{"id":1785,"date":"2024-02-05T17:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T23:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2024-02-05T17:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T23:59:24","slug":"low-sugar-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"Low Sugar Content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Collected 325 gallons, but the sugar content is low again at 1.5 Brix. Normal is 2 Brix. At 1.5 Brix the sap to syrup ratio is 57:1. The R\/O is essential with low sugar. It\u2019s possible sap moved frequently over the winter when we had freeze\/thaw cycles so sugar is depleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 over night. Cloudy and cold most of the day. Temperature did reach 35\/36 but felt colder. The buckets had a light layer of ice. If it was warmer, it would be a good run. Tree pressure up to 8 PSI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the woods by 2:00 PM to wash tanks and run a rinse cycle on the R\/O. Stated collecting by 2:45 PM. Done by 4:30 PM. Back to the farmhouse by 4:45 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collected 325 gallons, but the sugar content is low again at 1.5 Brix. Normal is 2 Brix. At 1.5 Brix the sap to syrup ratio is 57:1. The R\/O is essential with low sugar. It\u2019s possible sap moved frequently over the winter when we had freeze\/thaw cycles so sugar is depleted. 27 over night. Cloudy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-season-107"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}