Western New York

[Tonk8it]

My smaller trees have been dripping and my large trees are just starting. I think you're right Monday and Tuesday and I think I am done here my trees are almost full bloom.

I have a walk in cooler at my disposal so I keep it there till I can cook it.

Still haven't gone to my other property to find my buckets. I don't want to know how many I lost.

[wnybassman]

Had collected 80 gallons this morning and fired up late morning. Had a nice steady flow of visitors today, always nice! Sap has been running since 10:00 or so, so that will give my dad something to do tomorrow. Looks like I have Wednesday off from work, which might be very be good!

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Had collected 80 gallons this morning and fired up late morning. Had a nice steady flow of visitors today, always nice! Sap has been running since 10:00 or so, so that will give my dad something to do tomorrow. Looks like I have Wednesday off from work, which might be very be good!

Do you host for Maple Weekend?

[wnybassman]

Do you host for Maple Weekend?

No, just an open invite for friends and family today

[bowtie]

Just finished emptying pans and giving them a once over , had to start a fire just to thaw them, going to clean collecting tanks tomorrow, hoping to get something to boil in the afternoon. My few yards trees are just barely dripping. The stuff I pulled out of my pans is dark, I am starting to boil it down, but with 12-15 gallons it will take a while on my little finisher, not going to bother with my 2x4 finisher today, maybe tomorrow. At least giving the pans a quick cleaning today will help make the end of the season clean up faster.

[Waynehere]

Got 250 gal, mostly overnight. Boiled that in tonight. Hoping for a good run the next couple of days. Seems the trees were just starting to run good tonight, but think we will get a hard enough freeze to shut them down for the night.

[Urban Sugarmaker]

I don't recall seeing this article posted before but this seems consistent with what most people are reporting about low sugar sap.

http://stlawrence.cce.cornell.edu/ho...thirsty-maples

[millscrest]

Nice article

[Urban Sugarmaker]

Went through 285 gallons last night. The sweet in the pan was dark and then it lightened back up. I think I am still making medium. Taps were still running last night so we will see what I have tonight. Looking forward to another hard freeze to catch up on bottling.

[Waynehere]

We boiled in 220 last night too. Went out and found just about all of my taps were loose, probably from the long deep freeze. Did a lot of tonking to tighten them up. Got another 250 overnight. Will see what the day brings on top of that. Tried some of the CV spouts on 2 of my tanks this year and already I am seeing a difference on the quantity and quality of the sap for those runs. My lowest tap count, about 56, is way out producing my 69 taps without the CV's. Hmmm....