Western New York

[TEC]

Same here. I’m glad I waited to shut down. I boiled over 150 gallons on each of the last 3 days. I made mostly dark. It has wonderful flavor. I’m going to boil after work tomorrow and then shut down for the year.

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Just finished today. I got 800 gallons since the beginning of the week. I ended up with a little over 75 gallons for the season. I had hoped to make 100. Glad I held on and glad to be done.

[TEC]

After a 40 year hiatus we made 12 gallons of syrup on a Mason 2x3 and 70 taps. We learned a lot and will add another 50 taps next year. Also, fewer buckets and more 3/16 tubing!

[treehugger89]

Finally done. Pulled taps today and have to finish/bottle 8 gallons of syrup. Finished the season with 57 gallons of syrup. How did everyone else’s season go?

[Bellehollow]

We pulled ours Monday. Long season so glad to be done!

We finished with 100 gallons and all tasted great! We started light, darkened up bid season then finished light.

[plattmaple]

End of the year numbers for us. First boil Feb.18 , last boil Mar 22. We ended up with 424 gallons of syrup from 2100 taps. Was disappointed we didn't hit at least 500 gal. We never had a big run this year. A couple of good runs, but no really big run. It was just too cold for so long then right into too warm with no freezing. We went from north pole weather Sunday March 13th to to no freezing again until March 30th. By then it was too late for us. Some other area producers kept going and made some more syrup into April. Our last run tested 1.1% and we weren't interested in processing any more of that. For the year we were usually around 1.6 to 1.8
Almost all of our syrup was Amber with our last barrel dark. Interestingly we only boiled 22 hours this year. I picked up a 1000gph RO last April that made that possible. I remember years past, pre RO, we had some one day boils that were 18,19 hours by themselves!
For next year we plan on replacing all of our drops on 3/16th and in the main bush with vacuum, I would like to work on running more mainline and cutting down on the number of taps per line. And maybe adding a couple hundred more taps if possible. LOL
Still working on clean up.

[82cabby]

I rarely tap this early, Normally I go all in late February, but I have to admit the 10 day forecast is pretty tempting. The long range is projecting a cold February through….

[wnybassman]

I rarely tap this early, Normally I go all in late February, but I have to admit the 10 day forecast is pretty tempting. The long range is projecting a cold February through….

I'm not touching a drill before Feb. 1st

[pathfinder22]

Looking at the long range forecast, this is how I see my dates for tapping.......
Subject to change at any time, but its a target date non the less....Stafford, NY Monthly Weather _ AccuWeather.jpg

[wnybassman]

Looking at the long range forecast, this is how I see my dates for tapping.......
Subject to change at any time, but its a target date non the less....Attachment 22751

That's my target as well. But, the 2nd week of February is kind of average "go time" anyway.