I have one tree that is producing brown sap. Any ideas why or if its any good?
Brown Sap
I have one tree that is producing brown sap. Any ideas why or if its any good?
You hit a rotten spot in the tree.
first year 2012 50 taps late season made 2 1/2 gals.
2013 2x6 homemade arch 180 taps. 20 Gals.
2014 40 on 3/16 gravity 160 on buckets.
http://omasranch.wix.com/omasmaple
It's probably not sap. It's probably rainwater or snowmelt that came down from an opening above into dead wood. I had one of those this year and looked up and saw a hollow branch stub.
CE
44° 41′ 3″ N
2019 -- 44 Red Maples - My home and sugarbush are for sale.
2018 -- 48 Red Maples, 7 gallons
2017 -- 84 Red Maples, 1 Sugar Maple, and 1 Silver Maple , 13 gallons
2016 -- 55 Red Maples, 8 gallons
2015 -- 15 Red Maples, 6 Birches - 3+ gallons maple syrup
An awning over my deck is my sugar shack.
An electrified kitchen sink and an electrified steam table pan are my evaporators.
I just noticed the same problem when walking my lines this morning......almost like it has a red tint to it (see pic) definetly not from rain water as they're on lines and from 2 different taps. I was wondering what this was myself.20170309_095055.jpg
Last edited by dunst83; 03-09-2017 at 04:19 PM.
2015 - first year
-10 buckets
-1 buffet pan on cinder block arch
2016 - 50 taps - 30 on buckets, 20 on gravity fed line
-Home made barrel stove evaporator
2017 - 90 taps - 80 on gravity fed line, 10 buckets
-Home made barrel stove evaporator
---1800L sap to 42.2L syrup
2018 - Newly built 12x24 Sugar Shack
- Just purchased new Thor 18x54 evaporator with 5 inch flue pan and reversible syrup pan
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