Amount of red maple sap

[Johnny Yooper]

I tap what I have and most are soft maple, about 70 of them and about 10 hard maple; they all run about the same in my woods, as far as sugar content, noticeably higher for me this year - I was 49 to 1 last year sap/syrup and 38 to 1 this year, same trees, same everything except this past winter was a doozy....could that have had an effect?

[Mr. Red Maple]

I tap what I have and most are soft maple, about 70 of them and about 10 hard maple; they all run about the same in my woods, as far as sugar content, noticeably higher for me this year - I was 49 to 1 last year sap/syrup and 38 to 1 this year, same trees, same everything except this past winter was a doozy....could that have had an effect?

I think the trees may have stored more sugar in the longer winter. It may have built up over the long winter then got released all at once.

[Drew Pond Maple]

My sap was 2.4% in the begining and fell to 1.6% or even a little less in the end. I gathered 1570 gallons of sap and made 25 gal of syrup. Last year had almost the same %'s

Mr Red Maple where in NH are you located?