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    Should market saplings from those trees!
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    And I thought the 5.7 we saw today was good....that's just plain impressive!
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    • 2018 - 24 Taps / 20 Gal. Syrup
    • 2017 - 18 Taps + 7 Taps added Mid-Season / 15 Gal. Syrup
    • 2016 - 18 Taps added Mid-Season / 5.25 Gal. Syrup
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    Woke up to 2000 gallons in the tank. Sap is still trickling in a bit. Testing 2.2% this morning. Sunday it should run again.

    Spud

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    i had a pretty dismal run yesterday. it set up to look like excellent conditions to run, but only got less than a gallon per tap. probably something to do with the 3' of snow still hugging the trees. However, the rings at the base are started! got some pretty heavy sugar snow coming down right now!
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    Dr. Tim is that really reading almost 10% raw sap? Can't be. I must be missing something.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrTimPerkins View Post
    Philip Young, a teacher at Essex Middle School, in Essex, VT, sent me this photo earlier today of the sugar content in the sap bucket from one of their trees. They do a unit on maple. This is straight from the tree - NOT concentrate. He's called me in the past to talk about the sweet trees there. You don't find them like this real often.

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    Unreal. I ran into Philip at CDL last week and we were talking about his high numbers. Also said he had red maples that were regularly running 3%. Is it possible there are dissolved solids other than sugar being measured there? Would be interesting to test the composition.

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    Just pumped 50 gallons from the recent run and was shockingly surprised to have 3% sugar.

    About 1 gpt for 41 road tree taps on 3/16 and 7 yard buckets.

    Snowing and barely running now.

    I was pleasantly surprised to collect 2.6% last weekend.

    Last year I didn't measure sugar on the first run, but later runs were 2.3% and below.
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    after todays boil im at about 1/2 crop, .25gpt is full crop for me in my all gravity setup, forcast looks promising! could do without with snow though

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    We had 1.7gpt as of yesterday when I got home from work, and then got another .4 gpt overnight. RO took 265 gallons of water out and we boiled our 10% until 1230 last night, made a little over 9.5 gallons. This is good for our small op, and we even made some golden delicate, a first for us. Made for a long day at work on 2 hrs of sleep though!
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    Quote Originally Posted by TapTapTap View Post
    3rd boil of season. And, our first barrel ever.
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    Hi Ken! I bought your lapierre junior, its working great for us! Glad to see you are having a good season!
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