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Hobby Maple Syrup Production
A basic guide to tapping trees, collecting sap, and boiling for beginners.
How deep do you tap?
An investigation into the impact of tap hole depth on tree health.
How do I Tap a Maple Tree?
University of Maine Cooperative Extension educator Kathy Hopkins discusses the best method to safely tap a maple tree.
How Many Taps?
Tapping guidelines written by state regulators haven’t always kept pace with changes in industry practices or understanding of the science of sap flow, and researchers are working to update tapping guidelines.
How to Tap a Maple Tree
This video demonstrates how to properly tap a maple tree.
How to Tap Maple Trees and Make Maple Syrup
A basic guide to tapping trees, collecting sap, and boiling on a small scale.
Improve Yield and Profits: Replace and clean taps and drops
Using new or clean taps and droplines has a significant impact on sap production.,
Increasing Syrup Production by Re-tapping During the Sap Season
Work done at the Uihlein Maple Research Forest in Lake Placid during the 2018 and 2019 maple syrup season looked at timing of tapping to best capture the most amount of sap. During this study it was found that trees tapped in late March did not yield as much syrup since they missed early sap runs. Trees tapped in January were able to capture early season sap runs but yield diminished slightly near the end of the season due to microbial plugging.
Increasing Syrup Production by Re-tapping Maples within the Sap Season
The feasibility of re-tapping maple trees during the sap season was tested in 2019 and 2020 at Cornell University’s Uihlein Maple Research Forest in Lake Placid, NY. This report summarizes that project.