A few days back I questioned you all about the “tap root myth” and you all confirmed my thoughts. So now I’m wondering, What are other Maple Syrup Myths? I can think of a few, but what have you all heard?
Maple Syrup Myths?
A few days back I questioned you all about the “tap root myth” and you all confirmed my thoughts. So now I’m wondering, What are other Maple Syrup Myths? I can think of a few, but what have you all heard?
Youngbloodfamilyfarm@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/jybshopteacher
20 x 38 flat pan on extended barrel stove evaporator
DIY RO with aqua tech pump and 3 150gpd membranes
2020 53 taps
2019 47 taps 18.5 gallons
2018 28 taps. 12.5 gallons
2017 17 taps
2016 17 taps
2015 17 taps
Always tap on the south side of the tree.
42.82N
2015 - Small operation. 25 buckets. One excited 5 year old and one 35 year old that feels 5 again.
2016 - One year older. New Homemade 2x4 Arch, Smoky Lake Pan and looking at 52 maples, 17 box elders and 2 walnut trees.
2017 - Shurflo 4008 hooked to 42 stingy silver maples and a few Norways. A couple buckets on sugars and Norways. 10 box elders.
2018 - ...a few more taps.
2019 - ...more taps on 3/16 gravity. This spiral is heading downward in a hurry.
2020 - 4x400 RO - RB20 (uh-oh!)
Cloudy sap or yellow sap or smelly sap = buddy syrup.
Clear non smelly sap= good non buddy syrup. Expanded flower buds on red and silver maples means its time to pull taps. I always know when its going to run,how long it will and how much it will.
Frozen sap is all water, throw it out.
You ever heard of a Popsicle
Youngbloodfamilyfarm@gmail.com
https://www.youtube.com/user/jybshopteacher
20 x 38 flat pan on extended barrel stove evaporator
DIY RO with aqua tech pump and 3 150gpd membranes
2020 53 taps
2019 47 taps 18.5 gallons
2018 28 taps. 12.5 gallons
2017 17 taps
2016 17 taps
2015 17 taps
Sap from a vacuum system is lower in sugar content.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
“50 taps are all I need and I am never going to buy more equipment”
Are you talking about a fully frozen bucket? Or the top 1/3 of a frozen bucket? If the former, I agree. If the latter, my experience, and I think the consensus, is that this is no myth.Originally Posted by JYb.shopteacher
16x24 Timber Frame Sugar House
Mason 2x4 Evaporator
90 trees on buckets
The more taps on a tree, the more sap you get!
3500 taps, vacuum.
Everyone who posts on here is an expert. LOL
1960 - 1970s 70 taps on galvanized buckets with Dad and Grandpa.
1970s - 1985 Acted crazy!
1986 - 2005 20-30 buckets.
2006- 2017 70 buckets and bags
2017-2019 100 bags and buckets
2020 Finally retired!!! 75 buckets, 50-75 on tubing. RO Bucket, New 12 X 16 Shack and a 42X42 flat pan.
2021-Adding another 125 taps along with a second RO bucket.
2022- Shooting for 350 taps, with 100 on lines.
Lots of Family and Friends and dogs named Skyy and Nessy!
I get this all the time, and all vacuum does is pull water from the stump 😂
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