Could carry on for awhile, Lesley. The Sisters of Diddly-Squat suddenly gushing forth? Well, tree #9 - who is like my George Harrison tree, definitely there but not calling attention to himself (during Beatles phase obviously) - but now giving superstar #6 a run her money. Ditto #1 is now challenging #2. And #5 is still chugging along in the middle as it usually does this time of the run.
I'm guessing, but as your trees are all quite a bit smaller than mine, I'm guessing that they may stop fairly gradually? Mine started a bit later than yours and only just got up to steam last week, so I think they could just blow out any time by next weekend....ETA as they indeed did, went from 20l down to 2.5l overnight. So mine are likely to just hit the brakes, but in the meantime have given me between yesterday and today 30l...yet more work...*groan*
Will see what the virgin bush does, though of course it's only 3 trees there compared to your 30. But with only 4 spiles left wondering what there will be, esp as I am currently boiling a virgin batch so should add as much as I can to it....btw I named those trees...#3 there is Big Sugar, cause that's what it is ;-) #2 is a split-trunked red, and one spile would either produce heavily or not at all. The other spile on the other trunk produces consistently. So they are Two Be and Not Two Be. And the #1 tree there is...actually I don't have a name for that one!
Last edited by Galena; 04-13-2015 at 06:19 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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