Tapping for 2021

[markgm]

I got 107 taps in today. I'm not expecting much tomorrow (a cloudy 37 won't thaw out anything), but I am hopeful the season will kick-off on Tuesday!

[therealtreehugger]

Put up 14 buckets - 28 taps this afternoon in the next door neighbors yard. still have trees in the neighbor across the street. Maybe tomorrow!

So I volunteer at the Dudley Farm Maple Syrup Demonstration, in North Guilford. We are doing the demo sat and sun this past weekend, and the next two weekends. There was so little sap this weekend that we had boil water!

[FarmallCT]

Finished installing lines and put 129 taps in today. Have a few more laterals I can put up so should be around 150-160 taps once those are up. Not much flowing with a high of 30, just enough to get a trickle in some of the drops. Hoping tomorrow will be sufficient to flush out the lines and can start collecting on Tuesday.

[CTSap4Maple]

I tapped in about 50 taps on 3/16th tubing this am. Nothing running yet at 42 degrees. I am at 590’ elevation, so maybe another day for the trees to thaw.

[Gord]

I tapped this past weekend at 716' elevation. Trees in full sunlight are running well. Woods trees, not so much yet.

[aviboy97]

So, I tapped a week ago. Had some flow during the two days that were optimal and then another freeze came. Today, a few trees ran really well but most are doing nothing. Should I be concerned that I tapped too early or should I just be patient?

[Ocelotsden]

They should be okay once the weather cooperates. I tapped a dozen trees on Sunday and they flowed a little bit that day, but stopped. Nothing at all today when I checked even though it got up to 40. This coming weekend I'm seeing mid to upper 20's at night and upper 30's and 40's in the day and lasting at least a week, so I'm expecting mine to start flowing then. I'm in the Hudson Valley area of NY so not a huge difference in temps, although you may be warmer since CT is closer to the coast than me.

[aviboy97]

I’m in western CT little over an hour due East of you. We most likely have a very similar climate.

[Tobey802]

Hopefully tomorrow things start running! I didn’t get anything at all today the temps hovered right around 35 in Warren. Waiting to put my mountain maple controller to the test.

[Ocelotsden]

Hope so. I have this one big silver maple in my front yard that's 2 1/2 to 3 foot in diameter and on a good day it pours sap. I've gotten up to 7 gallons of sap from two taps in one day on that tree in past years. I put one tap in it on Sunday and got maybe a pint of sap that day or Monday, but when I checked mid day today, the tube was bone dry. I'm thinking by the end of the week. My only worry is that a few days are forecast to be right at or a bit above freezing at night and I need it colder at night, preferably hitting the upper 20's. fortunately in this case I usually run a few degrees colder at night than the forecast due to my particular location.