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Originally Posted by Hape2Bhr
Isn't it early for the maple run?
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I'm in NW New Jersey, Highland lakes. Our climate up here at elevation is colder than the rest of NJ(It's why there are two ski resorts) but for us the run starts end of Feb.
It also depends on weather. Tapped last weekend and probably got 5 gallon the next day. That said, the high temp has never been over freezing since. I expect this week we will get a decent run as it's going to be in the high 30s/low 40s during the day and below freezing at night. This is ideal for a run so next weekend will be the first boil.
We only tap 9 trees, 4 of them are doubles. Since this will be our last year at it as we are finally going full time in TV, I wanted to be sure we didn't miss any.
Typically we do up to around 2 gallons of syrup and the last of the run we use for Candy. We typically tap every other year because, frankly even after giving away a lot of syrup we still have some left from last time.