10 overnight. Sunny most of the day. By 3:00 PM we were at 40. By 3:30 PM clouds moved in. We get rain Wednesday and Thursday with temperatures in high 40s to maybe low 50s. Should be messy with much snow melt the next days.
Doing some science. We connected a pressure gauge to a tap hole to measure tree pressure. As a living organism with sap moving through it, it should have pressure fluctuations. The pressure fluctuations move the sap through the tree. Its our understanding from the maple researchers we should expect to see both positive and negative pressure. Positive when the sap is flowing for collection and negative at night when the temperature drops below freezing. We going to monitor this.
After tapping and setting up the gauge the pressure rose to 20 PSI. It rose quickly and we could watch the pressure increase.
Brought the R/O into the woods. The membrane is still in house where its warm. We’ll take the membrane out when we are ready to use the R/O.
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