Nuthin wrong at all with making mistakes, Lesley, it's all part of the process and making syrup is a helluvalot more work than just putting some sap onto boil. Just so long as you take away the gist of what we're telling you (in this case, no more messing with filters during syruping!) and learn from it, then you can add that to your repertoire. FWIW I usually put a syruping batch in the setup I have, then go to bed so I'm not distracted and tempted to fiddle with it :-D
Of course, a lot of us are probably secretly jealous of the astounding amounts of sap/syrup you've gotten this year - that's really an accomplishment in itself. But we all have different bushes of varying size and age and sub-species of maple, in different climatic zones and subjected to varying weather patterns. So I'm very happy with what my grand total of 24 taps have done and are doing now - #6 is now giving #5 and #2 a serious run for their money, and I know when #6 kicks into gear, there's no turning back!
Well must get back to supervising a batch of sap boiling away...and check your inbox ;-)
Last edited by Galena; 04-04-2015 at 09:19 PM.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
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