I’ll give an outdated update on my season. I tapped 40 trees around new years, all reds and drops into buckets. I’d say really it was like 25 taps as 15 didn’t do much (small crowns in the woods). I collected over 250 gallons and made 5 gallons of syrup, so coming in just under 2.0 Brix. My tap holes made it to March 20th or so. Collected about 80 gallons in each of jan/feb/march. A nice experiment for me given the warm January and I had to be cleaned up by march 26th. Glad to hear most had good seasons!
2023 - 40-ish taps (25-30 “effective” ones), tapped mostly in New Year’s Eve. 5 gallons of syrup.
2022 - 70 taps - 12 gallons of syrup
2021 - 72 taps ~ 8 gallons of syrup
2020 - 8 taps on droplines into buckets, stove top boil, < 1 gallon syrup
A neighborhood consortium of red maple trees, a renegade group of neighborhood kids emptying 5 gallon buckets, a homemade RO, a 3 pan cinderblock evaporator near the street, and 1 very patient wife
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