Where are you and how many trees you thinking. Im in Ohio and my season will be done this week. If you are just starting and thinking 20-30 trees i can give ideas. Started with 10 in 2012, tapped 772 this year.
Thank you
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Thanks for the reply. The location I have access to has about 10-20 trees to start, so pretty small. I'm thinking about this as a hobby for now, however maple is the family's primary and go-to sugar source!
State or canada. Give me an area so I can check your weather. My season was 4 weeks long this season. I've had longer but sap ran great. Higher lattitudes may be in season still. If you still have a season left ill send you some old taps and fill you in. If no season left well get you set for next year.
Thank you for the offer. What site or tool is useful to determine when different regions are in season?
Its freezing at night, thaw and sunny in day. Say 25 degli. Night, 38 sunny day. When trees start to bud the weather may be good but sap/syrup will be bad. Also if its getting too warm in day sap is like milk. Keep it 35 degrees and its good, 60 for a day and its bad. Once you tap you have 4 weeks till the tree will heal enough and stop giving sap. Sap comes in runs, nothing for a few days and then will fill a 4 gal bucket in a day. Try and find someone in area that does it. They will know when to tap.
Many thanks, if I don't catch it this year, I'll be ready for next year!