maple seeds

[lafite]

I've lived in the same location for 16 years. I have never seen the amount of sugar maple seeds that have fallen than this year. Anyone else seeing the same thing?

[Calycanthus]

I've noticed high seed rates for maple species (sugar, silver, red, box elder) as well as hickory, walnut, red bud, black locust, and kousa and flowering dogwood. I have not noticed large crops from oak, elm, or beech. nor from ash, but i sorta put them in a category of their own due to other issues.

It's hard to say more than ever, because our minds are clued in to process the recent and forget the past.

[lafite]

absolutely inundated with maple saplings....maybe I can sell them....people will buy anything...lol

[DrTimPerkins]

How was your sap sugar content this year in relation to previous years?

[lafite]

I was close to average. 1.9-2.5% Feb 10th to March 11th in southern CT.

[lafite]

is there a correlation from the amount of seeds which dropped?

[DrTimPerkins]

A connection has been suggested and one analysis (a rather dubious one) found a negative association, but I don’t put much stock in that piece of work. The researchers estimated sap sugar content from syrup production. A better analysis is on my list for this year.

[SeanD]

A connection has been suggested and one analysis (a rather dubious one) found a negative association, but I don’t put much stock in that piece of work. The researchers estimated sap sugar content from syrup production. A better analysis is on my list for this year.

Thanks for reviving this thread. I think it's good to return with result when we speculate on cause/effect. I had a slightly heavier than normal seed year and my sap averaged 2.0% until the final week when it dropped to 1.7%. That's typical for me. Curiously, some trees produced a lot of seeds and others not so much. It wasn't a wide-spread year of seeds. FWIW.