Checking what VT sugar makers are doing

[Parker]

I always look forward to the Spud report

[hogisland42]

Spud where are you located?

[smokeyamber]

Checking buckets this morning and I saw some slime in a couple, taps are still dripping clear, should I clean the buckets out and press on or is this a sign of buddy sap ? 3/16 lines are still going strong and sap looks good and clear.

Thinking two more days then I will likely run out of wood anyway so will have to call it done...

Good season so far except for burning a ton of wood for only 8 gallons of syrup so far... sugar content must have been low this season.

[spud]

Spud where are you located?

I’m in Richford. Sap is running 185 gph and testing 1.5%. Should run till 9:00pm and then a much better freeze tonight. Hoping for another week. Fingers are crossed.

Spud

[GeneralStark]

Sap flow has been limping along since the last boil on Saturday but I did manage to collect about 1800 gal since then as of this am. Boiled today and made about 20+ gal. of some nice dark syrup. Right on the line with very dark. Rarely make any of that very dark but this may be the year....

SSC is still over 1 but not by much and haven't had a freeze in several days. I did notice some subtle earthiness to the smell in the sugarhouse while boiling but otherwise foam wasn't too bad and filtering was no problem. There were a few wood frogs chirping in one of the wetlands below us when I walked by with the family this afternoon as well as all sorts of other signs of spring.

Will boil at least one more time given a definite solid freeze tonight and no major warm ups until the end of the week.

[Ultimatetreehugger]

I saw sap running at 426 gallons per hour around 130. Hardest run I've seen yet.

[spud]

Yesterday was no gusher for me but I did get 1600 gallons by freeze up last night. Sap is testing 1.5 which is very good this time of year. This morning it is 25.7 degrees at the house at 5:45 am. It’s setting up for a good sap run day with early sun till noon and highs to be 43 degrees. I’m hoping there will be 3-5 more freezing nightS in the next ten days. The temps have been getting much cooler on the hill then downtown where the weather station is. When they say 35 for a low that means I could get 30. It appears I will pass last years numbers with gpt and sugar. I hope the price of bulk goes up a bit. Good luck everyone. Stay healthy.

Spud

[wdchuck]

Strangely, Spuds report almost always parallels my production even though we're pretty distant from each other. Keep up the good work, Spud- you're my daily entertainment! …..I'm at 3/4 of a crop, and looking for the full quota!

[DrTimPerkins]

Yesterday was no gusher for me but I did get 1600 gallons by freeze up last night. Sap is testing 1.5 which is very good this time of year.

Pretty similar in Underhill. Crew boiled and made another 550 gal of syrup (AR with good flavor). That puts us at 0.573 gpt. Got another 2,500 gal of 1.5 Brix sap overnight. Hoping the freeze last night kickstarts some flow. Should know this by this afternoon. Either way, it'll end up an average or somewhat above-average season for us. Could have been better -- darn squirrels. No freezes in our forecast (close though, so a little hope we could get another one).

[tcross]

bout the same in Derby yesterday. sap was at 1.5. sure does take a lot of wood to make syrup boiling 1.5 sap... has me thinking of what sugar content isn't really worth boiling... not that i'll stop though. had 21 on the thermometer this a.m so hopefully that helps out some!