass. The advantage with CVs is that we can tap earlier and still get the late runs. If you're on buckets you're probably better to wait until this cold snap passes.

We're south of Perth, between Perth and Westport.

[Asthepotthickens]

Made two gallons today, never worked so hard fitting elements but the syrup turned out #1. Beauty

[DrewCP]

Made two gallons today, never worked so hard fitting elements but the syrup turned out #1. Beauty

Nice! What was your ratio?

[Asthepotthickens]

Very close to 37 to 1.

[Asthepotthickens]

Best weekend ever for our small operation, made seven gallons of syrup. Too bad the sap stopped running today nice and warm but it did not freeze last night. Question if we head into a cold week after two warm days and nights, will the sap start to run again?

[DrewCP]

Best weekend ever for our small operation, made seven gallons of syrup. Too bad the sap stopped running today nice and warm but it did not freeze last night. Question if we head into a cold week after two warm days and nights, will the sap start to run again?

Good on you! We are struggling to get sap. Added an extra 15 buckets yesterday to bring us up to 65. In a week we have around 100gal. On the plus side it is all around 3.25%. Still 2+ feet of snow in our bush. I hope that is causing our delayed start. No matter what we will boil on Saturday. Hope to get a little more sap to run but the forecast looks poor.
In response to your question, it is my understanding and experience that yes, the trees will cycle again when we get warm again.

[ennismaple]

The pumps have run for 24 hours since we last gathered and we'll only have 500 or 600 gallons to boil today. Yesterday's syrup was a 31:1 ratio and since I recirculated sap through the RO for a bit before filling the head tank I made 48 gallons of syrup with only 3 hours between first full fire until last fire!

Things haven't really loosened up yet. There's still a lot of snow in our woods, especially on the north facing slopes.

[Asthepotthickens]

One ingredient missing to make syrup, SAP.

[DrewCP]

I hear you. A week of sub zero day / night temps on the way. I have no idea what to expect a week from now..........

[Silverhand]

Nice to see some locals on here. This is my first year tapping our trees. I decided to start with 10 buckets, but I can see things expanding a bit next year . We're in Scotch Corners.