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    Default Sweet Sap Silver Maple

    Hey Folks!
    Everyone here needs to learn about these! They are sold exclusively at St. Lawrence Nursery Catalog.

    Maple Syrup producers lake note!
    Sweet Sap Silver Maple - 3 to 4 ft. trees $17.00 each.
    10 or more $ 15 each, 100 or more $12 each
    Our Sweet Sap is a special selection of Acer saccharinum that
    produces sap with a sugar coefficient of 3 to 5%. (Sugar maples run
    about 2 to 2.5%.) The advantage to the syrup maker is less time
    collecting, hauling and boiling down sap. Silver maples will grow on
    wetter soils than sugar maples and they are much faster growers,
    becoming tappable in 8 to 10 years. They are also tolerant of clay
    soils. Discovered in Canada by Cedric Larson , and propagated via
    tissue culture.
    trees@sln.potsdam.ny.us
    www.sln.potsdam.ny.us
    2011 and prior
    40+ gravity
    transport to a friends evap
    borrowed 4 wheeler as a mule

    2012
    40 Gravity (buckets and main line tubing)
    Boil over open oan
    Borrowed 4-wheeler as a mule

    2013
    50+ taps
    2X3 Evap from A&A Metal Shop
    Barn built from pallets
    borrowed 4-wheeler.

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    Quote Originally Posted by theschwarz1 View Post
    Hey Folks!
    Everyone here needs to learn about these! They are sold exclusively at St. Lawrence Nursery Catalog.

    Maple Syrup producers lake note!
    Sweet Sap Silver Maple - 3 to 4 ft. trees $17.00 each.
    10 or more $ 15 each, 100 or more $12 each
    Our Sweet Sap is a special selection of Acer saccharinum that
    produces sap with a sugar coefficient of 3 to 5%. (Sugar maples run
    about 2 to 2.5%.) The advantage to the syrup maker is less time
    collecting, hauling and boiling down sap. Silver maples will grow on
    wetter soils than sugar maples and they are much faster growers,
    becoming tappable in 8 to 10 years. They are also tolerant of clay
    soils. Discovered in Canada by Cedric Larson , and propagated via
    tissue culture.
    trees@sln.potsdam.ny.us
    www.sln.potsdam.ny.us
    8 to 12 years they are tappable...hmmm...might try a few!
    2012- Can't Remember 1st year...
    2013- 41 taps made 13 Gallons of Syrup
    2014- 20 taps made 5.5 Gallons of Syrup
    2015- 43 Taps made 10 Gallons of Syrup
    2016- 43 Taps...

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