Maple Tree Identification - Make Maple Syrup - GardenFork
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In this video I help you find sugar maple trees and start making syrup. Be sure not to use sap from Norway Maples, it wont work.
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Also worth mentioning is that you can also tap Box elder maples and Silver maples. If you happen to find Striped maples that are big enough, you can tap those as well.
Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy all of your videos. I've been watching for years now. Keep up the great work. Very informative.
thanks for the kind words Tom, appreciate that.
Great vidéo.
Cheers from a French Canadian maple syrup inthusiant from eastern Ontario.
Thanks for the videos- Love watching them. I have been tapping Norway maples for several years and the syrup is just as good as sugar maple syrup but your probably right in thats its a bit more labor intensive.
I'm so glad I found your bee video's and hook up for emails I loved this video on sugar maple and just learning the difference is amazing I love learning new things and now I want to have sugar maples.
This was just what I was looking for ,you did a good job explaining. Thank you.
hey bud, One state over, Thanks for the help, New England has some of the best syrup. (but here we have coffee syrup)
I wish I would have came across your videos long ago!! I subbed look forward to learning many new things from y'all. Thank you
Thanks for the video. I learnt something that I did not know before; you are a great teacher.
Very cool video. Thanks for the information
great video, we tap sugar maple trees in western Kentucky. Short season. About 7-8 wks depending on weather. Thanks keep the videos rolling
did not know you could tap trees there. thx for that.
So glad I found your videos. Always looking for more people in CT that garden. I'm in Wolcott. Once the leaves are out I hope to do a search for some maple trees. This video will help.
Also watched your garlic video planting in the mulch. I also do back to eden gardening.
Thanks! Dave
Hi Dave, good to hear, building a new sap evaporator next week Thx!
Thank man! This will help for next years collection
Great video, thank you for posting.
Very informative! Thank you for posting
That was great knowledge you have n know on maple trees!! Thank you so much!! I'm trying to learn as much as possible about the outdoors for when I do purchase off grid. A million thank you's!!
Best to find the sugar maples in summer and fall Christy, mbe ask a neighbor who taps trees to help you. thx! Eric.
I grew up in Northern New Hampshire with a Sugar Maple Grove and 100 - 150 year old sugar house. The land was always Wet, or damp even in dry summers, because of water run-off over close to the surface bedrock which including a small, near-by brook in the midst of the unique stony glacial till; making that forest area close to a swamp, but not. The fields stopped just short of where the Sugar Maple Grove started. Old trees were up to three feet diameter, and very tall. We always tried to tap directly under big branches, rotating tap positions year-by-year. ||| Yes, never more than three taps per tree.
Thank you! I learned something new!
Hey bud thanks for the video really helpful so thanks and I have subscribed to your channel ;)
Thanks, good explanation of the rounded curve AND the bark. My "old girls" are much too old for tapping now, losing limbs, so I need to identify the youngsters out in the back 40.
very helpful and informative thanks for the tips. can't wait to tap my sugar maple next spring. I feel so canadian
Oh Canada!
Very informative. Thankyou. 😊
The part between the leaf lobes are called sinuses. Great video, very informative!
Did not know that Sidney, thx!
thanks
Great video! I'm trying to learn to ID different trees and I think the maple is a good one to start with.
yeah!
Last march, I decided to tap some of the trees in my southern maine yard. I used a mix of sugar maple, red maple, and Norway maple and our ratio was just about 45 to 1. The sugar in the Norways varied from 1 to 4 percent, so the range for Norway sugar content varies, but you can tap them, and it will usually make a good syrup similar to the sugar maple
interesting! we have so many sugar maples here its not an issue. thx!
great vid. you just got another subscriber sir. thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Yeah!
i love your channel so much! you're a really good guy 👍👍👍❤
thanks! please tell your friends, its the best way to get the word out!
Thank-you for the nice video. I use to live in New Jersey when I was a kid. Now I live in California. How I miss the maple trees and oak trees. However, I miss real maple syrup the most.
I was born and raised in Southern California, spent my adult life in Sacramento CA. We had "heritage oak trees " in the subdivision. That designation meant the oaks were over 100 inches around. They were all massive very old trees . You had to get a certified arborist to take care of an y issues the trees had. Also couldn't plant flowers/ shrubs etc. underneath these giants due to probable overwatering of the oaks. I've lived all over California and oaks are very common.
@@marykrupsky8795 I love oak trees. We use to have them and maple trees in New Jersey. We use to take the caps off the nuts and make a whistle out of them. We would save the nuts for winter and feed them to the birds and any squirrels that were still awake.. :-)
Great video thanks for all the info.
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Also , I also want to let you know I enjoy your videos also . Anything I point out is not to ridicule but to help . Thanks
its all good! i get lots of people who want to tap the maple tree in their yard and its usually a silver maple, so i wanted to make this vid. thx!
Great Video
I am getting closer and closer to getting bees next year. Right now we are working on figuring out how to keep the Bears out. Watching you talk maple syrup is getting me pumped for next season - have a good one
bears happen. best thing is to not have bird feeders, unfortunately. and keep the trash cans in the garage.
Yep no bird feeders. Nothing is more annoying than listening to a bear trying to chirp.
Flying bears are the worst - we actually follow the November 1st to April 1st bird feeders out. Then take them down April to October. Works well for us in our area
yes! i put out suet during the freezing months high up on a cable and pulley but thats it.
Good one, that keeps the raccoons and maybe squirrels out of the bird food. Will's flying bears is another problem.
Good interesting video.
Very good educational video. You made understanding the Maples easy. I have a red Maple tree in my yard, I never knew it could produce maple syrup. As for honey bees No No i stay away from them ,after learning about their barbed stingers. Thanks for posting.
thx! there are a few maples that people call Red Maples, be sure you have the right one. the Japanese Maples that have red leaves will not work.
I live in Springfield, MA. Good afternoon I found this video by chance. I have doubts about a plant that is invasive. It is several parts in my garden and some people tell me that it is maple tree. I have some photos that I would like you to see and clarify my doubts.
Thank you mister
As always very interesting, even if I never ever tap a maple tree. At least I now know where the syrup on my pancakes comes from.
there you go! real maple syrup is great!
Thank you!
Thanks for sharing about the 🍁 maple tree! I've never really seen them before, but I like maple trees! Also, are there other kinds of maple trees?
Yes, depends on where you live. Thx!
Norway maple versus sugar maple leaves is my most difficult differentiation. I just got through looking at maple trees for a few hours, and thought I found sugar maple, but it looks like I found norway maple. They still look so similar to me. I cant wait to find a sugar maple leaf so I can have a good comparison. Looks like they are not many around here. Thanks!
Norway maples are everywhere! Sugar maples are mainly in northern climates. Thx!
Thanks for sharing the information. I don't think Sugar Maples grow in Central Texas. I do enjoy learning about this and bees.
Yeah, i don't think sugar maples are in TX, but here is our newest bee vid: th-cam.com/video/4MzPeNMKU9g/w-d-xo.html thx! eric.
If I'm not sure if it's a sugar maple,will it hurt me or the tree if I try it. Thanks for the great tutorial
Thanks for the tips!! I can identify a maple tree but a sugar maple tree is another story. lol. Now I know the difference.
once you start seeing sugar maples, they stand out pretty good, red maples too. thx!
Hi Eric....glad I watched this video before I bought the Bark book...I found out I do have one sugar maple on my property....I measured it and it's 33 inches in diameter....but I'm not sure if I want to tap it...with two taps I might get a quart if syrup,plus I have to boil it down...I think I,'ll just buy it...thx anyway.
yeah, one tree wont do it but glad you are looking!
Hi. Can you drink the juice of the tree without boiling? How many days can it last (the juice from the red acer maple and sugar acer maple trees) without boiling?
Thanks
Thanks for the indetificatoin
yes we can. our season is from January to about the 2ND week in March. depending on weather.
ours is a bit later, its starts around Presidents Day, thx!
Just an FYI the sugar content of a Norway Maple is 1.7 % , a sugar maple at 2% . I tap my norway maples
thanks for that Dave, i couldn't find info on the sugar content of the Norways. good to know. eric.
Norway maples likely have higher sugar content than soft maple?
Sadly most of our maple trees have sharper cuts but can plant these maples trees in Kashmir ? But it's November right now and winter is coming and colour of leves are dark red ,does that means it's red 🍁
I love all your videos and, also living in Connecticut (Newtown), it's easier for me to use your videos as references in regards to times of the year which to do things. To me it is definitely worth being a patron to help contribute to the making of the videos. Keep up the great work!
wow thanks! eric.
cool Thank you
I heard a cat bird in the distance just as you picked the leaf. Great video.
all sorts of wildlife around here, thx!
what direction is best to tap? facing the sun?
Love your videos!!! Me and my wife watch them when we are feeding our new baby. My father in-law is also a eclectic diy guy. he just got bees and is working through keeping them alive in the winter. I'm going to encourage him to start tapping his sugar maples here in Ohio!
good to hear! for your father in law, this vid, and the one that plays right after it, are how i get bees through winter now. it works really well. watch both to see it all. thx!
vid link: th-cam.com/video/STgC2WvZRMU/w-d-xo.html
Thank you! 👌
happy to help!
Is sugar maple branches safe for barbecue?
Good talk!
This is the best time to identify sugar maples, before the leaves drop. thx!
Anyway nice video
I was looking to see if the tree has white blossoms
An easy way to tell the difference between a Norway and Sugar maple is by looking at the winged seed leaves (Samara). Sugar maple seed leaves look like a horse shoe (wings point down), where as Norway maple look like coat hangers (wings sweep outward).
good point, i did not bring up the seed leaves, thanks for that!
Tell a tree by it's bark? Hells Bells if I heard a tree bark I would sign the pledge.
Switch your trays so your moving left to right! Pot to boiling tray to finishing tray!!
Otherwise when refilling you’re boiling tray your carrying/ladling across your finish pan (drip drip splash into!)
Me puedes enviar semillas ???
I love Norway Maple milk.
We have red maples in Louisiana but not sure if it gets cold enough to produce anything.
Hi James, yeah, it does not get cold enough down south. the trees need a hard frost followed by warm days, sunlight hitting the trunks. thx!
So how do you decide what maples to actually tap? Like i tried some 10 feet off a river very slow, but 50 feet up off the river is producing fairly fast?
I don't have the secret, its all trial and error. I have some maples that do great and others barely run. ERic.
@@gardenfork the next day after i sent that, all my jars was over flowing, for my first time tapping in 4 days i got 12 gallons from 17 spiles, i am in idaho and we have been have a lot of cold snaps. Seems the morning flows the best slows down throughout the day. Today i only pulled 1 1/2 gallons, the past 2 days i came out with 5 gallons plus a quart or 2. My south facings taps definitely produced the most, next season i want to use the newer taps with the hose like you showed. I went old school this year. Ever tried birch trees?? I want to tap them next year i have A LOT of "river" birch or "sugar" birch. I don't have any European white birch or paper birch.
Onde encontrar a maple tree em sites??
I have a couple silver maples
Can sugar maples get ambrosia? I salvaged a tree from the recycler, i think its a maple just not sure what one. I know its not a silver maple because i have one next to it. The bark looks like sugar maple with chocolate colored bark underneath.
+Pat Matt Hi Pat, sorry I don't know. Thx!
What do you use to mark the trees? Ribbon, paint, tape etc...
i use plastic ribbon to mark new ones, but many I already know from years of maple tapping. thx!
Did the tapping kill it???
Is there any sugar maple in Pakistan?
anything I have read says a silver maple is 50 to 1 . People do tap them , but like you say the sugar maple is the gold standard . I was going to tap my birch trees last year but health reasons prevented that. That season starts right after the sugar maple season . That is a ratio of 80 to 100 to one . Not much is made and it is very expensive. I only put out 50 taps and couldn't find them so I bought 50 More and guess what , I found the other 50. If try the Birch , I will let you know how it turned out. I started to make a sugar bush on my folks property 40 years ago and relized if I don't do it know I will never do it. Take care . I'm up here in New Hampshire.
i've never tapped Silver Maple but i've read on several univeristy agricultural extension sites that the sap is milky and will not work. but that's all i know about that. i lose stuff all the time too. be sure to run wire to support the lines when the sap lines cross a long distance, or they will droop and freeze.
Silver maple sap is crystal clear and works very well for making syrup. The only issue with silvers is a slight shorter season, since they tend to bud out a bit earlier.
Average Ratios I found online:
Norway Maple 50:1
Sugar Maple 35:1
Black Maple 40:1
Red Maple 45:1
Silver Maple 50:1
The ratios vary quite a bit, it all depends on locality. I have read higher ratios for the Norway maples, which would mean lots of boiling. We tap sugar maples and red maples.
@@gardenfork thanks
I just bought a maple trees and the seller don’t know what type of maple tree it is. It has red stem of the leaves.
You can tap a Norway Maple, the sugar content is similar to soft maple (red/silver maple), it's perfectly fine. You are simply wrong.
Sugar maples are well known for their 40:1 ratio, I never tried a red maple, what's the ratio for those?
I believe 50:1
yes, its a higher ratio, and some people wont tap red maples, saying it can give an off flavor, but my neighbors and i have not had an issue.
How is homemade maple syrup compared to store bought?
its amazing. maple pancake syrup in the store is basically corn syrup with a few flavors added. thx!
Why thanks for the information now I'm definitely going to make it.
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1:23 that's called a sinus.
Hi, can you make a honey from Maple Syrup?
no.
GardenFork You worded that response perfectly.
Thanks for the video. You've been very informative and direct as opposed to long-winded videos I've seen. Appreciate that very much!
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Did you notice the red maple leaf has a red stem? :-)
yes, but i'm not sure that's unique to the red maple, so i didn't point that out.
Why are your red maples green? I have red maples and they are a deep red almost purple. I would love to tap them just not sure we are looking at the same tree.
i believe there is a difference between the dark red maple, which is a decorative tree, and the one we call a red maple around here. thx!
Crimson King Maples are the burgundy leafed variety/ no fall color accept a brown dried leaf.
You are incorrect about Norway Maple. You can tap them and get sap.
Not as much sugar as a Sugar Maple but they will work.
I appreciate your content but maybe work on your SEO work because my question was totally unrelated to your video.
are you able to tap silver maples?
i've read where some people say you can, but I haven't tapped any. i don't have any near me. if you try it or find some info please let me know. thx!
Yes, I have 30 taps, about half red and half silver maples. My silvers produce more sap, but the sugar is a bit lower.
You can tap all maples with the exception of Japanese maple. Sugar maple is the standard tree, but silver maple and even Norway maple can be tapped, but you will be boiling a bit longer if you use them.
The Black Maple leaf and Sugar Maple leaf are so similar........
the430movie Im sure the back rock maple and what he is calling a sugar maple are one in the same
Time to go identify a stand of maple i have. I think theyre all red maple and not many over 12" diameter. Red is 50:1 iirc
red maple works, and easy to identify with the smaller leaf. and what else is there to do in winter?
Cool - we snowshoe, snowmobile, shovel. It's pretty much a season of S's.
you can use the snowmobile and a trailer to haul sap, here's how to use a turkey deep fryer to make maple syrup th-cam.com/video/OAmuFLz8Tek/w-d-xo.html
Cool. Yes I could, would have too really as the stand is a ways off. I have a turkey deep fryer...and a vacant filing cabinet too. ;) Thanks. kutgw.
What about silver maple?
we don't have any silvers near us, but ask around, someone may know more than I do on this question, thx!
I make 2-3 gallons of syrup every year tapping only red and silver maples. My silvers produce more sap, but the sugar content is a bit lower than the reds. Both are lower than sugar maples, but not that much and, in fact, there have been years when my sugar content has run comparable to sugar maples.
Steven Smith what about Norway maple?
Steven Smith never mind I totally forgot that the guy mentioned Norway maple already.
I can almost hear those trees screen when you rip their leaves off. Shame on you . shame
first?
yes you are! thx