Checking what VT sugar makers are doing

[GeneralStark]

Yes here too. The lines froze but I'm not sure the trees did. Either way it hopefully helped slow the inevitable onset of bud break. It has fortunately been staying cool here with continued decent sap flow. Over 1 gpt in 24 hours without a freeze since Thursday night. Going to clean today and get ready to boil tomorrow am and see how the syrup tastes. I'm hoping to make some good dark syrup as I have only made some dark amber and very little real dark robust.

[Mead Maple]

34 when I left Middlesex this morning on my way to Newport for a course. Hit 29 and snowing on my way through Barton. Roads got a little hairy and there is definitely a lot more snow coming up through Greensboro. They will be sugar i g there until June!
We pulled the plug this past Sunday. Out of wood and ambition to continue boiling at 13gph. Blew our 3 gallon goal out of the water but won’t have a final tally until we bottle. Good luck to everyone!


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[DrTimPerkins]

34 when I left Middlesex this morning on my way to Newport for a course. Hit 29 and snowing on my way through Barton. Roads got a little hairy and there is definitely a lot more snow coming up through Greensboro. They will be sugaring there until June!

Welcome to the Northeast Kingdom! Yup...we got snow, and more snow, then even more snow. Grew up in Barton...now living in Newport. Seemed to snow at least a little every day all winter. Just a few inches a day doesn't seem like much until it happens every day for a few months. Snowbanks were up to the light on the lightpost in the driveway (6' up). Snowdrift out our back door over 6' high, then up over the hedge and nearly 8' high on the neighbors lawn. Melted back to only 4' high today. Yes...sugaring has just started up here and will probably continue a good bit longer. Drove down to NYC to do a presentation and to visit the daughter a week and a half back - by the time we got to White River Jctn it seemed almost tropical.

[tcross]

i'm in Derby and i still have a snow bank up to the eaves on my sugar house. i'm only at around 1200-1250 feet and there's still 2.5 feet of snow in the woods. better than the 4' we had 3 weeks ago. i've been having excellent sugar content and the runs now are starting to go very well! i'm at 1/2 my crop for the year, so it should be another good year up here. hopefully another 2 weeks left!

[spud]

i'm in Derby and i still have a snow bank up to the eaves on my sugar house. i'm only at around 1200-1250 feet and there's still 2.5 feet of snow in the woods. better than the 4' we had 3 weeks ago. i've been having excellent sugar content and the runs now are starting to go very well! i'm at 1/2 my crop for the year, so it should be another good year up here. hopefully another 2 weeks left!

Went down to 29 degrees at midnight and all my woods froze. Sap slowed down late yesterday to just 100 GPH. Sap is now running 375 GPH and should run till 10:00pm before we freeze hard again. Two more weeks easy.

Spud

[hogisland42]

Checked my woods when I went home at lunch. Lines and releaser are still frozen. Was snowing pretty hard but seems to be switching to rain now. Still only 32 degrees. Doesn't look like any sap today.

[Ultimatetreehugger]

1400 gallons of 2.4% sap today at 33 degrees, cold northern wind, and a snow storm. What a weird day for a good run.

[spud]

Got another 3000 gallons yesterday. Right now at 6:00 am it's 25 degrees and one inch of fresh snow on the ground. Going to be cold today so I not sure if the sap will run.

[tcross]

my 200 trees gave up 125 gallons yesterday with a high of 34 wind and snow... weird indeed!

[GiddingsHill]

Did a little better than 1gal/tap yesterday between 10am and 8pm when it stopped dead. I think it'll break loose today even if its marginal weather, these trees want to run!