buds

[prairietapper]

The buds are getting awfully big here in Central Il.

[mol1jb]

Here in Peoria I haven't seen any buds in my bush of sugar maples. But in my front yard my silver maples have large buds. What kind of maples are you seeing buds?

[TreeTapper2]

Reds and silvers are the only ones swelling up right now. As long as you don't hit a string of 60 degree or more days they won't pop. We have a deep freeze coming that will probably kill some buds here. Two years ago the silver maple buds popped then we went into a deep freeze. It killed them all and extended the season for another 300gallons of sap.

[dogpatch]

Same here. I have 1 silver in my yard with buds but none of my sugars are budding. Cold weather is going to give us another good run.

[prairietapper]

silvers, but I have those tapped too :) It just seems early to me