Tapped in Hanson

[MikeR]

25 taps on buckets, all reds. I put them in back on 1/22 and got about 4.5 gallons in the first week and then everything dried up. It looks like they have started running a bit in the last day or so, but its certainly not very much. Last year was my first attempt and this year seems to be going in a similar fashion - get a few gallons one week, get nothing for a another week. I'm wondering if it's weather related (seems like the weather has been fine) or just temperamental swamp maples. I seem to be one of the few guys on here chiming in from the southeast part of the state, so I'll update this in case there are any other of us lurking around.

[mike103]

Just out of curiousity, did you get a mid week run on your reds? I'm only about 20 miles from you so we share weather. My bucket trees I'm only getting about half gallon per tap per day on about 50% of the trees that run. The rest are dry do far.... snow seems to stopped things for now....

[MikeR]

I did. So I'm tapping 13 trees right now, and I would say I had about 6 or 7 actually producing anything up until Thursday (flow was very slow the week prior). Since then, I have had a couple more start running and I definitely noticed an uptick in flow from the ones that were already running. It was surprising to me that even in the cold, stormy weather of the last couple days, things are actually still moving a modest pace.

[MikeR]

My swamp maples are really running down here now, I would say I got about 5 or 6 gallons in the last couple days. Spent most of the day yesterday boiling and ended up with a nice little jar of syrup. Looks like things are going to shut down for a while with this warm weather coming up.

[Barkpeeler]

my first year tapping in Pembroke I have 5 taps so far, got 3.5 gallons last week and just yesterday and this morning got another 3.5 gallons boiling it down today I'll put out some more taps this week and see what happens.

[MikeR]

If this is your first boil, good luck! I've boiled three times total (this is my second year after a short attempt last year) and it's a learning experience every time.

[MikeR]

Put in about 30 taps in my reds yesterday, all on buckets. I noticed that by 4:00 PM just about all of them had started running. I tapped some new trees this year and eliminated a few slow ones, so I'll probably watch the new ones for a week or so and maybe add a few more taps if they are productive.

[tgormley358]

My swamp maples are really running down here now, I would say I got about 5 or 6 gallons in the last couple days. Spent most of the day yesterday boiling and ended up with a nice little jar of syrup. Looks like things are going to shut down for a while with this warm weather coming up.

Mike, and others, I haven’t tried tapping swamp maples but I have a few. I hadn’t heard or read of anyone tapping them, so what’s been your experience, quantity and quality of the sap, sugar content?

[Barkpeeler]

I tap in my yard and my son puts out an additional 10 taps in wet lands, they put out just as much as the ones in my yard,quality is fine, but not sure of the sugar content

[MikeR]

I jumped in yesterday. Twenty gravity taps in lowland reds.