Light rain overnight. Foggy until Noon, then partly cloudy. Temperature in the low 50s. Not great weather to start the season. It’s not the snow covered idyllic and picturesque woods scenes associated maple syrup season. We didn’t have much snow cover and it’s all melted now. Frost is still in.
Connected the hoses on the R/O. It’s ready for the membrane.
Collected 160 gallons of sap. It won’t keep when the weather is this warm, so get it while it’s good. 2.1 Brix.
We had our sap hydrometers tested. They under-report Brix by 0.6. The sap hydrometer measured 1.5 Brix. With the 0.6 correction, the sap is 2.1 Brix. We noticed in past years that the sap collected didn’t agree well with the final amount of syrup. An inaccurate sap hydrometer could account for this discrepancy.
Tomorrow the weather starts to cool. We need freezing nights to get the sap flowing.