How long do we have?

[Mike Van]

Sometimes it does depend on where you drilled the tree, some trees i've tapped for 25+ years will fill a bucket one year, do half pails the next - By tapping early, I made some 30+ gallons of syrup, mostly light & medium. The hot weather we've had has changed my last boils to really dark, o.k. if thats what you like - I have far more people ask for light & medium - Some years ago I had syrup go from medium back to light due to a long cold snap. The maple business can leave you with a lot of second guessing of what you do - The old saying of 'make hay while the sunshines' can be turned into 'make syrup while the sap runs' The only regret I would have is tapping so late you missed most of it.

[Woodsrover]

Boiled all day yesterday. Sap was super thin, syrup was super dark. Unless this weather makes a drastic change in the sap yesterday was probably my last boil. :/

[DaveB]

The upcoming weather pattern looks pretty ideal. After a mid-week warm-up we go back into the freezer this weekend and several chances for storms over the next few weeks as well. As others have said, if we can get into a more prolonged period of freezing and thawing, I think the sugar content should come up.

http://www.weather.us/newWindow.php?x=CT_HARTFORD

Tomorrow night looks like the only night that we won't go below freezing but after that it's 10s and 20s through next week. It doesn't get any better than that!

[lafite]

dripping slowly today. I tested the sugar and it's back just above 2%

[Helicopter Seeds]

Tomorrow night looks like the only night that we won't go below freezing but after that it's 10s and 20s through next week. It doesn't get any better than that!

For here, not supposed to freeze tonight, and not until Thursday night. I expect OK flow on my collection tonight, and good tomorrow since we had such a deep freeze, just hoping it holds until these 'steady cycles' for what it is worth, 2 weeks ago, the long term prediction for March had every day looking ideal freeze/ thaw. Now that we are here, those cycles are longer. we shall see...

[DaveB]

For here, not supposed to freeze tonight, and not until Thursday night. I expect OK flow on my collection tonight, and good tomorrow since we had such a deep freeze, just hoping it holds until these 'steady cycles' for what it is worth, 2 weeks ago, the long term prediction for March had every day looking ideal freeze/ thaw. Now that we are here, those cycles are longer. we shall see...

If you're referring to the Accuweather forecasts, they really don't look at anything beyond 7 days in much detail and since the models only go out 14 days, they really don't look at anything beyond that every day. That's why I look at the ensemble model forecast and just look at the mean value. You can see the spread gets wider as time goes out but it can help to see trends and then apply it for your area.

Like you said, I guess we'll see how things work out.

[Woodsrover]

Checked the sap I was boiling this weekend. 1.2%
Checked the sap that was dripping today. 1.2%
A lot of work for coffee colored syrup. I'll probably dump this and see what happens later in the week.

[Sugar Bear]

I noticed some trees budding in Middlebury this morning but I believe the real end of the season is signaled when the moths arrive....no moths yet so 1 or 2 more runs.

I saw moths back in January.

[sr73087]

Anyone pull their taps yet? I haven't gotten anything even after last weekend. I think I am done. Forecast going forward looks go though, but is it too little too late?

[BSD]

Anyone pull their taps yet? I haven't gotten anything even after last weekend. I think I am done. Forecast going forward looks go though, but is it too little too late?

we had a solid run yesterday. i was surprised to see it actually. I'm holding on until the bitter end since i got a late start