What maples do you tap?

[lyford]

Just out curiosity what types of maples do you tap? For myself about 95% reds, 3% sugars, and 2% silvers. Just wondering how many of us use such a high percentage of soft maples.

[Super Sapper]

I had 136 taps last year and they were roughly evenly split between sugar, red and silvers. I did have 2 box elder also.

[ennismaple]

99.9% sugars. I believe we have one soft maple tapped in a wet area somewhere.

[Thompson's Tree Farm]

I tap about 65% sugars and 35% reds. About 8000 taps total.

[jrgagne99]

The majority of mine are reds, >80%. They make great syrup!

[RileySugarbush]

100% Sugar maples

[whalems]

I tap the ones with Maple leafs on them!:lol: never was very good at telling the difference.

[cncaboose]

1 silver, 3% reds, 97% sugars

[madmapler]

90% sugar,10%reds

[sjdoyon]

100% sugar maples, no other types of maples on our land.

[BreezyHill]

99.9% sugar, only a few soft maple. No reds on the farm as they are poisonous to horses. My wife would tap me if one of them died from a maple tree. She would use the 12 ga makes a nice clean hole. LOL

[sapman]

About 70% red/silver, almost 30% sugar.

[Dave Y]

50/50 red / sugar

[Kyle M]

couple norways, couple reds, 2 silvers

[bowhunter]

90+% sugar maples with a few red maples.

[Ren]

95% sugars, 5% silver. I do have a couple of Norways but have not tapped them.

[Homestead Maple]

100% acer saccharum. :D Acer rubrum don't seem to grow in the area where I tap. I don't know why.

[Revi]

95% sugars and 5% reds. We say "Reds are maples too".

[maple flats]

All sugars on my 2 leases, but I have 3 laterals that are reds around my sugarhouse. I have them on separate laterals so they can more easily be removed as their buds pop and the sugars can keep going. In total I have only about 15 red taps out of about 1250 total.

[jimsudz]

90% sugar and 10% reds

[southfork]

2,500 taps to date. About 80% sugar, 20% red.

[Michael Greer]

Tap them all, and then pay attention while gathering. Some will run earlier or later in the season, some will run with different kinds of weather, and occasionally, you'll get a tree that just isn't worth tapping. That tree can be of any type, and if the pattern continues, put it in the firebox. Make a space for another tree.

[mike z]

All Sugar.

[Run Forest Run!]

I tap Sugar, Norway, Manitoba (also referred to as Box Elder), Silver and Freeman Maples. I check the sugar content of the sap all through the season and not a single variety underproduces. This past year, I ran out of energy before the trees run out of sap. :D

[Drew Pond Maple]

About 25% sugars and 75% reds.
I was dealt a lot of reds, so that is what I tap. A little less sap but still makes delicious syrup.

[wwright]

Just out curiosity what types of maples do you tap? For myself about 95% reds, 3% sugars, and 2% silvers. Just wondering how many of us use such a high percentage of soft maples.

We tap 100% reds 800 taps on vacuum. Reds are all we have on our farm they make nice syrup vacuum is the key

[gmcooper]

We tap about 75% reds 25% sugars and only a couple silvers and a couple Norways out of 1600+.

[bobsklarz]

365 taps, all Hard Maple.

[Rossell's Sugar Camp]

I tap 500 taps. about 80 % sugar

[maineboiler]

About 50/ 50 sugar and red maples. I am thinning the woods I have to develop more sugars. Nothing beats a good sugar maple with lots of sun.

[maple maniac65]

the ones that are alive and still give sap