North East Ohio 2019

[DrTimPerkins]

The Air Injection from H20 is pretty neat.... we've made nothing but light syrup so far.

It's likely to stay that way until the last day or two. Hard to make dark syrup with air injection

[woodburner]

Great year so far here, sugar still at 2.1 and making some dark syrup. Up to 92gal so far but getting close to the end. Taps have been in since Feb2. It sure has been a dry season, only rained once while boiling and then not for very long. Hope everyone is having a good year, we sure are.

[Kh7722]

So far so good on our end, made some great light syrup early, and is all amber and dark now, but great flavor. At aboit 80% crop so far and the next 7-10 days look good on the forcast but we all know how that goes. Average is about 1.3-1.5, not great but cant control that anyway. Time will tell when the season ends but anything past the next few days is going to be great for us. Hope everyone’s equipment is running well
Kevin

[christopherh]

Great season so far, I’ve seen 1.6 on my stand of reds and 2.5 on the sugars. Today sugars were 2.1. So far all light syrup.

[johnallin]

Fred helped set up the new CDL Hobby RO tonight. It yanked about 120 gallons of water out of the 300 in the tank. I can’t wait to boil, even just, 2-4% sap. I now see how those of you with Hi Vac and RO’s don’t mind 1%. Sure will make a difference in wood and time over here.

[johnallin]

It's likely to stay that way until the last day or two. Hard to make dark syrup with air injection

It's hard for me to make syrup period, when sugar content is below 1% !

We weren't boiling sap, I re-named it "sip".

The new mini hobby CDL RO is going to change things.

[johnallin]

John I have averaged 2% sugar but I am on all sugar maples now. 1-1.4% sap was the norm for me when I was also on reds. Cant get started boiling the next few nights until 10 pm or so. Going to be some late nights I think.

Jason- you had an RO back then, right?

How's the Leader Micro RO working out for you? Just fired up the mini hobby CDL 100 last night and went from .9% to over 2%- I'm doing handstands.

[Kh7722]

Well finally pulling taps this weekend, (probably) had a heck of a season about 140% of a full crop for us, with many things to look forward to next year. Made a retainer deposit on the framing for our new sugarhouse. Is it to soon to think aboit next season?

[christopherh]

kH, congrads on the sugarhouse, I’m going to hang in there and see what next week brings. Having a great season here to! Never to early to think about next year!

[johnallin]

Well finally pulling taps this weekend, (probably) had a heck of a season about 140% of a full crop for us, with many things to look forward to next year. Made a retainer deposit on the framing for our new sugarhouse. Is it to soon to think aboit next season?

That's awesome Kevin, and congrats too, from over here on Little Mountain.
Been playing with the new RO this past week, it's pulling 50 gal of water an hour out of the collection tank. For me, with sap at <1% this year, it's a game changer.

I'm definitely staying in until at least end of next week. Too much time lost early and mid Feb and lots of catching up to do.

The air injection has also been a plus, everything so far has been just a tad above delicate, and the syrup pan seems to be easier to clean with no burnt-on sand.