Northern Wisconsin. 2017

[jbelany]

Things are still looking good in Ashland County. Over the last three days we have gathered 2 gallons per tap on bags. Sap is nice and clear yet. Garage was empty by Monday morning, three cans now full and weather looks good for more to be hauled. Probably a couple of nights of burning the midnight oil!

Joe

[Rhino]

Tuesdays 60 degree temps. Yielded a gallon a tap on bags. Have to finish collecting this morning yet then with the cooler temps I will let bags fill up (hopefully ) and do a last collection saturday. Yesterday's run was spotty for me. Some taps good... some nothing.

[Rhino]

Finished what I had left of the bags to do at noon. With temps only getting to 31 last night all taps were just not doing much. I have a feeling saturday will be just a tap and bag pulling day with no collection. Will be a poor year for me. Neighbor to my woods on high vacuum is at half a crop so that kinda tells a story on how bags/buckets did in our area.

[Jeff E]

Hi gang, it has been a while.
I echo all the comments, as of now, I am at about 50-60% of an average year. I did tap 1/2 my woods, about 1200 taps, in Mid Feb and made about 150 gallons of syrup in Feb. That was a first.
Last 3 days pulling about 1/2 gallon per tap per day. Sugar has dropped from 2.1 to 1.6. All medium and dark syrup. Good flavors, so I'm happy with the quality.
Maybe freeze tonight?!?!

One positive for me, the syrup has been really clean. not much niter, easy filtering.

I plan on going through the weekend with vac running, and deciding on Sunday night if I keep it on for next week.

Best of luck with a strong finish, and a easy clean up.

[Diesel Pro]

Finished what I had left of the bags to do at noon. With temps only getting to 31 last night all taps were just not doing much. I have a feeling saturday will be just a tap and bag pulling day with no collection. Will be a poor year for me. Neighbor to my woods on high vacuum is at half a crop so that kinda tells a story on how bags/buckets did in our area.

I'm seeing 30° tonight, 25° Friday night and 30° Saturday night forecast for Merrill WI.

[Rhino]

Was hoping for adequate sap in the bags the last 2 days but wasn't meant to be. I'm gonna pull the pin tomorrow and finish off what's in the evaporator. Holds 200 gallons of concentrate and usually flat pans off 40 gallons of syrup. Next year i gotta get line system back up and running. To much time spent chasing around the woods for not much yield.

[markcasper]

If I were you I wouldn't be so quick to throw in the towel, I think there'd be more especially that far north. I have not heard a frog yet down here, so that should be encouraging. And absolutely no bud or anything off flavor as of Friday morning down here, that may change quickly, but so far nothing.

[Austin351]

Sap finally broke loose here today, first real run I've seen this year. At this rate, thinking bags will be over a gallon in 24hrs or less.

[TwoSaps]

Sap is still running pretty well up here in the far north. Collected 90 gallons on 35 taps to buckets last week. Sap nice and clear, made 2.5 gallons of tasty, dark amber syrup on Saturday. Final yield was reduced a bit when I spilled at least a quart of liquid gold into the fire. Waaaaahhhhhh! Not quite like losing a child, but . . .

[Jeff E]

This morning I heard a single peeper at 6am.
I will be listening tonight...

Sugar content on vacuum dropped again. 1.3 % yesterday. Ouch.
Not sure how I feel about making syrup that may be buddy at a 67 to 1 ratio!