I live on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia and was wondering if anyone else out my way taps the big leafs.
Any western tappers???
I live on Vancouver Island in beautiful British Columbia and was wondering if anyone else out my way taps the big leafs.
Hey YoungGun, my brother has made syrup from bigleaf maples. It's about a 72/1 ratio you're looking at for sap/syrup.
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
We live in Quesnel & tap Birch in early April. Birch is approx 120:1 in our world.
Ted T
BC, Canada
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