North East Ohio 2024

[Timberwolf]

After I finished installing drop lines this evening I went ahead and tapped one test tree and hung a bag just to get another indicator for tapping. Got a few drops, but sun was already down. Temps here have been hanging in the upper 30's all day.

[berkshires]

I have a friend who's new to sugaring that lives in NE OH. She's all on buckets. Should I recommend she tap now?

Thanks,

Gabe O

[Timberwolf]

I have a friend who's new to sugaring that lives in NE OH. She's all on buckets. Should I recommend she tap now?

Thanks,

Gabe O

Just my two cents, I would tell them to consider tapping this weekend depending on their schedule.

[ToddMoyer]

I tapped 50 last Sunday (Jan 21st) sap ran Jan 24th - 15 gallons from those 50 taps at 2.5-3% collectively. Ground was still froze yesterday evening when I collected, looking for double production today with the warmer temperature and more frost coming out of the ground. Temperatures are looking favorable (Accuweather forecast) for the next week. I will be finishing out my tapping this Saturday (+50 more)

[miboss]

Finished tapping yesterday, not much of a run over night, but it's running really well today. First boil tomorrow.

[WoodButcher]

All tapped in as of today. Ran good yesterday but only 10 or 20% of the trees were running today. Buona Fortuna everyone!

[johnallin]

Spent today clearing fallen trees off lines. Some areas looked like a bomb had gone off!
Got to say I was really appreciative of our son, his buddy and new member Todd Moyer, and our son in law for their help.
Had some full tree tops that we had to “dissect through” just to get lines up off the ground. Being able to chainsaw through and have them pull limbs out of the way, as I went, made quick work of it all.
I’m planning to tap this week, but thinking this upcoming weather is just the calm before the storm.

[miboss]

We made 7.5 gallons of dark amber (hanna 55) last night and 8 gallons of dark (hanna 40) today. A strange start to the season with the darker syrup, but temps in the 50's will do that I guess. Looking forward to a reset and some colder temps. Things definitely slowing down. Thursday I was getting about 2.5-3 gal/tap, yesterday slowed to ~ 1.5 gal/tap, and today, maybe .5 - 1 gal/tap.

On a side note, I got a new Lapierre water jacketed bottler, I'm not sure if one can love a piece of equipment, but man that thing is nice, it brings things to temp quickly and having 4 valves to bottle at the same time really save time if one was inclined to multitask. A huge improvement over my steam pan bottler.

[MapleCreekFarm]

Good morning to all, Just thought I would update you all on my maple farm for this season so far. I started tapping on Jan 1st and finished on the 7th. The 12th was my first boil (I've got cooling tanks to hold my concentrate this year!) and made about 95 gal of syrup. Then we had that hard freeze so I didn't boil again till the 24th at which I made 80 gal. The weather the last week was certainly not ideal and this week doesn't look the greatest but could be a whole lot worse. I know I'm an outlier with tapping so early, and I'm still somewhat apprehensive if it is wise, but here's hoping for a long season and good weather for all.
P.S. I tapped about the same time last year and made out ok in spite of abysmal weather in February.

[Timberwolf]

We tapped about 325 on gravity Friday and it did not start running until mid Saturday afternoon after the sun finally made it's way out of the clouds. Ran a little better Sunday and decent Monday, but still kind of slow for my liking. We are in North Central Ohio near Ragersville.