Maple tree rigs on crown land?
- Thread starter Slaymoar
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I guess... at first I thought they were land markers or land tape. Then I looked at my gps and I was nowhere near the limits of the crown land map. I just tripple checked this morning. So when I got closer I saw a large network of tubing gping from tree to tree and ending in large aluminum maple vats or whatever that was.
Near this was a cluster of buildings near the limits of tye crown land, but still smack in the middle. Looked like a business sign from where I was in the bush.
Near this was a cluster of buildings near the limits of tye crown land, but still smack in the middle. Looked like a business sign from where I was in the bush.
They leave the lines up and the spigots in all year round where I live but do not draw sap any time but in the spring. Vacuuming sap can harm the trees, and badly placed lines are bad news for critters, frankly I'd report what I saw.
Even if one got sap this time of year it would not make good syrup or even poor syrup, it would be terrible. Even sap in late spring is no good. The spigots should have all been removed from the trees when the spring run was over. Report what you seen, not that Ministry will ever doo anything about it though. The work of sloppy amateur's for sure.
Captonion: Canada is the worlds largest producer of maple syrup, Quebec actually. Nutrients stored in the maple trees roots are converted into sugars and brought up by the sap in spring when the tree is getting set to produce a new crop of leaves. Clear cold nights and warm sunny days trigger the sap to run. The early season run sap produces the best syrup. As the tree start to produce buds the quality of the sap falls and taints the taste of the sap/syrup. On average it takes 40 gal. of sap make 1 gal of syrup. This is the overly simplified basics.
If your happy with syrup you have made with sap taken in the fall we are all happy for you. The maple trees probably do not share your enthusiasm or the 7000 plus producers in Quebec, plus thousands more in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and Vermont which the USA's largest producer. With all due respect Sir perhaps you should get hold of these folks and tell them the errors of there ways and how there missing out on a whole fall market.
If your happy with syrup you have made with sap taken in the fall we are all happy for you. The maple trees probably do not share your enthusiasm or the 7000 plus producers in Quebec, plus thousands more in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and Vermont which the USA's largest producer. With all due respect Sir perhaps you should get hold of these folks and tell them the errors of there ways and how there missing out on a whole fall market.
Captonion: Canada is the worlds largest producer of maple syrup, Quebec actually. Nutrients stored in the maple trees roots are converted into sugars and brought up by the sap in spring when the tree is getting set to produce a new crop of leaves. Clear cold nights and warm sunny days trigger the sap to run. The early season run sap produces the best syrup. As the tree start to produce buds the quality of the sap falls and taints the taste of the sap/syrup. On average it takes 40 gal. of sap make 1 gal of syrup. This is the overly simplified basics.
If your happy with syrup you have made with sap taken in the fall we are all happy for you. The maple trees probably do not share your enthusiasm or the 7000 plus producers in Quebec, plus thousands more in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and Vermont which the USA's largest producer. With all due respect Sir perhaps you should get hold of these folks and tell them the errors of there ways and how there missing out on a whole fall market.
If your happy with syrup you have made with sap taken in the fall we are all happy for you. The maple trees probably do not share your enthusiasm or the 7000 plus producers in Quebec, plus thousands more in Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, and Vermont which the USA's largest producer. With all due respect Sir perhaps you should get hold of these folks and tell them the errors of there ways and how there missing out on a whole fall market.
tylerjwitty
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- Northern Ontario
Oh boy this might get good !!
I do agree tho i never tried fall syrup. But if it was mentioned that fall syrup and birch syrup were great i would laugh out loud to the point of popping a rib .
Birch syrup tastes like motor oil .
I do agree tho i never tried fall syrup. But if it was mentioned that fall syrup and birch syrup were great i would laugh out loud to the point of popping a rib .
Birch syrup tastes like motor oil .
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Chemainus B.C.
Just asking, is this more of an item for discussion on the off topic forum??Oh my. thank you for the great lesson oh wise one....
Nothing I already didn't know though...
This is the totally wrong opinion made on a guess I was replying to...
Like I said, fall syrup is tasty.. No less tasty than spring... less sugar content meaning it takes more to produce a gallon. That and it is supposed to reduce the spring run.. Yes I make syrup (usually over 100 gallons a yr), have since I was a kid.. Though I don't do it in fall, the neighbour has, and it does indeed taste very good. I tried it out of curiosity because I needed to know, rather than making an uneducated assumption.. You should try it some time! Thanks for coming out..
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