Love all the pictures of the trees here @kansuze 😉 well.. I live in a country where no fall seasons but only cattapa trees that show its changing colour once a year. What a stunning views.. anyway about your sugar maple, doest it still produce the sap for maple syrup during this season?
The sugar maple only produces sap in the spring when the days become warm and the nights are still below freezing temperatures. The sap looks almost like water and tastes slightly sweet so it must be boiled to make syrup. It takes 40 gallons (181.84 lites) of sap to produce 1 gallon (4.55 litres) of maple syrup.
Whooaaa.. can a tree produces up to 40 gallons on spring time? Uhmm.. never saw any maple sap or taste the maple syrup before.. I'm curious
A very big tree can produce that much but usually they only put one tap in the tree and they take about 20 gallons. They used to hang buckets on the trees but now they run plastic tubing around.
Just like what people does with the sugar palm trees I guess😊 you can take all the sap along the year.. because they do need to rest just like us.