I then color coded every day when the high temperature was 36 degrees Fahrenheit or above in dark green.
#MAPLE TREES IN PENNSYLVANIA CODE#
This first chart will be a bit hard to read, but what I did was color code every day where the low temperature of the day was 30 degrees Fahrenheit in lime green. I don’t want that to happen to me again, and I don’t want it to happen to you, either, if you can help prevent it.Īfter the season was over, I collected weather data from Penn State, to add to my own personally collected data, in order to help diagnose exactly what happened and what I should have done differently. I tapped my tree on Valentine’s day (Feb 14), but the result was that the season was very short. Due to COVID-related cabin fever, my expectations were super high. I’m not going to maple sugar coat this…the 2021 maple syrup season was almost a complete bust for me. Figuring out when the best time to tap the trees is maddening Executive summary: how was the 2021 maple syrup season? Your weather won’t be the same as mine here, but perhaps you can make a few adjustments based on your own climate to triangulate on a successful time to start. My goal with this article and the one I started in 2019, is to share the details with you, so that you can use this information to decide for yourself when the best time to tap trees is. When, exactly, is that? Given the fact that the season is only about 6 to 8 weeks long, being wrong by a few weeks can put a serious dent in how much sap you will actually collect. That’s actually good advice, but not really specific enough to be very helpful. When I started out, the only information available was some vague notions about the right time of year when temperatures are routinely above freezing during the day and below freezing at night. Making maple syrup from maple sap collected with a tap kit is relatively easy to do, but the hardest part is figuring out when to tap your trees. I grew up as a city-kid, in Northeast Philadelphia, so it never really occurred to me that you could make your own maple syrup from the ‘regular’ maple trees in your yard.
I started this website in 2019, to document my foray into this new, sweet hobby. Throughout the season, I updated this article with the actual amounts of sap that I collected from the silver maple tree in my yard, in the Philadelphia suburbs.Īfter the season was completely over, I edited and summarized here to create this overview of the 2021 Maple Syrup Season in Pennsylvania. If you want to find out what’s happening in 2022 you may want to jump over to that article here. I started this post in January 2021, as a journal-style article as I got ready for the (at that time) upcoming 2021 Maple Syrup Season.
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