
Originally Posted by
Kh7722
I am also on all reds and have a full bank 7” press. Early in season i can easily get 30-40 gallons through it. As season goes on it drops just like everyone else with sugars. For whatever reason almost everyone in our area is making darker than normal syrup this year. Being all reds made we still light last year, definitely not the trees, i would say congratulations on being all reds!! The haters will hate, but we all know that red maples are superior

In my woods I have a mix of reds and sugars at both locations I tap trees at. This year I tapped both the reds and sugars and if I could only tap one it would be the sugars. They run better and here in the southern end of the mid Hudson valley and southwestern CT, the sugars are back in "sugaring" mode with a crazy cold spell in the first week of April.
As I see it the only reason anybody should be tapping Reds is if they don't have any or enough sugars to tap.
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