2018 Season

[helptheold]

If you want some more sap...I have some decent trees in my yard i didn't tap. I could bump your sap total up 30-50 gallons. I have taps and buckets....and can deliver . I also still have my 3/16 lines going...just emptying onto the ground. I could easily get you 100 gallons but the sugar is so low it wouldnt be worth your time.

Naw, without having a RO it's not worth it My taps were dripping this morning and tasted fine so I'll go out later and get enough to boil down to test.

[HowardR]

Lots of sap. 1% sugar. Cloudy which means the syrup will be dark. I'm boiling a bit up on my stove now to see if the syrup flavor is good.

[HowardR]

The sap that I boiled down tastes fine. There may be just a hint of a buddy flavor.

[helptheold]

Only got about 1/2 gallon but it tastes fine after boiling. The buds on the one tree I can actually reach the branches on are nice and tight so I've got my fingers crossed for this weekend!

[sticknstring]

Did some rabbit hunting this afternoon up at the ground, collected from the 3 buckets, got a little over a gallon of nice clear sap. Couple warm days coming up, but temps look great for quite a few days starting this weekend, eh? Thanks for the well wishes Dennis! Good luck everybody!

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[Paddymountain]

Managed to gather about 150 gallons of 2 percent today, got it boiled and made a little syrup.
Weather starting to look promising after Saturday. Hopefully it will extend the season a week more!

[HowardR]

This week is perfect maple syrup weather. There's even an unpredicted frost happening right now. Almost every night this week will be below freezing and I'm doing my best to make as much syrup as I can. I'm even moving taps to new holes in some of my trees.

[Dennis H.]

I'll have to let you know how yesterdays cold night has helped when I run up in the morning to collect the sap. I wanted to run up this past evening to check on things but had other things to complete and ran out of time, so in the morning will have to do. Would be nice in a way to see it overflowing but sad to think of what I may loose to the ground.

Right now the temps up there are again below 32 so 2 nights in a row of freezing temps! Things are looking up.

[Paddymountain]

Still hanging in, got about 130 gallons of sap today, kind of surprising.
finished up early tonight, and pretty sure now we will make it to cold weather. I put my buckets out last Tuesday and
I think they will keep on pumping, 3/16 tubing running fairly good considering the temps. wood pile at 50 percent
energy level slipping a little!

[sticknstring]

Just getting ready to leave ground now. It got into the 60s tuesday, i collected a lil over a gallon from 3 taps, 2 old and 1 new tuesday afternoon after less than a day of putting buckets back out. Got below freezing tuesday night, back to 60 yesterday and down to 40 last night. Only got about a half gallon from tuesday afternoon to this morning. Hopin like heck things get back started this weekend and next week with the daily freeze thaw that is forecasted for at least 9 days. I should have tapped a couple more trees monday night, but i didnt want to put holes in trees so late in the season when it seems as if the season may be over. Hope you all found full buckets!