The Maine maple season has started!!!!!

[Atgreene]

Ran yesterday, running good today thus far. Tapped 40 more buckets and some odds and ends on tubing the last few days, it's not over.

[Revi]

It ain't over until the fat lady sings. She's not singing until the middle of next week...

[Maple Ridge]

She sang at my place. Sunday I could see the trees budding and the last batch was off flavor so I had to dump it. As we all know the weather just wasn't with some of us. Sugar Houses in the higher elevations are going strong from what I hear from the people who been there. O well hope for a better year next year.

[gmcooper]

We are still going strong. Had 2 good runs last 2 days. Last nights syrup was lighter than past several days. Sugar content has slowly dropped. Sap has been crystal clear. Looks like we will make it thru the weekend no problem. looks like syrup total will be average.

[Revi]

We pulled the red maples, but the season doesn't look like it's quite over yet with the cold coming in next week. We are making some for ourselves now, and boiled off yesterday so that we wouldn't have any sap to spoil the last couple of days of warm weather. We are catching up to last year now, and it may be an okay year after all!

[hambone]

We boiled off about 300 gallons of sap on Thursday to try and clean up the sap before the warm spell. It ran that night so we have about 40 gallons of sap with ice jugs in the tank. I agree probably time to pull the reds and gearing up for next week. Bring it on!

[RollinsOrchards]

We have blown last years totals out of the water and should easily make as much as the last two years combined. We could flirt with a quart of syrup per tap yield if the next week runs as good as it could.

Currently 205 gallons of finished syrup from 1200 or so taps, mostly on gravity pipeline, and enough buckets to remind me to buy more pipeline.