Binghamton
I know it's early, but I put in my 20 taps Saturday morning and by Sunday I had 15 gallons of sap.
Tapped 18 sugars and 2 large reds. The 2 red maples gave me less than half a gallon of sap total. Should I keep the taps on the reds or move it to another sugar maple?
Three sugar maples close to my creek gave me over 2 gallons each while others were hit and miss.
I would keep them in. Those Reds are probably in a colder spot and not thawed out like the sugars by the creek.
100-110 buckets
Leader 7.5" 3 Bank filter press (2023)
RO Bucket RB10 (2017) upgraded to RB20 (2020)
Homemade oil tank arch
Homemade stainless pans
12x16 Sugar Shack (new 2020)
20 More taps are in for a total of 40.
35 sugar maples and 5 red or silvers. I have a Hydrometer on its way to check the sap for sugar content. I have some thinning to do in a few areas and I will be testing to help decide which ones to keep.
The forecast has the daytime highs above freezing every day for the next 14 days. Should have a good run. I collected about 30 gallons from the past 2 days. Half the trees are running great and the other half have not thawed.
Got my refractometer yesterday and checked and I am averaging 2.5%. The yard trees are running 3.5%, reds are right around 2% the rest of the sugars are right around 2.5%. I plan on checking individual trees this weekend.
Would it be bad to pull a tap from a low producing tree and move it to another one mid season? Does anyone use an awl to check trees that are not tapped.
Got 20 More gallons of sap today. Sugar content was a little lower. 2.5% from the yard/field maples, everything else averaged 2% with the reds running under 2 and the sugars just over 2%.
Should be a good boil this weekend.
Sap was not running today. Too cold today or too warm yesterday?
Just about every tap was dry or had 1/8 cup of sap.
Below freezing now, hopefully it recharges the trees.
Boiled my sap today. Ended up just shy of a gallon and a half. It was too cold again today and nothing was running. Next week looks good.
Collected 50 gallons today. Running 2%
Should have had more but many of my 1 gallon jugs got knocked over in the wind.
20 More gallons today. Large ones finally started running, but the small ones stopped. Need another freeze to recharge them.
Hung 23 buckets after work last night and most were running good. Got another 55 buckets to hang tonight after work.
100-110 buckets
Leader 7.5" 3 Bank filter press (2023)
RO Bucket RB10 (2017) upgraded to RB20 (2020)
Homemade oil tank arch
Homemade stainless pans
12x16 Sugar Shack (new 2020)
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