Quote Originally Posted by paulslund View Post
Wow Galena. I only had a few smaller sugars tapped this year and they've all dried up. My big silvers were pulled last weekend (actually about 10 days ago) as they were started to get the buddy smell.. I left two taps in my sugars for fun and I may have 10 liters between the two of them over the past9 days.. using 5/16 this year..maybe they close up sooner? Are you on 5/16 or 7/16? But you sure are getting a great ratio! I calculate about 30:1!! And your color contrast between batches is really cool!
Hehe thanks Paul :-) All my trees are sugars and most of them are pretty **** big sugars. I'm a bad person, still on 7/16ths - I did try the 5/16ths but all they did was fall out of the trees. And very happy with my syrup colours and the ratio, I figured it had to be about 30:1... think some were around 28:1 and 29:1.

Think I will pull spiles today except on the 2-3 trees that are absolute diehards. I'm just done, in all senses of the word, and have to get on with my life.