Originally Posted by
spud
Are you seeing buds on the sugar maples? I am hoping we will go to the 20th up here at the border. Sap should run well today and I am still at 2%.
Spud
Seeing swollen buds on the sugar maples and the red maples are very large. Last boil tonight. Should be some real, real dark stuff coming off!
As Dr Tim pointed to, those 70+ degree days with hot sun early really moved things along for us.
Couple that with the drought over the last two years / two mild winters and sugar content was really poor as well.
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3X8 D&G with airtight arch, hood and preheater. - 400 Vacuum and 435 gravity. 16X24 sugarhouse. Deer Run 250 RO. DG 7" filter press. Grew up with maple. At 18 months old my Dad frost bit me when in a baby carrier while we were tapping in South Reading, VT...1954 Ferguson with trailer for Sap Collection, JD 850 and a 64 international scout woods buggy.
Pulan Pruning saw, Husky Rancher 455, and Stihl 064av to tame the woods.