Maple syrup time?

[Sinker]

Pretty slow going for me. How are the rest of you guys making out?

I have finished 9 litres so far, and as of right now have no sap to boil. I usually do around 20l a season. Its been a funny one, that's for sure. Hoping I can get my 20l with this weeks weather, but its not quite getting warm enough for my trees to really run. I get a couple hours when they run mid afternoon, but very slow going.

S.

[jaycee]

A friend of mine just a kilometer away from here has already boiled and stored 6, 38 gallon barrels of syrup this season so far , it stopped running a couple of days ago but is starting to run again today.
He has 3500 trees tapped and is running a vacuum system.

As of this past Sunday [yesterday] my friend has just over 500 gallons of finished syrup, there was a pancake and sausage breakfast there yesterday, and he said if there is no more sap running the next couple of days, he is closing down and will clean up all the equipment , as when the trees start budding the sap turns cloudy and the taste is off.

[MarkB]

Friend of mine said in her area the run was ruined due to temps rising too fast.

[Oddmott]

Weird season for us too. Although, we haven't had a single "good" or "normal" season for 5 yrs straight... So maybe wonky is the new normal.

We've only collected 250 gallons of SAP on 150ish taps. That's pretty pitiful. Warmed up enough last week just enough to get rid of the snow, then froze up again so the sap isn't running.

I'm sure now it'll warm up to +10 for a solid week and kill any chance we have at getting a respectable harvest.

[johny]

Sap has been flowing steady for about 10 days in Fort Frances.
Not sugar maples.
My neighbour taps the big Silver maples in his yard. Makes a very nice mild flavoured syrup.
I tap Red Maples from the farm property-- also makes an excellent syrup that is just as good as Lanark County product.

[seabast]

Friend of mine said in her area the run was ruined due to temps rising too fast.

A friend in Brechin and one in Orillia told me the same thing, they haven't got much this year.

[KMG Canada]

Just got home today from the Toronto Sportsmen Show and tapped our first trees, they were running well late afternoon, will update after a day or two.

[Fox]

Weird season for us too. Although, we haven't had a single "good" or "normal" season for 5 yrs straight... So maybe wonky is the new normal.

We've only collected 250 gallons of SAP on 150ish taps. That's pretty pitiful. Warmed up enough last week just enough to get rid of the snow, then froze up again so the sap isn't running.

I'm sure now it'll warm up to +10 for a solid week and kill any chance we have at getting a respectable harvest.

It is crazy what a few km will do. I talked with a guy last night who has tapped trees near Kemptville, he said they are going like crazy. We have manitoba maple and next year we will tap them (takes about 60-1 for this syrup) but decided this year was too weird, we are missing out. We actually had to cut a branch off one of the trees due to the ice damage and we have a 3ft sap sicle hanging off of it now, running like crazy.

[Sinker]

Collected a whopping 140l from 146 taps last night. SLOW going. Just not quite warm enough in the day. Just the sunny trees produced. The shady buckets were all dry. Fingers crossed we get some warmer daytime highs and still keep the overnights below zero.

S.

[CptSydor]

I moved out to NB this summer and tapped some maples for the first time this winter. I only have red maples. I thought I'd start small and put in 10 taps. I've been happy so far. I've had them out for 4 weeks now. I've collected ~150L of sap which has reduced down to 3L of syrup. I've been very happy with the product and have really enjoyed the process. I've got another 20L I need to collect, then I head out of town for a week. Forecast looks okay to till I get back, but that will likely be the end of it. I'm hoping to come back to all my buckets full, which should get me another ~2L of syrup. That would be .5L of syrup per tap. I'd be happy with that, then next year I'd like to get up to 30-40 taps and get ~15L of syrup if I can.

Some of my product.