{"id":607,"date":"2019-03-12T21:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T21:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/?p=607"},"modified":"2020-02-08T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:44:21","slug":"tree-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"Tree Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 overnight.\u00a0 Sunny most of the day.\u00a0 By 3:00 PM we were at 40.\u00a0 By 3:30 PM clouds moved in.\u00a0 We get rain Wednesday and Thursday with temperatures in high 40s to maybe low 50s.\u00a0 Should be messy with much snow melt the next days.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-606\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/new.mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20psi-2019-03-12.jpg\" alt=\"20 PSI\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20psi-2019-03-12.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/20psi-2019-03-12-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Doing some science.\u00a0 \u00a0 We connected a pressure gauge to a tap hole to measure tree pressure.\u00a0 As a living organism with sap moving through it, it should have pressure fluctuations.\u00a0 The pressure fluctuations move the sap through the tree.\u00a0 Its our understanding from the maple researchers we should expect to see both positive and negative pressure.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Positive when the sap is flowing for collection and negative at night when the temperature drops below freezing.\u00a0 We going to monitor this.<\/p>\n<p>After tapping and setting up the gauge the pressure rose to 20 PSI.\u00a0 It rose quickly and we could watch the pressure increase.<\/p>\n<p>Brought the R\/O into the woods.\u00a0 The membrane is still in house where its warm.\u00a0 \u00a0We\u2019ll take the membrane out when we are ready to use the R\/O.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 overnight.\u00a0 Sunny most of the day.\u00a0 By 3:00 PM we were at 40.\u00a0 By 3:30 PM clouds moved in.\u00a0 We get rain Wednesday and Thursday with temperatures in high 40s to maybe low 50s.\u00a0 Should be messy with much snow melt the next days. Doing some science.\u00a0 \u00a0 We connected a pressure gauge to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-season-102"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapleacres.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}