Eastern Ontario 2025

[Galena]

Hey bitches! I'm back! Tapped today, so glad I waited, originally planned to tap a week ago. Very glad that I didn't.

Down to 7 trees now, retired #6 last year. But my old standbys still have their usual 3 taps per, and added Surprise to the 3-tap club. So, 17 taps in. As of now there are maybe 5l sitting out there all told but not going to even think of collecting til tomorrow.

[Vandy]

Slow drip all day Sunday overnight into Monday. Some overflowing buckets, some 1/4 only.. Made some steam Monday to make sure everything was working. Sitting on about 60 gal of sap with -9 overnight last night. Going to break out my shorts for the forecasted 17 on sat and sun

[Maplelane1]

So I'm anticipating a good run over the next few days... Not trying to sound like an expert on sap flow predictions by any means but based on almost everything I've heard, been told, watched and somewhat learned over the years leaves me (right or wrong...what the hell do I know) a good flow is coming. Indicators are...Forecasted temps, sun and wind direction are favourable... AND the full moon on Friday. Call it witchcraft, hopeless optimism whatever... I'm looking forward to the next few days ! Good luck all !

[limestone]

The season is in full swing here.
A good run Monday allowed us to fire up and sweeten the pans and boil for a few hours. Nothing Tuesday but yesterday and today were excellent runs and we made syrup both days. We’re losing snow depth fairly quickly. Went from 15” last weekend to 10”or less Today.

[Maplelane1]

Collected 800 litres over Thursday and Friday last week, mostly on Friday. No run over the weekend. Boiled down 700 litres yesterday so pans are sweet. hoping for a couple runs this week and another boil on the weekend. How's everyone else doing ?

[ProBoot]

Only really tapped yesturday with under 50 taps on 3/16" lines. Nothing really running otherwise where I am. Have 7 buckets up and basically for a week they didn't even fill up once. Still a foot of snow on the ground here and patiently waiting for a good run.

[Fort Wisers]

Hi everyone, good to be back, we took the last couple of years off but my wife decided our reserves were getting dangerously low lol.

Hope everyone is going well.
We tapped Sunday March 9th, haven't seen any really good runs yet, we have ~ 90 liters of sap collected so far.
Good luck to everyone this season.

[ennismaple]

Welcome back Galena! We have 3 boils completed to date, #4 tomorrow (Tuesday). We managed to survive the monsoon rains on Sunday and still have snow in the woods - albeit a fraction of what there was a week ago. All the lines have been walked twice and the vacuum is up to 25 almost everywhere. Syrup quality has been really good, but it's been a bear to filter! We needed to change our 10" plate press twice on Saturday (3 sets of papers). Sugar content has been OK 2.2, 2.2 and 2.0 Brix on the days we boiled. We're still hoping for the early season spike - would be great to get a couple good days of 2.8+ Brix and watch the auto-runoff barely close for a couple boils!

[ennismaple]

It's definitely go time! Big day yesterday and will be another big day today. We got a half gallon of sap per tap in a 4.5 hour window yesterday afternoon.

I'll sleep in May...

[ProBoot]

pulled about 200l sap from 50 taps yesterday(over 3 days I think total)
Hoping my tank is overflowing tonight when I get home.