Maple Syrup making

[Sinker]

I should get a sap tsunami here today. Hoping anyways.

 

S.

[moose]

Collected 230 litres of sap yesterday as trees started to run again

[Rod Caster]

Yep, started up again today as well. Hoping for a flood over next week

[Sinker]

I finished 6 more litres on sunday. Iys slowed down around here but its still flowing ok on my bush trees. I should have enough for one more boil by end of week then taps are coming out. Im over 40 litrs finished now..... sick of it now lol

 

 

S.

[north560]

My trees are starting to run now, got 4gals of sap yesterday, time to start cutting the dead trees around the house for wood for the stove then we can start to boil.

[Sinker]

Its still running down here too. It just won't stop!!! I have 320l of sap boiled down to about 70 but I have been working so haven't had time to finish it.

 

Make it stop!!!

 

S.

[Rod Caster]

Ha! That's crazy! I'll pot an update tomorrow, no time right now

[Rod Caster]

I'm gonna go collect this morning to boil down what's left of approx. 220L ( I par-boiled some the other day). There is still a lot snow in the bush, and some trees are really pushing out the sap still. My goal was 15-20 L of syrup, I'm at 11, and should get at least 5-6L from this boil, so I'm in the wheelhouse and very happy with be season and how much I've learned. Everyone says it's been a great year for syrup, so hurray for that.

 

Funny though, some trees actually stopped running on the first real nice day, even with -2 at night. They just shut down and I don't get it. With the crazy nice temps, I feel like the trees should be winding down as of today, but I would never have thought, that with perfect temperature swings, and 2 feet of snow in places in the bush, that the trees would be shutting down. Especially with the southern guys just finishing up now, I should be 1 or 2 weeks behind.

 

Some of my trees were tapped before March 15th, has anyone experienced trees self-healing?? I feel like if I drill a new hole, the tree will start running again, but then again I don't want to drill a hole for nothing or risk injuring the tree. The first year I did this, I drilled the trees in early march, and when the run started, the trees were seemingly choked back, so I re-drilled a few, and pow! the sap flowed great. Any thoughts on this?

[moose]

we pulled our taps yesterday after collectng over a 1000 litres of syrup tues to yest and the boil hac been none stop we boiled around 4500 litres and 100 plus litres of syrup

[Sinker]

Nice! Where are you located?

[moose]

horseshoe valley area

[Rod Caster]

My second batch, was very light, much lighter than the 5 previous batches. ...???

[Sinker]

There are a ton of reasons for colour.

 

I just finished my last 4 litres.

 

 

DONE!!

 

lost count of the final tally, but somewhere around 45 litres from 46 taps. Great season but glad its over!! I still have a bunch of work to do cleaning up gear and storing it all away.

 

S.

[Rod Caster]

That's a great return for 46 taps. I'm at 20 for 34 so far. Im not sure if the trees still have any sap left in them. Will find out later today

[Sinker]

Turns out it was only 44 taps. LOL.....either that or I missed a few on pack up. Regardless, 44 buckets are cleaned, dried and put away for next year.

 

S.

[north560]

Finally the sap is running getting 4gals per day hopefully by Saturday can start to boil and pull the taps.About time.