Central Ontario Tapping

[Hkb82]

Bottled 10L last night. Back at it today. I should have some pretty full pails. I had a large amount of niter in the bottom of this last run. More then I am use to. My first batch had nothing compared to the one last night. Sure make for some slow filtering.

[Galena]

Hehe sounds like our sap tsunami is finally hitting you! Enjoy the late nights and countless amounts of sap! :-)

[Run Forest Run!]

Thanks Susan. Before I had to call it quits due to weather today I had collected 92L from 28 taps. I'll have to empty them ASAP tomorrow morning because the forecast is looking good for Round Two.

[Galena]

..Before I had to call it quits due to weather today I had collected 92L from 28 taps.

Yep that sounds like a sap tsunami to me! Maybe I'll come up with a design for it :-)

[Hkb82]

Ya that sucks Karen. I don’t finish on the stove for that very reason. I use a Colman stove with LP gas or a turkey fryer when I am finishing over 10L of syrup. Still glad to hear your boiling sap these days. More to come for those in Ontario that have not yet got their fill for the season. Had the stove fired up at 5am today. A new record for me. Going to boil everything down today that is in the tanks plus maybe grab what’s in the bush I hope.

[sinker]

Hey folks, first time checking in here this year. Still tapped here just south of PTBO.

Tapped on Feb 20th. Collected 380l of sap by Feb. 28th and finished 9.5l.

Nothing to collect from Feb. 28th, until March 28th. Crazy!!!

Since march 28th, i have collected 535L of sap, and finished 10.5L.

We have some still to finish, and evaporator is full, just need to get enough for one last boil this week. Sap is still running clear, all our shady trees are still running good, sunny trees kind of slowed down and a few with cloudy sap. Our bush is mostly shaded though.

Oh, I have 46 taps on buckets. I'm hoping for a busy week, but its been a weird season so far, with unpredictable flows! See what happens I guess. I'm hoping to get a bit more, but also hope it ends this week lol

S.

[Stevenick]

Crazy weather, yesterday we had 2300 l of sap, no boil since last Thursday! Hoping today it finally starts running again. No signs of budding our woods. We have run 151000l of sap since feb 19. Produced 1950l of amber syrup. Hoping for a couple of boils to finish the year off.

[Run Forest Run!]

Crazy weather indeed! I gathered some sap yesterday and hope that the temperatures start to cooperate better. I'm itching to get some serious boiling done this season.