Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

rich6490 t1_j3fkfa8 wrote

Jesus, what a way to live life.

Where are maple trees going? I must have missed that one… 😂🤦‍♂️

Edit: Let me clarify my source because of the downvotes from Redditors who likely live in apartments in Portland with zero actual knowledge, I tap over a hundred trees per year on my own property in southern Maine with no issues. The number of people on Reddit who are “experts” in everything they know nothing about is sad.

−9

sjm294 t1_j3gedvf wrote

The trees aren’t leaving, the sap is

3

rich6490 t1_j3hyflw wrote

Please explain or cite a source with actual evidence beyond “well if it gets warmer sap will be gone!”

My source is I tap almost a hundred trees on my own property in Southern Maine, and know a dozen other people who also do. ZERO issues with sap production in recent years. Last year was actually excellent, I couldn’t keep up and plan to go to a vacuum system and larger evaporator.

2

Smitch250 t1_j3gzpfe wrote

Maple trees in CT still produce sap so I would think we still have 15 or so years before Maine is a barren wasteland for sap production except for northern maine. By 2050 Portland will have around the same weather as Baltimore has today.

1