{"id":9811,"date":"2023-02-15T02:48:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=9811"},"modified":"2023-02-15T02:56:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T07:56:26","slug":"2023-maple-season-first-sap-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=9811","title":{"rendered":"2023 Maple Season &#8211; First Sap Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We tapped trees for the last few days and have our first sap collection &#8212; thirteen five-gallon buckets (not <em>completely<\/em> full, but around 4.5 gallons per bucket &#8230; so not 65 gallons but at least 58.5 gallons) waiting to run through the reverse osmosis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230214_185510.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230214_185510-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230214_185510-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230214_185510-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230214_185510-750x1000.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_20230214_185510.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, our starting sap measured around 1.006-1.008 SG at around 50 degrees. The reverse osmosis is running at <em>just<\/em> under 100 psi (at 100 psi, we are not getting any sugar water out). The output sugar water is measuring at 1.022 &#8230; which is 3.7 times as concentrated as before we filtered the sap.<\/p>\n<p>The flow rate is about a gallon every ten minutes, or six gallons an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tapped trees for the last few days and have our first sap collection &#8212; thirteen five-gallon buckets (not completely full, but around 4.5 gallons per bucket &#8230; so not 65 gallons but at least 58.5 gallons) waiting to run through the reverse osmosis. This year, our starting sap measured around 1.006-1.008 SG at around &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[107,108,119,1321,1566],"class_list":["post-9811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maple-sugaring","tag-maple","tag-maple-sap","tag-maple-syrup","tag-maple-trees","tag-reverse-osmosis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9815,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions\/9815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}