2025 Sugaring Season

[toquin]

All tapped. Still too much snow in the woods. Little dripping action this afternoon.

[ebliese]

We tapped yesterday and today. Our rough count is 158. The yard trees and field edge trees ran last night, maybe two gallons per bucket. Looks like the woods aren't running as well yet but that's not surprising. Might collect this afternoon. The weather this morning was really beautiful-foggy spots, sun creeping up and shining through the trees, clear skies.

[toquin]

850 gal. today. Yard trees running,south facing woods trees running,middle of woods not much. Looks like a interesting week coming up, as far as temps.

[dugit]

Collected 120 gallon from 100 yard tree taps , few more to collect in the morning, start boiling afterwards. Have about 40 more taps to do on tubing, all woods trees . Using 3/16. Looks like what I have tubed is working good. Taping with tubing is slow and time consuming but will be nice when its done. Will be a lot faster next year because it will already be built. When I'm done I'll have 100+ on buckets and 100+ tubes. Should be able to get to it in a couple of days. I'm thinking the woods trees won't start running by then. Ready or not, the seasons here. MAY YOUR BUCKETS RUN FULL

[ScottT]

We have woods trees here in the Thumb. Tapping this weekend. going to be around 50 taps this year. If my gravity tubing works well, we may expand into some hard to reach places next year.

[ScottT]

Put in 40 taps this weekend in The Thumb. First time we put in tubing. two sets of about 10-13 trees on different sections of our property. Took longer than I thought. Of course the 1 degree windchill on Saturday was doing its best to kill us. Finished today. We'll probably add another 10 taps on buckets next weekend. Frost is still pretty thick in the ground. Trees were bone dry, but it didn't get higher than 22 degrees today. This week in The Thumb looks promising, but the long term forecast for the following week as temps in the 60s?? Weird.

[ebliese]

We've collected and boiled twice now. Each time we've gotten about 150 gallons of sap. Now my RO is leaky and I can't stop the leak. Ugg, the headache. At least the sap isnt' running today.

[ScottT]

What's your percentage of sugar? I've been hearing the sugar percentages have been low.

[ebliese]

We're getting between 1.7% and 2% sugar content. Without consulting my records, I'd say it's roughly equivalent to last year.

[toquin]

Had to empty 250 gal poly tank that my gravity mainline runs into twice today