Reds

[3rdgen.maple]

400 to 600 is a bit different then me pulling like 10. I just have a few on one section and the rest I use buckets. Cappping them should seal off the tap and it wouldnt be hard to chase down a leak with that few but 600, not sure if I would want to either.

[Dennis H.]

Yes the tees will cap the stubbies. Push the stem of the tee into the stubby and give it a 1/2 twist and you are good. Sysytem is sealed till next season. That is how I check for tubing and mainline leaks during the fall. Fire up the vac and walk the lines.

[NH Maplemaker]

We have talk some about painting all the stubbies that will be on the reds a bright color. That way when we feel it is time to pull the reds it will be very easy to find them to pull and cap!! anyone of my help could do it. Jim L.

[3rdgen.maple]

We have talk some about painting all the stubbies that will be on the reds a bright color. That way when we feel it is time to pull the reds it will be very easy to find them to pull and cap!! anyone of my help could do it. Jim L.

Might be easier to just use a different color tubing for your drops..

[red maples]

difference between sugars and reds is very easy to tell apart. bark and big red buds especially if once you are into the later part of the season. If you tap reds with buckets they will stop and sometimes be picky if would like to run or not and that goes tree to tree. sometimes one might run great 20 feet away that one doesn't feel like it today!!

Put them on Vacuum they just don't stop!!! They run just as good as sugars. And you can get the the same grades as the sugars at the same time It might be a slight bit darker but just like sugars it all depends on the weather, time of season and what the sap compositions has to offer. The one difference that I have seen is as the syrup gets darker(very dark and grade B) it gets a deep redish hue to it. at least mine does anyway. But the flavor still excellent.

[adk1]

well thats good, I prefer Grade A dark amber anyways

[Dave Y]

Red Maples is correct about the color I have a lot of reds and the syrup does have a red tint to it. I have never had my reds bud before they stopped running. They will quit a few days before the sugars. I dont have time to go out and take taps off of reds before the season is over. I pull every thing at once and if the bucket is empty it is empty. Never had aproblem doing it that way.

[Dennis H.]

2 years ago when I had some on buckets it was very interesting to see what the trees do. I had some reds that in about 20 hrs had the 2 gal buckets over flowing and a tree right beside it that had maybe 1/2 gal of sap.

[Russell Lampron]

I tap mostly reds and the season usually ends before the buds are a factor. Like others that tap them my syrup also has a red tint to it and excellent flavor. I have all but 2 of mine on vacuum and get close to 20 gallons of sap per tap per season. One of the reds that I put a bucket on runs just as good as the sugars next to it and the other not so much.

The color samples in the test kit and on the Lovibond disc are more amber colored. This makes the syrup hard to grade. I like the red tint though. The syrup is very pretty to look at as well as drink with a boiling soda.

[Revi]

We have 96% sugars on the tubing, so we just leave the Reds. The Reds are all on the lower end of the lot where we have buckets, so its easy to unplug them and leave the sugars.

We tapped a bunch of Reds across the street on a neighbor's land, but now we have enough buckets near the sugarhouse so we don't really need them any more.

I always like seeing the difference between the different trees. Buckets are good for that. All the bucket trees have names. One is named Ready Red because it wants to make sap early.