Well I dumped about 100Gal of crystal clear %.7 sap today. I just could not justyfy boiling it @ 20 - 22 Gal/hour.
Anyone else see sap this low? Any chance it will go up?
Almost H2O
Well I dumped about 100Gal of crystal clear %.7 sap today. I just could not justyfy boiling it @ 20 - 22 Gal/hour.
Anyone else see sap this low? Any chance it will go up?
My sugar content was very low at the start of the season but has increased lately. It was 2% from my trees on vacuum which are mostly reds and 3% from my sugars on buckets yesterday. I also noticed that there wasn't as much bacteria in the woods tank from the taps on vacuum yesterday. The run before that I got 2.1% from my vacuum taps and 3% from my buckets. I could see the bacteria in the releaser as it was coming out of the mainlines that day.
Russ
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325abn, yeah it's way down! Fat chance it will rise in the future this year. But there is always next year!
Russ I'm jealous, 2+%? Wow. I have not seen that this year on anything! The bacteria looked like a big loogie in the crystle clear sap.(no snot rockets in my sap!) I washed all the tanks and still it showed up. Oh well, it's over for this year. Glad to see it go, looking forward to next year.
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