I Planted this seedling about 10 years ago. It cost me $11 from Walmart .... now look at it . It also provides Maple sap to make a litre of maple syrup in the spring. Best $11 I ever spent.
I Planted this seedling about 10 years ago. It cost me $11 from Walmart .... now look at it . It also provides Maple sap to make a litre of maple syrup in the spring. Best $11 I ever spent.
Wow..Beutiful
Nice photo shar myvotes
Lovely autumn colors.
Could've grown from maple key for free. But it would be two years smaller than current size in that case
That is true.. but I had no Autumn Blaze keys .... I suppose I could have just gathered keys from a tree at the park
Love those autumn colors!!
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awesome! I am not in Canada anymore, but in Alberta, I don't think they would have grown.
It is a hybrid of red and silver maple that is very hardy .... almost nothing can kill them
to bad I didn't know it then - I would have grown one also. Had a mountain ash that took over the yard - my backyard looked like a jungle! A hiding place for mule deer!
Yes... the city plants these since they will grow almost anywhere
wow !! this is so gorgeous :)
Soo beautiful! I wish I had a garden so I could make my own maple syrup, how awesome :)
Nothing says Canada better! Not sure why that is... lol. How many liters of sap does it take to make a liter of syrup? I guess it would depend on how thick you like your syrup... But roughly? I have a mature maple in my yard, but I don't think it is a sugar maple. I think I could use it anyway. Do you buy your taps or do you make your own?
you can make your own taps from bamboo, sumac or a wood dowel. I made mine from the branches of a sumac tree. from 40 litres of sap you get one litre....
Q. How much maple sap does it take to make a gallon of Maple Syrup?
A. The amount of sap required to make a gallon of Maple Syrup depends on the sap's sugar content. If sap is 1% sugar it will take 86 gallons to make one gallon of Maple Syrup. At 2% sugar it will take 43 gallons to make one gallon of Maple Syrup. At Cloverdale Sugarhouse our Sugarbush tends to yield sap that is somewhere between 1% and 2% sugar. So we must process about 50 gallons of maple sap to produce one gallon of Maple Syrup. In a single day we can collect up to 12,000 gallons of maple sap!.........
that is a lovely tree!!