Poll: 2020 Sap sugar content

[jimsudz]

Sugar started out higher then normal then dropped very quickly.Dropped lower the normal. Seed production was moderate last year, it seemed much higher the year before.

[DrTimPerkins]

Bump...please keep the poll responses coming folks.

[regor0]

I just had my highest of the season yesterday, 2.9%. Rarely do I ever get above 2%.


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[Amber Gold]

My SSC was very low this year, but I have no idea what the seed count was. I used moderate.

[eagle lake sugar]

Another late season here, we didn't get any sap until April. I probably have another week but the sugar is dropping. It started out at 2.5%, was 2% for a week or so and has been dropping ever since even though the temps have been perfect. It's 1.5% today. I think it was an average seed year.

[Corn Cribe]

Not sure on seed production, I put moderate, but excellent sugar content in central Minnesota. Averaged over 3% on silver maples in the yard, 2.5 to 3 on reds in the woods, last year around 2% overall. That made up for a disappointing season for sap production and boiling. I only get to my trees on the weekend, first 3 times I had lower than expected sap level and everything was frozen solid. Fourth time was great, then everything dried up. Woods trees never got going until the end, there was still a foot of snow on the ground in the forest in early April.

[lew]

We ended our season last year with the lowest sugar content I've ever gathered 0.5. This year we started low at 1.6 and dropped again to 0.5. However we gathered 0.5 for over a week just to make a .24 gallons of syrup per tap average. The worst we have done since switching everything to vacuum 15 years ago. We also had a very poor amount of sap per tap this year.I

[Brian Ryther]

75.25 :1 overall

[DrTimPerkins]

Let's go folks...just a few more poll responses to break 100.

[Biz]

My sugar content was extremely low. 2700 gallons of sap from my 200 taps, 45 gallons of syrup, 60:1 average ratio. I have 2/3 red maples so that is part of the reason, still it was worse than last year's ratio which was 55:1 average. I have one bush that is 50 mature roadside sugar maple taps but I only saw a high near 2.5% sugar content a few times early on, then 2% much of the time, and around 1% late in the season.

I had a thought: last fall I noted that the foliage color was not good at all in my area. None of the fluorescent orange maple leaves that we often see. Can't help but wonder if that was an early indicator of sugar content, or just a coincidence.

Dave