Originally Posted by
ir3333
We think alike Galena...your records show you are super efficient and outperform most "sugarers" Is that a word?
I only tap the biggest trees and never care about how much syrup I make either. I only tap 25 large trees with huge
crowns and no neighbouring competition.
Thanks for the nice words :-) Yeah sugarers is a word, or sucriers if you wanna be all fancy lol!!
IDK about super efficient, I just tap conservatively and have only 8 trees max. I gave a couple this season off, one may be permanently retired. Try to be nice to them, limb off dead and clearly dying branches,. give them nutrients like wood ash(!), alpaca pooh tea and so forth, keep nearby saplings and creeping vines from crowding/strangling them.
Actually my big trees are starting to dry up now, it's a bush maple doing the heavy lifting. And it does seem to be in its own little sweet spot, as it were. It is uncrowded by other trees and has a great crown.
So long as I have enough syrup to sweeten my daily cup of coffee, and enough left over for competition, I'm happy :-)
Last edited by Galena; 03-30-2024 at 07:58 PM.
Been tapping since 2008.
2018 - 17 taps/7 trees...819l sap, approx 28l syrup
2019 - 18 taps/8 trees...585l sap, 28l syrup...21:1 ratio
2020 - 18 taps/8 trees...890.04l sap...gave away about 170l, 30l snafu'd....23l total for me from approx 690l
2021 - 18 taps/8 trees...395l sap, 12 l syrup
2022 - 18 taps/8 trees....7 sugars 1 red due to #2 having surgery so had the season off....582l sap, 18.5l syrup
2023 - 18 taps/8 trees...all sugars again. 807l sap, so far approx 14l syrup
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