End Feb sap hauling

[Mike Van]

Accuweather's long range forecast, in my area of CT, shows nights in the low 20's and days in the 40's between 3/4 and 3/25.
Is this too late to tap some new trees for this period of time, in the event my present taps dry up? I'm on buckets, not tubing.

You can tap more trees for sure, just make sure you use clean taps in them, not the ones yopu just pulled - I may be doing that too in a week or so.

[CTsugarMan]

I've never retapped before, was thinking about it I'm just shy of 3000 liters .. why clean taps in the new tapped trees? Even if just tapping same tree other side?

[Mike Van]

Look about 12 topics down the Ct page & find my thread from last year [lesson learned] it's all there.

[CTSap4Maple]

Pretty much dried up here. Are we getting another run this week with the overnight freeze each night?

[BSD]

Pretty much dried up here. Are we getting another run this week with the overnight freeze each night?

WX looks good this coming week. my big property is pretty much dead. one line running ok, another running about half the trees, and the rest are just flat-lined. i drilled a new tap hole in a large tree the other day and nothing ran when it should have been, given the weather. really disappointed. i really wanted to boil another 1500 gallons this year.

[merryall]

absolutely nothing here all week. Flows have been erratic all season and sugar content is about 1.2%

[SkunkWorks]

Last batch was super dark. I think we’re done for this season.

[mspina14]

taps and tubing have been dry for about 4 days now.

I'm hoping the upcoming colder weather gets us one or two more runs this year.

Mark

[hodorskib]

Made a batch today from sap Thursday-Saturday made some very dark syrup. Brought all the tanks back to the house scrubbed them out and temps just hit 27 so hopefully the season will continue.

[DaveB]

Taps have definitely slowed down here but I still managed to collect about 200 gallons off 200 taps yesterday from the last few days. The weather this week looks good and continues beyond that so hopefully things pick up. I doubt we are done, particularly in the northern tier of the state.