Tapped my early Trees today

[buckeye gold]

bmbmkr -You guys on the river ought to be in full swing by next week. I hope you have a great season. The evaporator looks pretty good, I bbet you'll like it once you get all tuned in.

[MFarmall]

Dana I'm getting same feeling about temps. if believe forecast for 7-10 day not seeing another real freeze up for a while. Seems the mid February freezes getting few and far between.
Oh well have to take and enjoy what mother nature gives us. At least last couple years getting the potatoes planted early.
Had to replace some of the new drops already, squirrels had got them even before got tapped. Had .22 with me so 3 will be in the frying pan instead of chewing lines.

[buckeye gold]

Mel, I 've had good luck deterring squirrels with sriracha sauce on the trees

[MFarmall]

Will have to try that. They seem to love to chew an inch or 2 each side of tee and 4-6" up on drop.
Can you spray it or need to brush it on?

[buckeye gold]

It's kind of thick so you can brush it on, but I get the bottle that has a twist top and just squeeze some out . It last a long time and will withstand a few rains

I tapped the rest of my trees today, 118 total taps

[MFarmall]

Thanks, will get a few bottles and give them something to think about.
Looks like might get sap started some Thursday, then good for a few days of sap. Woods still froze up today after last night.

[jdircksen]

I'm in Columbus with yard trees and put in 14 taps on Saturday 1/18. So far I've collected:
11 gallons on 1/19
16 gallons on 1/24
9 gallons in the morning on 1/25

That's half my taps, and I'll try to get the rest in today. Sap has been 1.9 or 2% but not getting the big runs like last year.

[buckeye gold]

I had a small run yesterday and a decent run overnight. I boiled a total of 115 gallons of sap and made just shy of 2 gallons of syrup. It's still running but slowed up, so I'll have at least a small boil tomorrow, but hope for at least 50 gallons of sap.

[MFarmall]

Had runs Friday and Saturday. nothing today.
Sap running low again this year. 1.5 best so far. Got 5 gallon made so fair, real light stuff.
See "cold " temps this week but thinking be a long shot to get even a few days of way below freezing rest of this season this year. Hope I am really wrong.

[waldo320]

Tapped a week and half ago little to no sap on 36 taps so far in Summit County.