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I remember where I was raised in the Finger Lakes we also had maple trees up and down our street.

Thanks for the maple tree ID info. Love you syrup!

Yummy yummy in the tummy! The song taste sweet to the ears too. I know where I'm going to.

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Sugar maple is preferred for syrup!

Here around Chicago, we also have the Norway maple, not native to the area, but planted extensively as street trees and in yards. They’ve fallen out of favor, for a few reasons - not the least of which is they hold their leaves until late November, so it’s getting very cold by the time they fall. My favorite tree is the sugar maple as well. Nothing is as calming and grand as a mature sugar maple in full October color.

That's kind of a bottling video. 😂I'm sure that's coming soon!

That looks amazing!!! I need some of that!

That looks so delicious

Yum😊

Just checked out your website..Light,Amber,Dark,Very dark ( which is very intriguing ) How do you establish the variances ?

Do you have many Black maples left in your part of New York? Down here in SE Ohio, Black maples were very common years ago and were some of the biggest trees left around here locally as I was growing up, and nowadays, they just aren't as numerous as they once were. I have not yet learned why they seemed to have been cut less than other species of maple locally. Upon reading period accounts from the years of first settlement before and after the Ohio Country achieved statehood, it was mentioned in two different journals of the large pure stands of Black maples that could be found in parts of the forest, usually adjacent to, and slightly intermixed with large, pure stands of Sugar maples. Of course , the forest had been drastically changed by my time, and I missed out on seeing that in the woods, except on the few tracts of land that had not been logged in quite a long time in my locality. Hybridization between Sugars and Blacks was(and probably still is)fairly common down this way, and may be a substantial reason as to why Black maples seem to be unfortunately disappearing locally. They are very close cousins to Sugars, usually carry the same amount of sugar, and, grain-wise are basically identical to Sugars, hard, tough and beautiful. The Black maple is yet another interesting member of a fascinating worldwide clan of trees.

My canopy is 80 ft.in the air Guess I'll have to wait for fall, or do you have a sure fire way to ID different maples purely by bark !!

Do you need an alligator grommet where the hydraulic hose passes thru the steel frame opening?

That is cool, can you tell us how you selected the hydraulic system components? keep up the good work

Very informative video. Thank you.

I look forward to your small scale operation. It is always interesting to see how others process their sap into syrup!

I searched for this video and thank you! Turns out I have seven sugar maple trees in my backyard. Now I have to learn to tap them before the winter. I live in Ohio, USA

Nice job

Very interesting. Thanks for the info!

Acer saccharum-sugar-Acer Rubrum-red-Acer saccharinum-silver. Also out west we have Acer macrophylum- the Big leaf or Oregon maple which can also be tapped-though not nearly as productive.

Really exceptional educational content. I have enjoyed this channel for a long time.

Great video. The only Maple tree that I would plant is the Sugar. In Illinois we also have Norway Maples. You can ID if you break a leaf off and there is white milk coming out. They are short lived weedy trees.

It is amazing how many do not know how to identify trees, my dad taught me this at a young age.

I’m going to check my trees, been tapping trees for a few years now and have no idea what kind they are. Purchased some of your maple syrup awhile ago and it’s delicious 👍

Awesome thanks for the video.

Great to see you again. God Bless

Be sure to buy their syrup, its very good.

Yesss thank you so much for this video! Appreciate it!

I failed the test about which tree you tap; I chose Red Oak... What can I say, we don't have maple trees here in Az. Fantastic video, I will be watching it again in order to try and remember how to tell them apart. Thanks!

As one of the people who requested this video, thank you for making it! Turns out there's a maple tree right outside my house. Based on your description here, it most closely matches the Silver Maple. Gonna have to go for a walk around our forested property to see if we can find a Sugar Maple. (We're in the north of Virginia.) 👍 Those seeds are super iconic. I always called them "helicopter seeds" for how they fell to the ground. 😅

When I was young I would take the helicopter seeds peel the end and pull the seed out and put them on my nose. That young woman is beautiful...

I just hope that there's one comment telling you how beautiful you are. Thanks for the information. I had no idea about different maple trees. Pretty cool actually.

Very Informative Nikki…. Thanks

We have mainly sugar maple here in northern Wisconsin. There’s rock maple here too. Nice upload 😊

excellent!

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Great video and talk. Best wishes

Awesome video Nikki! One of the simplest yet most informative videos your channel has! Thanks and happy sugaring!

Good video 😊 I can't wait to see your small scale maple production videos. Fun fact you can use the Maple seed pods as a turkey call. Place it in your mouth like a conventional mouth call and breathe across the blade using it like a reed. Takes some practice but it's effective. Taught to me by my grandfather who said his grandfather taught him.

Thank you ma’am.

Very impressive video, keep up the awesome work you do.

I live up in Lewis county. We always called them helicopters too!😂👍

You’re like a scientist

Great video Nikki. Thank you

Add a few gallons to slump up my guy …nobody needs to work that hard .

Yummy yummy for the tummy!

Look at that heart disease

The way you cut it though…why