Planting Maple Trees
Well I know they will probally never get to Tapping Size in my lifetime but I can get 100 Sugar Maples, 12-18" for $70. I know it will make someone Happy when I'm an old Man!
I can also get Red Maples for the Same Price. Do they grow faster and are they worth planting so I can maybe Tap them in the next 20 years?
Sure wish I could do something to plant some bigger sugar Maples I could tap in 12 years as I can retire early in 12 years...ANything?
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...
Don, Red maples grow much faster than sugars. They also are more tolerant of moist (wet) soil.
1000 taps on vac down to 100+ buckets 99% sugars
2x5 SL Hi-Output Raised Flue Corsair evaporator
SL Short bank press with CDL diaphragm pump
Leader Micro 1 RO for 2024
Constantly changing
2010:36 gal 2011:126 gal 2012:81 gal 2013:248 gal 2014: 329.5 gal 2015:305 gal 2016:316 gal 2017:258 gal 2018:147 gal 2019:91 gal 2020:30 gal 2021:30 gal 2023:50 gal Total since 2010: 2047.5 gal
Tapping the same trees my great, great and great grandfathers tapped.
So... No matter how fast they Grow I am gonna plant 100 Sugar Maples, Maybe 200. I'm going to have a Sugar Shack eventually and when I'm old an grey if I don't have a relative to leave it to my will is gonna say it has to be sold to someone that is gonna continue the Maple Tradition.
As far as the Red Maples... If I plant 100 of them in a few rows when could I expect to be able to Tap them (years)?
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...
I own 16 acres and 8 of it is open field. I was going to do the same thing and from what i gather its about 30-35 years on a sugar maple. They avarage about a ft. per year. where did you find that deal on the trees?
24x56 heavy timber post and beam sugar house. 2013 CDL 2.5x8 deluxe airtight raised flue 750 taps on vacuum. CDL reverse osmosis, Wes Fab 7" full bank press. Eastern Maine CDL sales rep.
if you maintain them well and everything, the reds probably 10-15 yrs depending on what size you start with, sugars if maintained well about 15-20. there was a thread on sbi about someone who planted maples in a field and was tapping then 20 yrs later
Spencer Carney
350 taps
phaneuf 2x4 with hybrid pan
2-350 gal, 5-55 gal drums, and a cage tank
only 16 yr old at school making syrup!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carney...3279081?ref=hl
12-18" , tap them now man ! That is plenty large enough for at least one tap.Originally Posted by DonMcJr
The Trees are Saplings 12-18" Tall...
Local Conservation District for my County in Michigan. You order them now and pick them up in April...
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...
Ha! I knew you'd get around to it!
“A sap-run is the sweet good-bye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.”~John Burroughs, "Signs and Seasons", 1886
backyard mapler since 2006 using anything to get the job done from wood stove to camp stove to even crockpots.
2012- moved up to a 2 pan block arch
2013- plan to add another hotel pan and shoot for 5-6 gallons
Thinking small is best for me so probably won't get any bigger.
I asked them last year to get Sugar Maples this year...and they DID!
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...
i was also looking for some trees, do they ship?
Spencer Carney
350 taps
phaneuf 2x4 with hybrid pan
2-350 gal, 5-55 gal drums, and a cage tank
only 16 yr old at school making syrup!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carney...3279081?ref=hl
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