r/maplesyrup

2nd year boiling, doubled my taps and my yield, this year, ended up with just about 4 gallons from 25 taps in NE Maine. Probably could have done one more boil, but I ran out of wood.

For anyone interested, these are UV PermaStickers from NinjaTransfers. They apply like a cut vinyl decal, but once they are on, have the look and feel of an applied color label.

They might not be quite a durable, but they’re super easy to apply and don’t require any special equipment. I ran a few through the dishwasher and heating to 218° and they all held up perfect.

Pretty economical too, highly recommended.

We had a late season this year that finished up about the first of May (buddy sap though.) This is the first year we tried tubing. We're using 3/16 gravity downhill. It worked out well. I'm planning to add a couple more lines for next season.

Is this how drop lines are intended to be stored for the season? Also, do we need to clean the tubing? I think I read that we can let the first sap next season wash it out, and just dump out the first run. Is that sufficient?

Thanks in advance!

Here are three leaves off trees I tapped this spring, I'm trying to figure out their species. I feel like the far right one is a silver, not so sure on the first two. Anyone happen to know the first two?

We move to a house with some woods in the back this spring was too busy to be able to tap and boil but I’m scouting out trees and hunting for deals for next year is this a tree you guys would put a tap on it would you pass on half of the tree being dead?

Not sure why it’s taken me this long to post, but here’s my very small haul from this year. I tried a dedicated evaporator over a propane stove, instead of pots over a fire pit. I feel like the propane cost isn’t worth it. Next year I’ll build a small evaporator out of cinder blocks, and use free fire wood.

After 2 decent seasons on a homemade barrel evaporator, I had been keeping my eye out on Marketplace and Craigslist, and found a nice 2x3 WF Mason evaporator, fully bricked and had to jump on it!
I’ve got 65 taps and an RO Bucket, so this should help a ton!