I never noticed that, but the tree that had red buds and dropped them is likely a red maple and the other could be some other. If it is a sugar maple, they bud later, but mine are all budded now. Occasionally a tree will have a delay, but the sap you removed is not the cause. Even a tree with major damage from a chainsaw or storm damage which causes it to lose a huge volume of sap, the remaining limbs or stems will still bud and leaf out.
The red may have had it's buds freeze after the "early summer" but it is likely OK, as is the other, as long as you know both gave sap. If you used one line of tubing to tap both into a single container, it is possible the one was dead, if you know both gave sap it is alive.
Last edited by maple flats; 04-05-2012 at 05:07 AM.
Dave Klish, I recently bought a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
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