Thant’s incredible! 13km apart and a huge difference in sap production.Originally Posted by BCPP
Thant’s incredible! 13km apart and a huge difference in sap production.
It's been a strange season, getting lots of flow on days there should be none and vice versa. Maybe being so close to the lake affects the climate enough?
2023 - 130 taps, 90L from 4,000L as of mid March
2021 - 84 taps, 50L from 2100L
2020 - 100 taps on buckets, 21L syrup from 2700L so far (FEB 26-Mar 13) and then the pandemic hit! End of our season!
2019 - 62 taps on buckets, 95L syrop from 3215L sap
2018 - 62 taps, collecting by hand, 90L syrop from 3200L sap
2017 - Lapierre Waterloo Small mini pro with 40 taps
2014 - 2016 40 taps making one or two batches on a 2x6 flat pan over an open arch as it would have been done in 1900
Headed to the woods to perform a bucket check. Dumped all the tree pee and cleared off snow and was shocked that almost all of the taps were running!
Looks like my season will get extended to at least Wednesday.
Little flow today, just too cold! With the freezing temps tonight and forecast warm tomorrow I'm hoping for a good run tomorrow. But then it gets warm so might get a little on Tuesday but then I think the season will be done (forecasting
+15c) and my last boil will be Wednesday .
2023 - 130 taps, 90L from 4,000L as of mid March
2021 - 84 taps, 50L from 2100L
2020 - 100 taps on buckets, 21L syrup from 2700L so far (FEB 26-Mar 13) and then the pandemic hit! End of our season!
2019 - 62 taps on buckets, 95L syrop from 3215L sap
2018 - 62 taps, collecting by hand, 90L syrop from 3200L sap
2017 - Lapierre Waterloo Small mini pro with 40 taps
2014 - 2016 40 taps making one or two batches on a 2x6 flat pan over an open arch as it would have been done in 1900
Went out to pull the taps this afternoon. Some of the buckets had quite a bit in them, thought maybe I had some last sap to boil down. Went to dump out the first bucket and EWW!!! that stuff stunk! Dumped all the buckets. I'm done.
Next year, I'm getting one of those RO Bucket setups. The cost of the little one will quickly be offset by the savings in propane, electricity, and my sanity.
30 litres on Saturday, 80 litres Sunday and 30 today. Sap is still clear, tasty, smells fine and my trees are nowhere near budding. Just not getting the juice!
Thursday is my spile pule day. Hoping for a serious run to the finish line or I’m not meeting my goal of 50 litres of finished.
Just collected sap in one hour intervals and my trees are dripping at a rate of 25-30 litres per hour for the 58 taps.
Shows promise for a good end to the season....
I hope mine are flowing... Wont know till tonight.
Halton forecast looks about the same as mine.... No freeze tonight... but freezing the Wed and Thurs nights. Might get a couple decent sap days??
Hoping so... Id like to give the evaporator one more try this year.
I wish you well!
I went back after 4 hours and getting exactly 27 litre per hour at 1.85% Brix. I’ll take it!
No sap running on Sunday, very little yesterday (~22L from 62 taps!) when it was supposed to be warm! Today was another story 295l collected from the 62 taps. Not calling for freezing temps tonight and it's going to start getting warm. I'm thinking whatever we collect tomorrow will be the end. We are almost at the 3200l of last year (only need another 300)! Will be close!
2023 - 130 taps, 90L from 4,000L as of mid March
2021 - 84 taps, 50L from 2100L
2020 - 100 taps on buckets, 21L syrup from 2700L so far (FEB 26-Mar 13) and then the pandemic hit! End of our season!
2019 - 62 taps on buckets, 95L syrop from 3215L sap
2018 - 62 taps, collecting by hand, 90L syrop from 3200L sap
2017 - Lapierre Waterloo Small mini pro with 40 taps
2014 - 2016 40 taps making one or two batches on a 2x6 flat pan over an open arch as it would have been done in 1900
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