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  • From: "Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu" <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sweet Sap Sugar Maples
  • Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 22:16:28 -0500


There was an article several years back in the NNGA
Proceedings regarding tapping walnuts and
boxelder/Manitoba maple. I may be misremembering,
but I think in blind taste tests, the boxelder and
black walnut syrup both got better reviews than did
plain old maple syrup.


------- Original Message -------
>From : Richard Harrison[mailto:rharrison922@yahoo.com]
Sent : 5/8/2010 3:05:41 PM
To : nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc :
Subject : RE: Re: [NAFEX] Sweet Sap Sugar Maples

Sarah,
Those prices are ridiculous----by my standards. I
used to be a nurseryman. If I remember correctly Acer
saccharum IS sugar maple rather than silver maple(I
grow sugarcane which is Saccharum species----hence
"sugar"). I have a "yankee" acquaintance who tells me
that even red maple makes good syrup----she prefers
red over sugar maple syrup!
Good luck--and happy waiting! I doubt that 16
trees would make much syrup, though, frankly. Sorry,
don't mean to be discouraging---I make sugarcane
syrup. We get about a 7:1 cook down ration from juice
to syrup--from good cane. Sorghum is grown for syrup
in some parts of Canada. It cooks down about 12:1
maybe and is an annual crop.

Regards,

Richard, NW FL

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


From: Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] Sweet Sap Sugar Maples
To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 2:37 PM


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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