Too early. Early to mid February is when I'm tapping
Too early. Early to mid February is when I'm tapping
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Just made some calculations. Test buckets put out Monday , Average 2.5gal per tap as of today. Sap tested at 2.25 or 38.22 to one all hard maples. I will have 360 taps out this year, so that is 20 gal of syrup conservative for this run, vacuum would have pulled more. Wonder if we should't reconsider these warming trends and stop looking at the calender? What are your thoughts?
Maple Syrup producer of 40+years
320 taps on vacuum all hard maple
3x12 Lapierre evaporator
South Madison
I am still new and and less than 10 trees but I have tapped early and I know Lake Farm Park tapped early last year. The tree in my back yard yesterday I had to empty twice and it is a 5 gallon container it has 3 taps and is 74 inch diameter I will not know if it was a bad idea to tap early until season is over and I did post a good article earlier about tapping early in the season let me know what u think but loving no snow and warmer weather
Suppose to be in the 60s this Saterday sap will be flowing like water
I tapped in on Sunday and the sap hasn't stop running since Monday evening. Vacuumed has pulled in around 1300 gallons of 2% sap. Making medium amber. Unfortunately, due to my real job I'm playing catch up boiling it in. Glad I took the risk and tapped, well so far anyway.
Matthew Cross
Madison, Ohio
400 taps on vacuum with surge sp-22
200 buckets
30 x 10 leader max
w/ enhanced steam away and Pre-heater
Still holding off. In the past, when I've tapped in mid-January, my holes had dried up earlier than others who tapped later on in Feb.
To each his own
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I am waiting also, to warm to early. Feb looks more like my kind of sugaring temps . Hope some of the temps go up a couple degrees. Going to tap in around Feb. 1 or just before a warm day.
Maple Syrup producer of 40+years
320 taps on vacuum all hard maple
3x12 Lapierre evaporator
South Madison
Most likely early February for me to.
12X16 Sugarhouse and 16x24 attached woodshed
1000 taps
120 3/16 tubing
And still some buckets
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I tapped today, flowing nice. Will let my lines clear out today/tonight and I'll be ready to go! 2017 added another 25-30 taps on tubing (Thanks to Jason Grossman @ Grossman Brothers) All told I total 185.
Looking forward to spending a little more time in the sugar house this season.
Started with 5 taps boiling on cinder blocks and a pan from my kitchen..
200+ Taps Gravity lines with 2x6 Lapierre
New 16x20 Sugar House
6 acres in Concord, Ohio
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cleaned up the sugarhouse and storage tanks yesterday, made 28 gallons of syrup over the last couple days. Hoping for a good freeze to reset the trees. all in all glad I tapped in...well so far
Matthew Cross
Madison, Ohio
400 taps on vacuum with surge sp-22
200 buckets
30 x 10 leader max
w/ enhanced steam away and Pre-heater