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  • From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
  • To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Sweet Sap Sugar Maples
  • Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 12:37:29 -0700 (PDT)

I bought 16 of these Sweet Sap sugar Maples from T&T Seeds this year. Iā€™m
very happy with the trees: straight 3-4ā€™ trunks with some branches and ok
roots (look like they were in gallon pots before having the dirt washed off
them). I'm a little worried about them liking things wetter than normal
sugar maples as wet is not a normal problem for us Albertans.

So anyone have any planting advice like how far apart to put them? And does
anyone have any other information about them or sugar maple stuff in
general... like a good website with tapping info?

I googled them and copied this info from St. Lawrence Nursery
www.sln.potsdam.ny.us.

Thanks

Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB

Sweet Sap Silver Maple ā€” Acer saccharinum, C. Larson selection
3 to 4 ft. trees $22.00 each, 100 or more $15 each
A special selection of Acer saccharinum that produces sap with a sugar
content of 3 to 5%. (Sugar maples run about 2 to 2.5%) The advantage to the
syrup maker is less time collecting, hauling and boiling down sap. Silver
Maples will grow on wetter soils than sugar maples and they are much faster
growers, becoming tappable in about 8 to 10 years. They are also tolerant of
clay soils. Discovered in Canada by Cedric Larson, and propagated via tissue
culture.








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