I don't plan to tap my yard trees this spring. Weather we have here next few days I'm sure it will be dripping.
What is happening else where??

Mac

Favorite nephew taps along the Mississippi between the cities and Saint Cloud. As of this morning nothing but I’m thinking that will change fast.

Osky

Just starting to flow in central il.

We finished up 2 1/2 gallons last weekend. That’s enough for us.

Ran here today

He lost in November!

Tapped today and it was running.

running here

Plan on tapping tomorrow

Tapped 60 trees on Sunday2/24. Today about six put out about 1/2 gal but most are just starting but a good run of weather this week it looks like.

Tapped a couple test trees today. Pretty early up here Lake county, M.N. A couple feet of snow yet.

A little bit. Probably too much frost in the ground around the roots to get it running good. Today was our 3rd day tapping. We have about 650 taps out with 3 smaller woods to go the next couple days.Hve not collected yet.

Bryce

Walnuts are running. Tapped a few and collection is fair.

Today was the first day I know of any being collected here. Trees are just trying to get going. I'd not expect much to be collected tomorrow as the temp is going to run about 30-32 overnight with rain forecasted for morning. Forecast looks potentially favorable going forward though. The state didnt have much of anything last year so the guys are pretty anxious around here

We have two sugar bushes that we hobby tap, one highland, one low along small river. The low trees always a week or more before the highland but they both end about the same time when spring breaks flow. Pretty sure it is the unfrozen ground water near river that lets them flow earlier.

Gpt 10 trees left in one woods. Put about 150 taps in there today. Two woods left about 80 to 100 taps and we should be done! I have a 4 wheeler on the fritz so that is an issue when collection starts.
Taps were filling up while putting in today. A lot of times they bleed or run a bit when tapping. We melted off about 6-12 inches of snow in the lasst 3 days and the ground is still froze so it is muddy in the woods around us.

Bryce

Put out 40 buckets yesterday. Nothing yet!

guys are getting some here,

This is in the running for best post ever

Wait until later today might be something in those buckets. Like i said I'm not tapping this year just don't feel like it.
This did pop up on my FB yesterday. Apparently 8 years ago the sap was running. Not sure exactly where you are but this was probably close by.






Mac

Finished tapping today. Got the last 90 or so taps out. Wind is cold!. Two larger operations that we take sap to are all tapped but feel it won't run much until next week. These two places do over 2,000 trees total. Our estimate is about 830 taps out. Now to get my one 4 wheeler repaired be fore the run starts. It is now a weather related business.

Bryce

Anything happening? Or did everyones run stall out?? Anyone Boiling??

Mac

Now running here.

I only have 21 taps out here in central Iowa but only collected one gallon in 5 days. Since there is a storm coming, I pulled the 10 taps that were the farthest from home. Today several trees started to run, and I got 6 gallons of sap. If the storm isn't heavy, or if the snow melts soon, I will go back and reset the taps. Last year I got 21 gallons of sap with 4 taps so I hoped to increase that . I wonder if the lack of soil moisture has something to do with the slow production of sap. Anyone got any ideas? You can tell that I do this as a hobby and end up giving most of the syrup away for Christmas.

Zookeeper

neighbors trees are running mine aren't quite yet

We have not collected yet. Don't know how much it ran today. We have some weather coming so we will see how that impacts the trees and us. They are projecting rain for our area at this time with as much as a foot of snow 150 miles north and west of us.

Bryce

Trees are being tapped here in SW MI.

We have most bukets with about an inch in each bucket, maybe 10% have a gallon in them We will go around and dump all of those out as the trees are not "running" yet and we don't need some bad sap in the pails when they do run. Does not look like until later this week before our season gets rolling. The two places we take our sap are waiting as well.

Bryce

At least in Michigan, I would imagine it’ll start flowing better next week when we get into the 50s during the day and still those cold, below freezing nights.

I did some clearing at the property this past weekend and the Red Maple cambium layer has some moisture but isn’t flowing super hard yet.

My yard maple tree dripping big time this morning. But it has been doing that off and on since December.

Mac

My low tech operation is steaming today.

Winding down here. Boiled 100 gallons last night. Probably another 300 to go over the next few days then I'll be done.