Started in Clinton Corners, NY

[MaplePancakeMan]

I put 150 taps in today, gonna put another 100 or so out tomorrow by the end of tapping today the first bucket had 2 gallons of sap in it. It was pouring out of the trees like crazy!

Steve

[mountainvan]

welcome to the 2008 season. Get ready for lots of sap in the middle of the week.

[MaplePancakeMan]

decided to hold off on the last bit of taps as their looks to be a nice cold snap coming. Collected 200 gallons put half of them through the evaporator before i went to bed. will finish probably thursday as the weather isn't looking conducive for me to boil

[mountainvan]

Made much syrup yet? I was close to you today, sure smelled like the sap should have been flowing in the lowlands.

[MaplePancakeMan]

Made 5 gallons of really light (but flavorful) syrup as of now, should have another 300 or so gallons of sap tomorrow morning weather has been up and down, it stopped flowing during the rainstorm. Just started running again this morning.

[troes30]

im in upstate ny near watertown. nice to see another new yorker on here. been running more lines but not goin to tap til presidents day. i thought id be early but you got me a little nervous now. Ah, we're up in the sticks. We'll be ok. Hows the sugar content so far? Last year was weak, was hoping it would improve this year.

[bowtie]

unless you have so many taps that it will take more than a couple of days to tap I think everyone in northern pa right thru Canada will be sitting on their hands until there is a sign of warming up and I do not see one in at least the next 10 days. I plan on tapping the last weekend of this month unless the weather makes a drastic turn. the forecast coming into winter had the northeast with below average jan-feb and above average march-april, they got the first part right, if they get the second part right we will a short season. with the snowpack and the upcoming frigid temps this weekend and next week it may take 5-7 days in the upper 30's or low 40's to even thaw the trees enough to start running. the way I see it in the lower northeast mid-april and it will done regardless of weather, trees will bud, and sap will go buddy. that leaves at most 6-7 weeks of possible maple making. if the runs are good that can be plenty but if not the season will fall short of average much like last year for most.

[MaplePancakeMan]

Sugar Content is right around 2.2-2.5 right now.

Fred is right, i thought i lived in the sticks, until i went up there to look at colleges with a friend a year or so ago. We stayed in Massena and went to potsdam, St. Lawrence etc. It was so Rural lots of good farm stands though!

Still have yet to work out my relationship with my RO she's very needy.

[MaplePancakeMan]

boiling down the last 175 gallons today, boy is it cold out there. Figure with my set up between the weather and temps next couple days i wouldn't have gotten to do it til thurs. On the bright side, the tank froze 2" all around so it was 2.2 when it went in and right at 3% when i started feeding to the tank.

[mountainvan]

That's diehard boiling outside today. If you get the chance again, move the sap and let it freeze another night. Before I got a lot of taps I'd get it up to 6% by moving the sweet to different tanks to freeze.