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    New to this maple hobby, but clearly addicted. I have learned a lot from this forum and friends who have done this for a long time. I put about 50+ taps in during that warm stretch in February. Buckets, pails, water jugs, and just about anything I could find to collect sap. Taps ran ok, although I don't know what a good run is per tap per day. Slowed in March and had hopes of a good run about a week ago. Not so much. All intentions of pulling taps today after work and calling it a season, most pails and buckets have sap. Cold snowy/rainy day and there is sap. Beautiful day yesterday, hardly any. Confused beyond words, so Im guessing leave them in and sees what happens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Page Meadow Maple View Post
    Curious how many gallons you picked up. I am a bit north and east of Bangor. Picked up 36 gallons off 80 taps. 3 Brix. Wondering when people think the season will be over up here.
    Only 40 gallons off 210 taps at just over 1% sugar content. 90% of my taps are red maples, so I expect them to not be as productive as sugars, but usually not this slow. What few sugars I have to tap have been doing decent. Still have quite a few that have not thawed out yet. Still lots of snow in woods. 36 gallons off 80 taps at 3% sounds good to me!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jal-Bear View Post
    Only 40 gallons off 210 taps at just over 1% sugar content. 90% of my taps are red maples, so I expect them to not be as productive as sugars, but usually not this slow. What few sugars I have to tap have been doing decent. Still have quite a few that have not thawed out yet. Still lots of snow in woods. 36 gallons off 80 taps at 3% sounds good to me!
    I think it will come. I have 225 taps on 5/16 gravity and have gotten 200 gallons since the first of March. Last year I would have had 1000 gallons. Yes, it will be warm for a few days, but my bush does not face south so I think after that I will have more than I can handle coming in. Trees haven't shown any signs of opening their bud around me.

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    My trees, norways 1.2%, reds 1.5, sugars 2%. Once sap is all mixed together in the head tank I get a reading of 1.8%. 70 norway taps, 80 reds and 280 sugar taps. 127 gallons of syrup so far this year. Couple more runs to go maybe?
    Last edited by Dale Sparrow; 04-05-2017 at 05:26 AM.

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