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?
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?
41.457 x -72.907 148 elevation
2x4 wood fired evaporator with the "Hercules Blower"
hybrid pan and backflip preheater by Smoky Lake
103 taps. 44 on gravity
All sugar Maples
7" filter press
10 x 12 sugar shack
two very helpful kids
a wife that thinks I'm nuts
https://youtu.be/7MiY8qzBKk8
https://www.wunderground.com/persona...d?ID=KCTCHESH7
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.
absolutely inundated with maple saplings....maybe I can sell them....people will buy anything...lol
41.457 x -72.907 148 elevation
2x4 wood fired evaporator with the "Hercules Blower"
hybrid pan and backflip preheater by Smoky Lake
103 taps. 44 on gravity
All sugar Maples
7" filter press
10 x 12 sugar shack
two very helpful kids
a wife that thinks I'm nuts
https://youtu.be/7MiY8qzBKk8
https://www.wunderground.com/persona...d?ID=KCTCHESH7
How was your sap sugar content this year in relation to previous years?
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
I was close to average. 1.9-2.5% Feb 10th to March 11th in southern CT.
41.457 x -72.907 148 elevation
2x4 wood fired evaporator with the "Hercules Blower"
hybrid pan and backflip preheater by Smoky Lake
103 taps. 44 on gravity
All sugar Maples
7" filter press
10 x 12 sugar shack
two very helpful kids
a wife that thinks I'm nuts
https://youtu.be/7MiY8qzBKk8
https://www.wunderground.com/persona...d?ID=KCTCHESH7
is there a correlation from the amount of seeds which dropped?
41.457 x -72.907 148 elevation
2x4 wood fired evaporator with the "Hercules Blower"
hybrid pan and backflip preheater by Smoky Lake
103 taps. 44 on gravity
All sugar Maples
7" filter press
10 x 12 sugar shack
two very helpful kids
a wife that thinks I'm nuts
https://youtu.be/7MiY8qzBKk8
https://www.wunderground.com/persona...d?ID=KCTCHESH7
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.
Dr. Tim Perkins
UVM Proctor Maple Research Ctr
http://www.uvm.edu/~pmrc
https://mapleresearch.org
Timothy.Perkins@uvm.edu
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.
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Around 300 taps on tubing, 25+ on buckets if I put them out
Mix of natural and mechanical vac, S3 Controller from Mountain Maple
2x6 W.F. Mason with Phaneuf pans
Deer Run 250 RO
Ford F350
6+ hives of bees (if they make it through the winters)
Keeping the day job until I can start living the dream.