Maple Syrup 2024

Sure looks to me like tapping season is here. Perfect weather forecast for the next two weeks.

I put 20 taps in this weekend and only 2 were wet. Still a little early here in the area north of Duluth. We are always a week or two behind everywhere else.

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

I put 20 taps in this weekend and only 2 were wet. Still a little early here in the area north of Duluth. We are always a week or two behind everywhere else.

Good to know. We never got around to tapping, put a bunch of miles on the sled, ran to the cities to help a friend with a project, went fishing, and lastly one of the boys came down with the barf/diarrhea bug yesterday.

So now I know what my plans will probably be sometime this week (blowing chunks and shitting my pants too). Yey

buckybadger wrote:

The neighbors stopped by last night and said they are putting out one round of taps this weekend to see what things do. We don’t have many mature maples near the house out here, but I told them to have at it if they find a tree they like.

32-49 degree temps every day for the next 8 days here, with temps at night in the 20s and low 30s. I’ve got a feeling the temps could overachieve once this snow is gone early next week and the dark ground is out to soak in the sun.

Update: I stopped next door and the sap was flowing. We are a couple miles off of Pool 4. It’s definitely “go” time for now. The coolest day in the 10 day forecast is 38 with nighttime lows in the mid 20s to low 30s.

I just tapped a few trees, two trees were slowy dripping. I would expect this week they will start flowing like crazy.

B-man wrote:

Good to know. We never got around to tapping, put a bunch of miles on the sled, ran to the cities to help a friend with a project, went fishing, and lastly one of the boys came down with the barf/diarrhea bug yesterday.

So now I know what my plans will probably be sometime this week (blowing chunks and shitting my pants too). Yey

Ya I’m not sure where you’re located but my theory is the abnormally low snowpack for most of the winter along with the severe cold stretches pushed the frost a little deeper than most years, so I think it will be a few days before the trees “wake up”. Thats my theory at least.

A buddy in Eau Claire tapped over the weekend, they are dripping. I won’t tap this year due to travel plans. Going to miss it.