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  • From: Richard Harrison <rharrison922@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sweet Sap Sugar Maples
  • Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 19:04:36 -0700 (PDT)

Sarah,
     We have a type of black gum here known as the tupelo tree from which very delicious honey comes. I would think that black gum might be hardier than sweet gum---but it all depends on where the seed came from: the further North being the better for you, of course.
                                                                                    Richard
Sweet gum leaves are like maple.

--- On Sat, 5/8/10, Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sweet Sap Sugar Maples
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 9:00 PM

We usually have between 90 and 120 frost free days: sometimes its only 30!  Supposedly because we have such long days and its often very hot we can grow things in less days than short day folk, but that seems to work better in theory from my experience.

I'm trying a Black gum tree this year so maybe a Sweet gum is next.

Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB

--- On Sun, 5/9/10, Richard Harrison <rharrison922@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Richard Harrison <rharrison922@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sweet Sap Sugar Maples
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Received: Sunday, May 9, 2010, 1:54 AM

Sarah,
    Sugarcane won't grow for you there. Sweet sorghum will only grow where there is at least about 80 days of growing season----for the shortest season varieties.
    As for sugar maples, a fairly large North Florida wholesale nursery used to sell them here in the 1980's or later. Don't know if amy survived when planted here, but they shipped everywhere. They are out of business now.
    I wonder about sweet gum trees? They grow everywhere here. They like wet soils. They resemble silver maple. "Old timers" used to score the tree and get "chewing gum" from the sap. The "original chewing gum". It should be sweet---maybe sweeter than maple, I would think because it congeals on the bark.
                                                    Regards,
                                                    Richard




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